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Groin hernia repair, age 5 and over — Athens, GA (code 49505)
6 hospitals reporting, within 35 miles of Athens · printed
https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/athens/groin-hernia-repair-age-5-and-over

Groin hernia repair, age 5 and over in Athens, GA49505

Prp i/hern init reduc >5 yr

Lowest reported
$88
Typical
$2,400
Highest reported
$12,066

Across 6 hospitals within 35 miles of Athens that publish a negotiated price for this code. Each hospital's figure is the middle of the rates it publishes across its own insurance plans, so the spread within one hospital is often wider than the gap between two. A hospital whose published address is a PO box is placed at its city centre, so a distance shown for it is approximate.

Two different kinds of price are mixed together below. 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. For this code, 2 hospitals publish a facility charge, 2 hospitals publish both, mixed together, and 2 hospitals do not say which. A physician fee is typically a small fraction of the hospital charge, so a much lower number here usually means it is measuring less, not that the hospital is cheaper. Unlabelled does not mean it is the hospital charge — some hospitals publish a physician fee without saying so, and nothing in the data distinguishes them.
Hospital Typical Hospital’s own chargefacility Doctor’s chargeprofessional Self-paycash price Lowest Highest Plans on file
St Mary's Hospital
ATHENS · 0.0 mi · ★1/5
Facility & physician mixed 		see split → $10,644 $63 $23,273 $25 $10,644 11,974
St Marys Good Samaritan Hospital
GREENSBORO · 29.6 mi · ★4/5
Facility & physician mixed 		see split → $3 $182 $23,131 $2 $2,083 7,433
Northside Hospital Gwinnett
LAWRENCEVILLE · 28.8 mi · ★3/5
$1,320 not mentioned not mentioned $1,200 $241 $50,000 334
Morgan Medical Center
MADISON · 24.6 mi · not rated
$2,400 not mentioned not mentioned not published $1,400 $3,745 9
NGMC Barrow
WINDER · 16.3 mi · ★4/5
Facility fee only 		$12,066 $12,066 not mentioned not published $3,591 $21,668 9
Northeast Georgia Medical Center
GAINESVILLE · 34.5 mi · ★3/5
Facility fee only 		$12,066 $12,066 not mentioned not published $3,523 $21,668 9

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance — the number to use if you have no coverage, or if this hospital is out of network. Paying self-pay usually doesn’t count toward your deductible, so it can cost less for this one service and more across a full year, if you’d have met your deductible anyway. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what you would.

At 1 of the 3 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price, it is lower than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer — so it is worth asking for, in writing, at those. At the other 2 it is higher. Either way it is worth asking whether you qualify for financial assistance, which is a different thing and often a much larger discount.

The doctor’s side, roughly. Nationally, Medicare allows about $662 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 770 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above, and it is not added to any figure on this page — it is a Medicare average, not this hospital’s charge and not your plan’s rate, so combining them would produce a total no source states. It is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.
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These are prices the hospitals published themselves, as required by the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50). They are the hospital's share only — the surgeon, anesthesiologist and radiologist usually bill separately and do not appear in any hospital file, so treat every figure here as part of a total rather than the total. What you actually pay also depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.