# Prostate removal with lymph nodes (keyhole surgery) in GA

Billing code `55866`. Prices for this code at 50 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/prostate-removal-with-lymph-nodes-keyhole-surgery

Laparo radical prostatectomy

## 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, 33 publish a facility charge; 4 publish both, mixed together; 13 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $7,662 |
| Typical | $10,928 |
| Dearest tenth | $17,263 |

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 2-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $10,359 | $634 | not published | $187 | $19,164 | 97 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | see split | $5,681 | $1,353 | not published | $1,297 | $5,681 | 20 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $10,144 | $1,184 | not published | $1,128 | $12,049 | 29 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $10,144 | $1,353 | not published | $1,128 | $10,347 | 34 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $7,512 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $33,600 | 99 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $7,679 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $24,891 | 138 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $9,315 | $9,315 | not mentioned | not published | $2,145 | $23,288 | 13 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $9,385 | $9,385 | not mentioned | not published | $1,880 | $25,319 | 18 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $9,385 | $9,385 | not mentioned | not published | $1,880 | $25,319 | 18 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $9,688 | $9,688 | not mentioned | not published | $9,315 | $29,417 | 6 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $9,781 | $9,781 | not mentioned | not published | $9,315 | $16,301 | 7 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $9,808 | $9,808 | not mentioned | not published | $5,730 | $20,187 | 11 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $9,820 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $167 | $22,794 | 18 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $10,144 | $10,144 | not mentioned | not published | $5,063 | $19,616 | 6 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $10,144 | $10,144 | not mentioned | not published | $3,854 | $20,289 | 15 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $10,456 | $10,456 | not mentioned | $12,866 | $3,051 | $22,603 | 16 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $10,456 | $10,456 | not mentioned | $12,866 | $3,051 | $22,603 | 16 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $10,523 | $10,523 | not mentioned | $12,866 | $3,051 | $22,889 | 16 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $10,523 | $10,523 | not mentioned | $12,866 | $3,051 | $22,889 | 16 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $10,523 | $10,523 | not mentioned | $12,866 | $3,051 | $22,889 | 16 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $10,610 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $10,609 | $2,348 | $22,124 | 41 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $10,662 | $10,662 | not mentioned | $12,866 | $3,051 | $22,603 | 15 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $10,752 | $10,752 | not mentioned | not published | $10,240 | $17,920 | 7 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $10,797 | $10,797 | not mentioned | not published | $2,452 | $21,399 | 9 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $10,878 | $10,878 | not mentioned | not published | $10,460 | $29,417 | 6 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $10,928 | $10,928 | not mentioned | $13,809 | $10,610 | $11,671 | 10 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $11,088 | $11,088 | not mentioned | not published | $10,662 | $29,417 | 6 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $11,277 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $24,394 | 166 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $11,282 | $11,282 | not mentioned | not published | $3,499 | $33,889 | 19 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $11,379 | $11,379 | not mentioned | not published | $4,531 | $30,713 | 13 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $11,471 | $11,471 | not mentioned | not published | $11,029 | $29,417 | 6 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $11,725 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $24,891 | 170 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $11,771 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $24,394 | 111 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $12,177 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $992 | $37,500 | 107 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $12,177 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $992 | $50,000 | 111 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $12,177 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $992 | $37,500 | 108 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $12,177 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $992 | $50,000 | 109 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $12,177 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $992 | $50,000 | 111 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $14,494 | $14,494 | not mentioned | not published | $5,302 | $23,685 | 2 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $16,710 | $16,710 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $40,531 | 11 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $16,710 | $16,710 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $40,635 | 11 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $16,710 | $16,710 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $41,147 | 11 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $16,710 | $16,710 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $42,101 | 11 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $16,710 | $16,710 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $40,531 | 11 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $17,246 | $17,246 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $40,705 | 12 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $17,418 | $17,418 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $40,633 | 12 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $18,118 | $18,118 | not mentioned | $45,960 | $1,128 | $144,689 | 41 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA | 3/5 | $21,196 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $21,196 | $7,679 | $32,854 | 17 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $22,883 | $22,883 | not mentioned | not published | $6,760 | $36,812 | 4 |
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS | 1/5 | $31,601 | $31,601 | not mentioned | $49,418 | $9,079 | $31,601 | 94 |

## 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 1 of the 11 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 10 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $942 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 670 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.

1 of these 50 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: Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

## Others in urology

- [Prostate biopsy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/prostate-biopsy) -- 55 hospitals, typically $3,137

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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 2026-04-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.