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Cataract Surgery (with Lens Implant): cost by metro

Surgery & procedures · outpatient (same-day) · billed as CPT 66984 · priced across 22 metros

What does a Cataract Surgery (with Lens Implant) cost? Across 22 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a Cataract Surgery (CPT 66984) ranges from about $775 to $14,111 by metro, based on hospitals' own price-transparency files. Self-pay cash prices, where hospitals publish them, are often lower. Pick your metro for the local range and a hospital-by-hospital breakdown. These are price references from public data — not a quote, a bill, or medical or financial advice.

Cataract Surgery price by metro

The typical insurer-negotiated price for a Cataract Surgery, by metro — lowest first. Open a metro for the full three-level breakdown and every hospital.

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
Detroit, MI $775 $10–$2,022 —
Cleveland, OH $2,183 $2,114–$2,183 —
Pittsburgh, PA $2,283 $603–$2,392 —
Milwaukee, WI $2,306 $2,238–$3,914 —
Tampa, FL $2,555 $2,531–$3,205 —
St. Louis, MO $2,644 $1,944–$3,234 $5,615
Riverside, CA $2,771 $1,005–$5,713 —
Sacramento, CA $2,896 $2,896 $8,624
San Francisco, CA $2,896 $2,896 $8,624
San Jose, CA $3,441 $2,896–$14,719 —
Phoenix, AZ $3,585 $3,585–$6,791 —
New York, NY $3,814 $3,605–$5,880 $4,595
Austin, TX $3,840 $1,456–$12,483 —
Houston, TX $4,010 $3,488–$4,185 —
Dallas, TX $4,170 $774–$4,589 —
Seattle, WA $4,796 $623–$6,207 —
Nashville, TN $5,111 $3,374–$5,399 —
Kansas City, MO $6,700 $5,620–$7,262 —
Denver, CO $7,174 $524–$9,611 —
Hartford, CT $7,723 $2,727–$8,861 —
Chicago, IL $7,905 $7,905 —
Virginia Beach, VA $14,111 $9,956–$14,111 —

Source: hospitals' own machine-readable Standard Charges files, published under the U.S. Hospital Price Transparency rule (45 CFR §180.50). Most recent hospital file in this dataset: July 2026. Prices are references, not quotes or bills, and never medical or financial advice — where a hospital reports no price, nothing is shown rather than a guess.

About Cataract Surgery pricing

A Cataract Surgery is billed as CPT 66984 and is usually a outpatient (same-day) service. Prices vary widely by metro and by hospital, which is why every figure here is tied to a specific hospital's own published file. 4 of these 22 metros have at least one hospital publishing a self-pay cash price.

The chargemaster (list) price is the hospital's undiscounted sticker rate. Almost no one actually pays it — insurers negotiate it down and self-pay patients are usually offered the cash price — but it shows how large the discount off list can be.

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