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Cataract Surgery With Eye Pressure Laser Treatment

Massachusetts 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?

$1,259

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,259 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,175 from a physician practice, and about $2,042 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 10 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,175$832 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,042$933 to $3,631

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $741 to $6,918Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $708 to $4,786
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,042professional $1,175

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
$2,691.53
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$660.69
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$8,912.51
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,786.30
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$4,466.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,511.89
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,412.54
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$10,232.93
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,290.87
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$831.76
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$8,912.51
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,786.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$12,589.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,511.89
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$2,511.89
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,019.95
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
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$257.04

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 21st of 51

$1,259

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.