# Abscess drainage in GA

Billing code `10060`. Prices for this code at 113 hospitals in GA, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/abscess-drainage

HC DRAIN SKIN ABSCESS SIMPLE

**Where this is done matters more than which hospital:** Abscess drainage is a procedure a doctor's office can perform, and Medicare pays about 2.4x more for it at a hospital outpatient department than in an office. Every price below is a hospital's, and excludes the doctor's separate bill. Do not quote these as the cost of the procedure without saying which setting they describe.

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 1 publish a physician fee; 43 publish a facility charge; 10 publish both, mixed together; 59 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $139 |
| Typical | $316 |
| Dearest tenth | $2,076 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 15-fold difference for the same billing code -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS | 1/5 | see split | $596 | $47 | $2,189 | $26 | $9,990 | 3,174 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD | not rated | $53 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $124 | $51 | $181 | 13 |
| Liberty Regional Medical Center | HINESVILLE | not rated | $58 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $455 | $30 | $425 | 18 |
| Taylor Regional Hospital | HAWKINSVILLE | not rated | see split | $36 | $105 | $295 | $20 | $105 | 18 |
| Bacon County Hospital | ALMA | not rated | $69 | not mentioned | $69 | $312 | $67 | $189 | 36 |
| Jasper Memorial Hospital | MONTICELLO | not rated | $85 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $112 | $54 | $322 | 57 |
| Burke Medical Center | WAYNESBORO | not rated | $88 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $0 | $0 | $176 | 10 |
| Jefferson Hospital | LOUISVILLE | not rated | $92 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $81 | $59 | $126 | 80 |
| Jeff Davis Hospital | HAZLEHURST | not rated | $106 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $147 | $32 | $324 | 95 |
| Chatuge Regional Hospital | HIAWASSEE | not rated | $110 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $104 | $46 | $177 | 18 |
| Putnam General Hospital | EATONTON | not rated | $132 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $158 | $79 | $268 | 37 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center | CEDARTOWN | not rated | $138 | $138 | not mentioned | $184 | $48 | $8,343 | 72 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | see split | $167 | $116 | $115 | $48 | $2,120 | 55 |
| Bleckley Memorial Hospital | COCHRAN | not rated | $150 | $150 | not mentioned | $81 | $107 | $213 | 5 |
| Optim Medical Center - Screven | SYLVANIA | not rated | $178 | $178 | not mentioned | $8,722 | $176 | $264 | 12 |
| Dodge County Hospital | EASTMAN | not rated | $179 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $53 | $2,800 | 24 |
| SGMC Health Lanier | LAKELAND | not rated | $179 | $179 | not mentioned | $602 | $176 | $264 | 3 |
| Monroe County Hospital | FORSYTH | not rated | $184 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $71 | $53 | $355 | 25 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $185 | $185 | not mentioned | not published | $176 | $308 | 7 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | see split | $774 | $120 | $634 | $67 | $9,684 | 332 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $195 | $173 | $314 | $47 | $14,395 | 390 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $191 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $58 | $2,723 | 32 |
| Union General Hospital | BLAIRSVILLE | 3/5 | $192 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $174 | $49 | $297 | 34 |
| SGMC Health | VALDOSTA | 2/5 | $192 | $192 | not mentioned | $602 | $139 | $227 | 12 |
| Dorminy Medical Center | FITZGERALD | not rated | $197 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $127 | $124 | $525 | 52 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $715 | $103 | $464 | $98 | $5,479 | 51 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $1,217 | $90 | $2,797 | $50 | $4,275 | 87 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $203 | $203 | not mentioned | not published | $193 | $338 | 7 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $206 | $206 | not mentioned | $4,309 | $200 | $220 | 25 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $206 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $200 | $190 | $1,463 | 41 |
| SGMC Berrien Campus | NASHVILLE | not rated | $210 | $210 | not mentioned | $602 | $175 | $262 | 9 |
| Memorial Hospital and Manor | BAINBRIDGE | 1/5 | $218 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $449 | $79 | $881 | 145 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $218 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $240 | $48 | $50,000 | 356 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $218 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $240 | $40 | $50,000 | 356 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $218 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $750 | $85 | $1,245 | 150 |
| Emanuel Medical Center | SWAINSBORO | 4/5 | $223 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $234 | $36 | $1,632 | 53 |
| Stephens County Hospital | TOCCOA | 2/5 | $230 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $900 | $99 | $1,350 | 40 |
| Flint River Community Hospital | MONTEZUMA | not rated | $235 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $243 | $98 | $270 | 17 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $236 | $236 | not mentioned | $1,153 | $187 | $1,727 | 6 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $241 | $241 | not mentioned | $227 | $68 | $8,343 | 76 |
| Wills Memorial Hospital | WASHINGTON | not rated | $241 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $267 | $237 | $325 | 14 |
| Appling Healthcare | BAXLEY | not rated | $242 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $225 | $187 | $1,100 | 10 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus | SAINT MARYS | 4/5 | $249 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $67 | $352 | 64 |
| Elbert Memorial Hospital | ELBERTON | not rated | $253 | $253 | not mentioned | $280 | $183 | $509 | 12 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus | BRUNSWICK | 2/5 | $256 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $67 | $352 | 64 |
| Donalsonville Hospital | DONALSONVILLE | not rated | $266 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $298 | $130 | $298 | 9 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | see split | $325 | $173 | $314 | $95 | $11,238 | 121 |
| Mountain Lakes Medical Center | CLAYTON | not rated | $270 | $270 | not mentioned | $154 | $214 | $750 | 9 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $271 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $206 | $104 | $2,204 | 30 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $283 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $240 | $67 | $50,000 | 219 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $283 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $240 | $67 | $50,000 | 220 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $283 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $240 | $67 | $50,000 | 221 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $286 | $286 | not mentioned | $726 | $180 | $4,840 | 12 |
| Wayne Memorial Hospital | JESUP | 3/5 | $293 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $192 | $236 | $346 | 18 |
