How much does an inguinal (groin) hernia repair cost in the US?

Across 876 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $3,625, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $2,302 and $4,582. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $3,660 across the 433 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.

Why do Inguinal Hernia Repair prices vary so much?

Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 11.4 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $773 in Idaho to $6,844 in Virginia.

Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?

Sometimes. At 121 of the 433 hospitals that list a cash price (28%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.

What is the Medicare rate shown here?

$3,658 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 1.0 times it.

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Inguinal Hernia Repair Cost in the US (2026): What 876 Hospitals NegotiatedNPI VERIFIED

Across 876 US hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate for an inguinal (groin) hernia repair is $3,625 — 1.0× the Medicare outpatient rate of $3,658. The middle half of hospitals negotiated between $2,302 and $4,582; the priciest tenth negotiated more than $7,642, 11.4× the cheapest tenth (under $671). Hospitals that list a self-pay price ask a median of $3,660 (433 hospitals).

Code CPT 49505 · Source: hospital machine-readable files (45 CFR §180), file dates 2022-11-12 to 2026-09-14 (median 2026-04-01) · Medicare baseline: CMS OPPS Addendum B, July 2026 · Data extracted 2026-10-06 · Page updated 2026-10-07

National median

$3,625

all plan types · 876 hospitals

Middle half

$2,302–$4,582

25th–75th percentile of hospitals

Median cash price

$3,660

self-pay · 433 hospitals list one

Medicare baseline

$3,658

CMS OPPS national · July 2026

876 hospitals, one bar per price band

median $3,625Medicare $3,658

$0$5,000$10,000

Each bar counts hospitals whose median rate falls in that price band; the last, dashed bar holds the 36 at $10,000 or more. The cheapest tenth negotiated under $671, the priciest tenth over $7,642 — 11.4× apart for the same procedure.

These are contract reference rates, not your bill. A median across hospitals is not a quote for your plan or network. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network status.

This is the hospital's facility fee for the outpatient procedure. The surgeon and anesthesia are billed separately.

Coverage: 876 of the 5,419 hospitals in the CMS roster have an identity-verified price file with this procedure in our data. It is not a random sample, and a hospital missing here has not been judged non-compliant — we may simply not have its file yet. 48 of these 876 hospital files were more than 12 months old at extraction — hospitals must update yearly; we keep the figures and say so rather than hide them.

By insurance type

Insurance type	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare
Commercial (plan type not stated)	476	$5,289	$2,176 – $8,770	1.4×
PPO	496	$5,435	$3,534 – $9,716	1.5×
HMO	337	$5,016	$3,275 – $8,080	1.4×
EPO	59	$5,906	$3,533 – $7,870	1.6×
POS	42	$3,601	$3,257 – $6,761	1.0×
ACA Marketplace	331	$5,351	$3,764 – $6,741	1.5×
Medicare Advantage	461	$3,420	$1,343 – $3,790	0.9×
Medicare (as listed)	493	$3,611	$3,275 – $3,894	1.0×
Medicaid	474	$2,230	$1,011 – $3,250	0.6×
Workers' comp	61	$4,605	$1,141 – $6,069	1.3×

Plan types are grouped from each hospital's plan names. Each figure is a median of hospital-level medians; types with fewer than 20 hospitals are left out.

