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Cataract Surgery With Eye Pressure Laser Treatment

California rates for HCPCS 66988

Removes the clouded natural lens from the eye and puts a clear artificial lens in its place, and in the same sitting uses a laser passed through a fine endoscope to treat the tissue that produces the eye's fluid. Treating that tissue reduces fluid production and lowers pressure inside the eye. Combining the two deals with clouded vision and raised eye pressure in one operation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Cataract Surgery With Eye Pressure Laser Treatment cost?

$794

Typical negotiated rate. In California, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $794 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $708 from a physician practice, and about $4,571 from a hospital or other facility.

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 11 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$708$617 to $1,380
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,571$2,630 to $9,333

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $16,218Professionalmedian $708 · 10th to 90th $537 to $5,623
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $4,571professional $708

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
$2,818.38
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$19,498.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$758.58
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$13,803.84
Typical High
$25,118.86
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,047.13
Blue Shield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$10,715.19
Blue Shield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,047.13
Central California Alliance for Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$954.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,025.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,630.27
Contra Costa Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,162.28
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,778.28
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,128.61
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$5,623.41
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$10,000.00
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,630.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$17,378.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,230.27
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
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,023.29

Where California sits

The same service costs 6.2 times more in Alaska than in New York. 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.

California· 42nd of 51

$794

AK $3,890NY $631

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.