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Surgical Eye Pressure Relief Procedure

Utah 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 October 2026.

How much does Surgical Eye Pressure Relief Procedure cost?

$3,835

Typical total for the visit. In Utah, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,835 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $447 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,388 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$447$110 to $589
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,388$2,512 to $7,079

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $724 to $8,710Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $56 to $741
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $3,388professional $447

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,570.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$2,630.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,318.26
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$630.96
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$8,317.64
Typical High
$12,022.64
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,202.26
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,258.93
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,630.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,380.38
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$10,000.00
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$18,197.01

Where Utah sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Alaska than in South Carolina. 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

Utah· 20th of 51

$3,835

$447 physician + $3,388 facility

AK $8,807SC $1,633

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.