# Groin hernia repair, age 5 and over in GA

Billing code `49505`. Prices for this code at 67 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/groin-hernia-repair-age-5-and-over

HC Repr Hernia Ing Init >=5yr Bl (Restricted Method II CAH)

## 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; 35 publish a facility charge; 10 publish both, mixed together; 21 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $1,250 |
| Typical | $3,547 |
| Dearest tenth | $7,481 |

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 6-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 | $10,644 | $63 | $23,273 | $25 | $10,644 | 11,974 |
| St Marys Good Samaritan Hospital | GREENSBORO | 4/5 | see split | $3 | $182 | $23,131 | $2 | $2,083 | 7,433 |
| Bacon County Hospital | ALMA | not rated | $375 | not mentioned | $375 | $500 | $364 | $3,357 | 9 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $3,923 | $424 | not published | $58 | $6,850 | 135 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | see split | $3,528 | $502 | not published | $364 | $8,401 | 141 |
| Jefferson Hospital | LOUISVILLE | not rated | $765 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $678 | $496 | $1,051 | 40 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $1,146 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $92 | $4,993 | 16 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $1,320 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,200 | $241 | $50,000 | 334 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $1,320 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,200 | $202 | $50,000 | 334 |
| Optim Medical Center - Tattnall | REIDSVILLE | not rated | $1,330 | $1,330 | not mentioned | $17,443 | $1,330 | $1,330 | 1 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $1,521 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,200 | $364 | $50,000 | 213 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | see split | $4,432 | $603 | $3,632 | $510 | $6,756 | 56 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $1,577 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,200 | $364 | $50,000 | 214 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $1,633 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,200 | $364 | $50,000 | 215 |
| Taylor Regional Hospital | HAWKINSVILLE | not rated | see split | $1,739 | $705 | $9,335 | $506 | $3,672 | 14 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Center | BLUE RIDGE | not rated | $1,750 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $6,012 | $913 | $13,806 | 66 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON | not rated | $2,400 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,400 | $3,745 | 9 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $2,570 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,570 | $382 | $5,844 | 44 |
| Dodge County Hospital | EASTMAN | not rated | $2,852 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $100 | $5,599 | 12 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $3,132 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,660 | $8,682 | 187 |
| Optim Medical Center - Screven | SYLVANIA | not rated | $3,169 | $3,169 | not mentioned | $17,443 | $3,138 | $4,706 | 18 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | see split | $3,281 | $739 | not published | $491 | $8,224 | 21 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $3,279 | $3,279 | not mentioned | not published | $639 | $7,844 | 16 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $3,294 | $3,294 | not mentioned | not published | $3,138 | $5,491 | 7 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $3,324 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $167 | $7,726 | 21 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $3,349 | $3,349 | not mentioned | not published | $1,623 | $8,528 | 24 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $3,349 | $3,349 | not mentioned | not published | $1,623 | $8,528 | 24 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $3,367 | $3,367 | not mentioned | not published | $3,093 | $6,607 | 8 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $3,439 | $3,439 | not mentioned | not published | $1,927 | $6,877 | 15 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $4,261 | $639 | $3,618 | $501 | $6,729 | 59 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $3,442 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,660 | $8,059 | 207 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $5,056 | $564 | $3,560 | $501 | $7,667 | 52 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $3,515 | $3,515 | not mentioned | not published | $3,207 | $7,870 | 13 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $3,547 | $3,547 | not mentioned | not published | $3,378 | $11,923 | 3 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $3,564 | $3,564 | not mentioned | not published | $1,402 | $7,208 | 11 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $3,574 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $3,573 | $1,052 | $7,452 | 41 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $3,621 | $3,621 | not mentioned | not published | $3,449 | $6,036 | 7 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $3,752 | $3,752 | not mentioned | $11,016 | $3,574 | $6,665 | 15 |
| Evans Memorial Hospital | CLAXTON | not rated | $4,059 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $2,164 | $12,316 | 26 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $4,384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $2,108 | $22,050 | 130 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $4,393 | $4,393 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $11,415 | 22 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $4,531 | $4,531 | not mentioned | not published | $3,108 | $12,756 | 13 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $4,817 | $4,817 | not mentioned | $8,568 | $3,515 | $7,870 | 17 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $5,153 | $5,153 | not mentioned | $8,568 | $3,515 | $7,870 | 19 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $5,153 | $5,153 | not mentioned | $8,568 | $3,515 | $7,870 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $5,153 | $5,153 | not mentioned | $8,568 | $3,515 | $7,870 | 19 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $5,153 | $5,153 | not mentioned | $8,568 | $3,515 | $7,870 | 19 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $5,153 | $5,153 | not mentioned | $8,568 | $3,515 | $7,870 | 19 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $5,421 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $7,058 | $2,966 | $11,716 | 25 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $5,633 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $2,108 | $8,224 | 218 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $6,095 | $6,095 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $13,710 | 14 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $6,104 | $6,104 | not mentioned | $15,349 | $501 | $48,321 | 41 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $6,213 | $6,213 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $13,686 | 14 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $6,271 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $2,365 | $8,059 | 160 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $6,343 | $6,343 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $13,687 | 13 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $6,389 | $6,389 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $13,859 | 13 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $6,389 | $6,389 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $13,652 | 13 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $6,389 | $6,389 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $13,652 | 13 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $6,389 | $6,389 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $14,181 | 13 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $7,418 | $7,418 | not mentioned | not published | $2,323 | $12,372 | 6 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $7,586 | $739 | not published | $491 | $15,152 | 21 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $7,680 | $7,680 | not mentioned | not published | $2,438 | $21,668 | 10 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA | 3/5 | $10,025 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $10,025 | $3,632 | $15,539 | 17 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $12,066 | $12,066 | not mentioned | not published | $3,523 | $21,668 | 9 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $12,066 | $12,066 | not mentioned | not published | $3,715 | $21,668 | 9 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $12,066 | $12,066 | not mentioned | not published | $3,591 | $21,668 | 9 |
| Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center | LAVONIA | 3/5 | $17,246 | $17,246 | not mentioned | $14,402 | $3,075 | $17,246 | 91 |

## 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 8 of the 29 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 21 it is higher.

## 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 is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

2 of these 67 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, Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

## Others in digestive health

- [Upper endoscopy (EGD) with biopsy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/upper-endoscopy-egd-with-biopsy) -- 92 hospitals, typically $2,106
- [Upper endoscopy (EGD), diagnostic](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/upper-endoscopy-egd-diagnostic) -- 92 hospitals, typically $1,786
- [Colonoscopy with biopsy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-with-biopsy) -- 90 hospitals, typically $2,246
- [Colonoscopy with polyp removal (snare)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-with-polyp-removal-snare) -- 90 hospitals, typically $2,246
- [Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/gallbladder-removal-laparoscopic) -- 69 hospitals, typically $5,799
- [Colonoscopy, diagnostic](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-diagnostic) -- 68 hospitals, typically $1,746
- [Colonoscopy with ultrasound](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/colonoscopy-with-ultrasound) -- 63 hospitals, typically $3,011
- [Tonsil and adenoid removal, under age 12](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/tonsil-and-adenoid-removal-under-age-12) -- 53 hospitals, typically $5,997

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Every procedure with a published price in GA: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga
Prices that look wrong: info@clearcharge.org

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.