| Crisp Regional Hospital | CORDELE | 2/5 | see split | $294 | $294 | $562 | $244 | $319 | 12 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $306 | $306 | not mentioned | $1,153 | $200 | $1,727 | 9 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $316 | $316 | not mentioned | $795 | $176 | $3,391 | 20 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $596 | $123 | $458 | $98 | $5,756 | 122 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $365 | $365 | not mentioned | $795 | $197 | $3,391 | 13 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $367 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $434 | $70 | $434 | 132 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $372 | $372 | not mentioned | $795 | $201 | $3,391 | 13 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA | not rated | $378 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $551 | $230 | $551 | 84 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA | not rated | $378 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $551 | $235 | $551 | 84 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $379 | $379 | not mentioned | $1,689 | $115 | $7,987 | 41 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $385 | $385 | not mentioned | $795 | $202 | $3,391 | 12 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $388 | $388 | not mentioned | $795 | $204 | $3,391 | 12 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $388 | $388 | not mentioned | $795 | $204 | $3,391 | 12 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $388 | $388 | not mentioned | $795 | $204 | $3,391 | 12 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $388 | $388 | not mentioned | $795 | $204 | $3,391 | 12 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON | not rated | $429 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $429 | $900 | 7 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $440 | $440 | not mentioned | not published | $116 | $2,117 | 15 |
| Evans Memorial Hospital | CLAXTON | not rated | $450 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $111 | $2,263 | 52 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA | 3/5 | $563 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $563 | $204 | $873 | 17 |
| Clinch Memorial Hospital | HOMERVILLE | not rated | $698 | $698 | not mentioned | $761 | $142 | $1,523 | 78 |
| University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center | THOMSON | not rated | $856 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $645 | $347 | $1,934 | 19 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $920 | $920 | not mentioned | $189 | $121 | $2,548 | 20 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $920 | $920 | not mentioned | $189 | $121 | $2,548 | 20 |
| Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA | 2/5 | $946 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $645 | $85 | $2,149 | 24 |
| Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center | LAVONIA | 3/5 | $966 | $966 | not mentioned | $1,328 | $54 | $1,432 | 199 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $1,308 | $1,308 | not mentioned | $795 | $565 | $3,391 | 5 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $1,322 | $1,322 | not mentioned | $1,422 | $209 | $3,185 | 13 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $1,462 | $1,462 | not mentioned | $4,609 | $201 | $4,840 | 16 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS | 2/5 | $1,483 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $645 | $311 | $2,149 | 20 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $1,708 | $1,708 | not mentioned | $584 | $1,626 | $2,288 | 3 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS | 5/5 | $1,708 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $645 | $250 | $2,149 | 19 |
| Piedmont Mountainside Hospital | JASPER | 4/5 | $1,781 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $303 | $2,369 | 17 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE | 4/5 | $1,826 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $250 | $2,509 | 17 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE | 2/5 | $1,888 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $544 | $2,787 | 18 |
| Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center | CARTERSVILLE | 3/5 | $1,895 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $328 | $2,787 | 19 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $1,951 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $256 | $2,787 | 17 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS | 4/5 | $1,951 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $297 | $2,787 | 19 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $1,951 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $191 | $2,787 | 17 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS | 3/5 | $1,951 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $336 | $2,787 | 18 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $1,956 | $1,956 | not mentioned | $442 | $176 | $10,045 | 10 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE | 2/5 | $1,993 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $236 | $2,787 | 18 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $1,993 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $318 | $2,787 | 18 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE | 3/5 | $1,993 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $257 | $2,787 | 18 |
| Piedmont Newnan Hospital | NEWNAN | 4/5 | $1,993 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $263 | $2,787 | 18 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON | 3/5 | $2,035 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $836 | $272 | $2,787 | 17 |
| Optim Medical Center - Tattnall | REIDSVILLE | not rated | $2,041 | $2,041 | not mentioned | $8,722 | $2,041 | $2,041 | 1 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $2,076 | $2,076 | not mentioned | $4,609 | $201 | $4,840 | 18 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $2,076 | $2,076 | not mentioned | $4,609 | $204 | $4,840 | 18 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $2,076 | $2,076 | not mentioned | $4,609 | $201 | $4,840 | 18 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $2,076 | $2,076 | not mentioned | $4,609 | $204 | $4,840 | 18 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $2,076 | $2,076 | not mentioned | $4,609 | $204 | $4,840 | 18 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $2,122 | $2,122 | not mentioned | $442 | $201 | $10,045 | 9 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $2,122 | $2,122 | not mentioned | $442 | $208 | $10,045 | 9 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $2,122 | $2,122 | not mentioned | $442 | $197 | $10,045 | 9 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $2,374 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $500 | $7,512 | 209 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $2,550 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $500 | $16,800 | 133 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $2,595 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $500 | $7,512 | 195 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $3,633 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $500 | $7,512 | 227 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $4,289 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $500 | $7,512 | 166 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 42 of the 99 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 57 it is higher.

7 of these 113 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Jefferson Hospital, Jeff Davis Hospital, Monroe County Hospital, Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus, Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus, Donalsonville Hospital, Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-28; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.