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Surgery and procedures CPT 11981 New Mexico Outpatient

Birth control implant insertion cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 5 hospitals publish a cash price for insertion of a drug-delivery implant, such as the arm birth control implant: from $169.52 to $25,179.39, with a median of $280.16. The lowest price is at Artesia General Hospital (Artesia). The highest price is 148.5× the lowest.

  • The median here, $280.16, is 3% above the US median of $270.85.
  • That is 2.1× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($135.93).
  • New Mexico ranks 26th of 45 states by median, cheapest first.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 11981. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 12, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$169.52Artesia General Hospital
Median$280.16half of hospitals charge less
Highest$25,179.39in New Mexico
Lowest saves$110.64vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Artesia General Hospital lowest Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM INSERT DRUG DELIVERY IMPLANT $169.52 $282.54 Feb 20, 2026
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University of New Mexico Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM INSERTION DRUG DLVR IMPLANT $175.45 $319.00 Mar 25, 2026
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Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM 11981 INSERTION NON-BIODEGRADABLE DRUG DELIVERY IMPLANT $280.16 $350.20 Mar 11, 2026
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Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Roswell · Roswell, NM INSERTION DRUG DLVR IMPLANT $7,965.93 $37,933.00 Dec 20, 2024
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Mountain View Regional Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM INSERTION DRUG DLVR IMPLANT $25,179.39 $93,257.00 Dec 3, 2024
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Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.
Check the item The description in the hospital file looks like a supply or device (a catheter, a brace, an implant), not this procedure. The hospital may have filed it under the wrong code: ask before relying on this price.

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Albuquerque, NM 1 $175.45 $175.45
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM 1 $169.52 $169.52
Grants, NM 1 $280.16 $280.16
Las Cruces, NM 1 $25,179.39 $25,179.39
Roswell, NM 1 $7,965.93 $7,965.93
Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.
Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.
Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.
Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What birth control implant insertion is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Birth control implant insertion explained.

Insertion of a drug-delivery implant, such as the arm birth control implant in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.