Surgery and procedures CPT 46221 Outpatient

Hemorrhoid banding cost in Utica, NY

In Utica-Rome, NY, 3 hospitals list a cash price for hemorrhoid banding (rubber band ligation): from $121.24 to $4,303.85, with a median of $230.40. The lowest listed price is at Little Falls Hospital — $109.16 less than the median here. Across New York, the median is $1,078.88 at 46 hospitals.

Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 46221, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Aug 11, 2026 and Aug 11, 2026.

Lowest$121.24Little Falls Hospital
Median$230.40half pay less
Highest$4,303.85in this market
Difference35.5×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Utica-Rome, NY.

median
Lowest $121.24Highest $4,303.85

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Little Falls Hospital lowest Little Falls, NY · (315) 823-5261 CAH PR Hemorrhoidectomy Internal Rubber Band Ligations $121.24 $449.05 $125.73–$449.05 73% —
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Mvhs Utica, NY Hemorhoid Int Band Ligate $230.40 $384.00 $86.00–$3,335.24 40% —
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Mvhs Utica, NY Hemorrhoidectomy Internal Rubber Band Ligations $372.60 $621.00 $41.34–$252.51 40% —
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Rome Memorial Hospital Rome, NY · (315) 338-7000 Ligation of hemorrhoid(s) $4,303.85 $10,661.00 $115.00–$1,145.46 60% Aug 11, 2026
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Rome Memorial Hospital Rome, NY · (315) 338-7000 Ligation of hemorrhoid(s) $4,303.85 $10,661.00 $115.00–$1,145.46 60% Aug 11, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $121.24, median $230.40, highest $4,303.85 — a 35.5× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $2,267.13. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 2 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

Hemorrhoid banding places small rubber bands around internal hemorrhoids so they shrink and fall off within about a week.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the procedure and numbing medicine. The visit may be billed separately.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 46221 ($890.85). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Mvhs Utica, NYHemorhoid Int Band Ligate $46.08 file