Price Comparison
Surgery Center Price
$3,000-$6,000
Ambulatory / outpatient facility
Hospital Price
$8,000-$20,000
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 49505 (Inguinal hernia repair) in FairVisitHealth's price-transparency corpus.
Typical cash price
$5,361
Most fall between $4,559 and $6,226 (25th–75th percentile)
Based on 959 hospital-disclosed cash prices
Your negotiation target
$672
Median rate insurers actually pay for the same code
Across 35,910 insurer-negotiated rates — ask providers to match it
Surgeon/facility component. Anesthesia may be billed separately.
Source: FairVisitHealth analysis of 959 hospital-disclosed cash prices and 35,910 insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 49505, from CMS hospital price-transparency machine-readable files and insurer Transparency-in-Coverage files. Data as of July 2026.