Price Comparison
Surgery Center Price
$1,500-$3,200
Ambulatory / outpatient facility
Hospital Price
$3,200-$6,500
Inpatient hospital facility
Real prices from our database
Not an estimate. These figures come from actual hospital-disclosed cash prices and insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 66984 (Cataract surgery with lens implant) in FairVisitHealth's price-transparency corpus.
Typical cash price
$1,652
Most fall between $1,380 and $2,933 (25th–75th percentile)
Based on 145 hospital-disclosed cash prices
Your negotiation target
$736
Median rate insurers actually pay for the same code
Across 35,503 insurer-negotiated rates — ask providers to match it
Per eye. Anesthesia and premium lenses may be billed separately.
Source: FairVisitHealth analysis of 145 hospital-disclosed cash prices and 35,503 insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 66984, from CMS hospital price-transparency machine-readable files and insurer Transparency-in-Coverage files. Data as of July 2026. Smaller sample — treat as indicative.