Surgery and procedures CPT 44960 Colorado Outpatient

Appendectomy, ruptured appendix cost in Colorado

In Colorado, 5 hospitals publish a cash price for appendectomy for a ruptured appendix with abscess or peritonitis: from $2,170.50 to $13,654.83, with a median of $13,654.83. The lowest price is at Vail Health Hospital (Vail). The highest price is 6.3× the lowest.

The median here, $13,654.83, is 362% above the US median of $2,953.20.
Colorado ranks 12th of 12 states by median, cheapest first.
Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Colorado's Hospital Discounted Care law (HB21-1198): for qualifying patients with household income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level, hospitals and the clinicians who work in them may charge no more than the greater of the Medicare rate or the Medicaid base rate, and monthly payments are capped. That can be less than the cash prices below; ask the hospital to screen you for discounted care. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 44960. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 29, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$2,170.50Vail Health Hospital

Median$13,654.83half of hospitals charge less

Highest$13,654.83in Colorado

Lowest saves$11,484.33vs the median

Hospitals in Colorado, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
Vail Health Hospital lowest Vail · Edwards, CO 44960 APPENDECTOMY-RUPTURED	$2,170.50	$2,894.00	Aug 5, 2026 source file
Community Hospital Grand Junction · Grand Junction, CO REMOVAL OF RUPTURED INFECTED APPENDIX	$7,540.97	$13,466.01	Mar 13, 2026 source file
Middle Park Health - Fraser Fraser · Fraser, CO HC APPENDECTOMY, RUPT APPENDX+ABSCESS	$13,654.83	$17,068.53	Apr 28, 2026 source file
Middle Park Medical Center Kremmling · Kremmling, CO HC APPENDECTOMY, RUPT APPENDX+ABSCESS	$13,654.83	$17,068.53	Apr 27, 2026 source file
Middle Park Medical Center-Granby Granby · Granby, CO HC APPENDECTOMY, RUPT APPENDX+ABSCESS	$13,654.83	$17,068.53	Apr 27, 2026 source file

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.

By metro area

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

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Edwards, CO	1	$2,170.50	$2,170.50
Fraser, CO	1	$13,654.83	$13,654.83
Granby, CO	1	$13,654.83	$13,654.83
Grand Junction, CO	1	$7,540.97	$7,540.97
Kremmling, CO	1	$13,654.83	$13,654.83

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 appendectomy, ruptured appendix is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Appendectomy, ruptured appendix explained.

Appendectomy for a ruptured appendix with abscess or peritonitis in other states

Alabama$1,074.00, 1 hospital
Arkansas$1,967.50, 4 hospitals
California$3,763.46, 3 hospitals
Connecticut$5,040.00, 1 hospital
Delaware$6,442.00, 1 hospital
Florida$23,944.12, 1 hospital
Georgia$3,100.00, 3 hospitals
Idaho$4,000.00
Illinois$4,049.10
Indiana$1,574.52, 2 hospitals
Iowa$5,148.64, 2 hospitals
Kansas$4,858.20
Louisiana$5,955.28
Maine$2,284.38, 1 hospital
Maryland$2,264.00, 1 hospital
Massachusetts$13,376.48, 1 hospital
Michigan$1,243.77
Minnesota$2,088.88
Mississippi$2,172.50, 4 hospitals
Missouri$1,474.80, 3 hospitals
Montana$2,050.63, 4 hospitals
Nebraska$6,787.20, 1 hospital
New Hampshire$1,047.20, 1 hospital
New Jersey$5,339.00
New Mexico$18,118.16, 2 hospitals
New York$4,321.00
North Dakota$9,703.27, 3 hospitals
Ohio$1,779.24, 3 hospitals
Oregon$2,221.90, 3 hospitals
Pennsylvania$2,416.61
Puerto Rico$1,359.03, 1 hospital
South Carolina$955.00, 1 hospital
South Dakota$3,659.23, 1 hospital
Tennessee$949.65, 1 hospital
Texas$3,132.97
Utah$1,496.33, 1 hospital
Vermont$1,175.44, 2 hospitals
Washington$1,768.00, 3 hospitals
West Virginia$1,442.81, 4 hospitals
Wisconsin$4,862.31

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.