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Surgical Eye Pressure Relief Procedure

Alabama rates for HCPCS 65820

This eye surgery lowers pressure inside the eye by creating or improving a drainage pathway for the fluid inside it. It is generally used to treat glaucoma and is typically a planned, scheduled procedure rather than emergency treatment for a sudden pressure spike.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Surgical Eye Pressure Relief Procedure cost?

$2,572

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,572 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,023$759 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$1,148 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $692 to $3,548Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $631 to $1,778
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $1,023

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,778.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$269.15
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,041.74
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,148.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$977.24

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.4 times more in Wyoming than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alabama· 47th of 50

$2,572

$1,023 physician + $1,549 facility

WY $13,189MD $2,072

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.