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Laparoscopic Appendectomy (Appendix Removal): cost by metro

Surgery & procedures · outpatient or inpatient · billed as CPT 44970 · priced across 26 metros

What does a Laparoscopic Appendectomy (Appendix Removal) cost? Across 26 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a Appendectomy (CPT 44970) ranges from about $642 to $29,398 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.

Appendectomy price by metro

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

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
Detroit, MI $642 $10–$4,834 —
Indianapolis, IN $1,220 $414–$4,471 —
Philadelphia, PA $3,494 $297–$5,370 —
Phoenix, AZ $3,669 $3,043–$7,116 —
San Jose, CA $5,024 $2,027–$7,407 —
Milwaukee, WI $5,779 $1,516–$11,037 —
Cincinnati, OH $6,009 $5,891–$8,125 $19,169
Pittsburgh, PA $6,063 $5,840–$6,384 —
St. Louis, MO $6,182 $5,697–$6,957 $11,810
Houston, TX $6,186 $5,454–$6,217 —
Riverside, CA $6,286 $273–$7,090 —
Kansas City, MO $6,461 $1,635–$10,961 —
Nashville, TN $6,489 $2,465–$7,380 —
Tampa, FL $6,692 $6,660–$6,735 —
Hartford, CT $7,032 $159–$7,089 —
Austin, TX $7,120 $2,240–$9,426 —
Sacramento, CA $7,407 $7,407 $22,680
San Francisco, CA $7,407 $7,407 $22,680
New York, NY $7,498 $6,776–$7,726 $35,959
Denver, CO $7,593 $580–$12,739 —
Memphis, TN $8,602 $8,602 —
Dallas, TX $10,281 $5,360–$17,684 —
Seattle, WA $10,671 $1,562–$12,951 —
Cleveland, OH $13,419 $562–$15,523 $17,445
Chicago, IL $16,965 $16,965 —
Virginia Beach, VA $29,398 $6,448–$29,398 —

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 Appendectomy pricing

A Appendectomy is billed as CPT 44970 and is usually a outpatient or inpatient 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. 6 of these 26 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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