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Laser treatment after cataract surgery in Columbus, Ohio

No hospital in Columbus, Ohio publishes a self-pay price for this one. Where a hospital publishes a negotiated range instead, it is shown below.

These prices are not directly comparable

Hospitals bill this one at different levels. One may publish a single operating-room line while another publishes the whole surgical episode — both honest, both under the same billing code. So the figures below are what each hospital publishes, not a like-for-like comparison, and we do not compute a "cheapest" from them. Why →

Hospital Self-pay price List price Insurers pay Publishes
Nationwide Children's Hospital Nationwide Children's · Columbus $675–$1,350 varies $750 $105–$1,125 C
Ohio State University Hospitals OSU Wexner Medical Center · Columbus not published $1,255 $6–$1,255 F
James Cancer Hospital OSU Wexner Medical Center · Columbus not published $1,255 $275–$1,167 F
Grant Medical Center OhioHealth · Columbus not published $530–$3,714 C
Riverside Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus not published $530–$3,714 C
Dublin Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Dublin not published $530–$3,714 C
Doctors Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus not published $542–$3,714 C

What these three numbers mean

Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.

Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →

Billing code CPT 66821 — YAG laser capsulotomy. Every price on this page is read from the hospital's own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.