By state

State	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare	Median cash
Alabama	11	$3,207	$3,104 – $3,375	0.9×	$8,358
Arizona	11	$2,308	$2,308 – $3,034	0.6×	$5,194
Arkansas	12	$3,143	$540 – $3,560	0.9×	$4,423
California	38	$4,582	$4,190 – $6,128	1.3×	$4,582
Colorado	5	$2,991	$883 – $5,425	0.8×	$1,333
Florida	35	$3,926	$3,848 – $3,963	1.1×	$2,171
Georgia	21	$6,095	$3,515 – $6,389	1.7×	$15,349
Hawaii	7	$3,493	$3,458 – $4,075	1.0×	$414
Idaho	12	$773	$458 – $7,262	0.2×	$1,501
Illinois	29	$3,837	$2,738 – $4,418	1.0×	$2,562
Indiana	18	$4,546	$2,004 – $9,147	1.2×	$3,942
Iowa	30	$1,062	$871 – $2,048	0.3×	$1,453
Kansas	30	$2,484	$505 – $4,246	0.7×	$2,895
Kentucky	24	$3,416	$2,527 – $4,488	0.9×	$995
Louisiana	18	$3,218	$836 – $3,748	0.9×	$1,870
Maine	6	$2,385	$797 – $3,962	0.7×	$1,302
Massachusetts	6	$4,032	$3,701 – $5,049	1.1×	$11,161
Michigan	24	$2,654	$1,930 – $3,746	0.7×	$5,205
Minnesota	23	$3,529	$3,278 – $3,706	1.0×	$1,115
Mississippi	14	$3,366	$3,194 – $4,259	0.9×	$6,856
Missouri	30	$3,439	$1,565 – $3,640	0.9×	$6,378
Montana	7	$896	$719 – $2,728	0.2×	$1,583
Nebraska	22	$3,229	$822 – $3,668	0.9×	$3,863
New Hampshire	6	$5,421	$4,396 – $6,268	1.5×	—
New Jersey	19	$5,115	$4,028 – $5,875	1.4×	$4,996
New Mexico	12	$3,858	$3,646 – $6,668	1.1×	$2,887
New York	33	$4,176	$3,635 – $4,538	1.1×	$4,469
North Carolina	16	$3,426	$3,323 – $3,523	0.9×	$7,790
North Dakota	6	$1,691	$1,038 – $3,288	0.5×	$1,432
Ohio	50	$3,753	$3,372 – $7,642	1.0×	$10,552
Oklahoma	24	$3,564	$3,143 – $5,358	1.0×	$7,195
Oregon	18	$5,365	$3,239 – $8,830	1.5×	$2,590
Pennsylvania	43	$3,451	$3,212 – $3,845	0.9×	$3,522
South Carolina	13	$5,178	$3,289 – $10,702	1.4×	$1,926
South Dakota	6	$3,433	$2,471 – $8,567	0.9×	$3,720
Tennessee	16	$3,384	$3,368 – $3,551	0.9×	$4,768
Texas	84	$3,600	$3,087 – $4,128	1.0×	$4,299
Utah	12	$3,698	$3,625 – $3,770	1.0×	—
Vermont	6	$2,490	$1,178 – $3,469	0.7×	$1,157
Virginia	15	$6,844	$4,596 – $8,661	1.9×	$5,250
Washington	15	$1,236	$542 – $4,640	0.3×	$1,272
West Virginia	5	$2,285	$405 – $3,529	0.6×	$9,187
Wisconsin	26	$5,523	$1,724 – $8,402	1.5×	$1,235
Wyoming	6	$2,994	$2,240 – $3,489	0.8×	$2,902

middle half of hospitalsstate medianMedicare rate · a dotted end means the range runs past $10,000

States with at least 5 hospitals in our data (44 states). 6 smaller states are counted in the national figures but not listed — a median of two or three hospitals says more about those hospitals than about the state.

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Hospital-level and insurer-level rates for this procedure are in the full dataset. A free three-procedure sample (brain MRI, head CT, diagnostic colonoscopy) is open under CC BY 4.0: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23199844 · Kaggle.

Frequently asked questions

How much does an inguinal (groin) hernia repair cost in the US?: Across 876 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $3,625, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $2,302 and $4,582. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $3,660 across the 433 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.
Why do Inguinal Hernia Repair prices vary so much?: Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 11.4 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $773 in Idaho to $6,844 in Virginia.
Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?: Sometimes. At 121 of the 433 hospitals that list a cash price (28%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.
What is the Medicare rate shown here?: $3,658 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 1.0 times it.

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