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Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Canal Surgery

South Carolina rates for HCPCS 66174

This eye surgery widens the eye's natural internal drainage channel for fluid, using a minimally invasive approach without leaving any implant or stent behind. It helps fluid drain more easily out of the eye to lower pressure inside it, treating glaucoma without a traditional filtering surgery.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Canal Surgery cost?

$8,557

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,557 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $794 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,762 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$794$741 to $1,202
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,762$3,890 to $14,791

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,762 · 10th to 90th $1,096 to $20,893Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $562 to $1,698
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $7,762professional $794

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
$2,570.40
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,905.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,698.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$17,378.01
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$3,388.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,584.89
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,344.23
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,162.28
Median
$16,595.87
Typical High
$25,703.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,659.59

Where South Carolina sits

The same service costs 9.6 times more in Indiana than in Maine. 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

South Carolina· 10th of 50

$8,557

$794 physician + $7,762 facility

IN $14,977ME $1,559

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.