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I get appendicitis

Same-day (outpatient) appendectomy — now how most uncomplicated appendicitis is treated.

Typical US price before insurance

$11,593

$8,251typical range$16,191

This is an allowed amount — the price actually negotiated with insurers, not the inflated list price. Source: Health Care Cost Institute — HealthPrices.org (2021–2022 vintage (HCCI does not publish the exact data year)).

This is the OUTPATIENT bundle: facility fee $9,790, surgeon $894, anesthesia $714. If you are admitted overnight it costs considerably more — the last published inpatient figure was $23,385 (Peterson-KFF, 2018). We show the outpatient number because that is now the typical path, and we will not silently pass one off as the other.

What Medicare pays for the same care $6,188

Private insurers pay 1.9× what Medicare pays for this.

All-in: $5,610 to the hospital plus $578 to the doctor (OPPS/APC, 2024). Divide the two figures above and you get our ratio — check our arithmetic. Source: CMS.

What you'd actually pay

Your coverage

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Where you live

Your state

$11,593

The national average price.

State prices from RAND's hospital price study — how much your state's hospitals charge private insurers relative to Medicare. This is a statewide price level, not a per-procedure state price. Maryland isn't shown: it sets hospital rates for all payers, so the comparison doesn't apply there.

This is an estimate, not a bill. It applies published average deductibles and a 20% coinsurance (KFF's measured average for a hospital admission) to a national average price. Your actual plan, hospital and diagnosis will move this number. Not medical or financial advice.