Surgery and procedures CPT 49083 New Mexico Outpatient

Paracentesis cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 17 hospitals publish a cash price for paracentesis with imaging guidance: from $443.73 to $2,559.60, with a median of $1,249.60. The lowest price is at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center (Roswell). The highest price is 5.8× the lowest.

The median here, $1,249.60, is 2% below the US median of $1,275.50.
That is 1.3× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($926.63).
New Mexico ranks 26th of 50 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 49083. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 6, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$443.73Eastern New Mexico Medical Center

Median$1,249.60half of hospitals charge less

Highest$2,559.60in New Mexico

Lowest saves$805.87vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center lowest Roswell · Roswell, NM US Paracentesis Abd w Image	$443.73	$2,113.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM 49083 ABD PARACENTESIS W/IMAGING CHARGE	$468.86	$586.07	Mar 11, 2026 source file
University of New Mexico Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM DRAINAGE OF FLUID FROM ABDOMINAL CAVITY USING IMAGING GUIDANCE	$559.90	$1,018.00	Mar 25, 2026 source file
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell Roswell · Roswell, NM HC Abd Paracentesis W/Imaging	$803.40	$2,678.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services Gallup · Gallup, NM 49083 Paracentesis With Us Charge	$820.00	$2,733.00	— source file
Mountain View Regional Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM IR-ABD PARACEN W IMG	$858.06	$3,178.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Carlsbad Medical Center Carlsbad · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM ABD PARACENTESIS W/IMAGING	$938.08	$9,380.76	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Artesia General Hospital Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM ABD PARACENTESIS W/IMAGING	$1,086.00	$1,810.00	Feb 20, 2026 source file
Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems Taos · Taos, NM PARACENTESIS ABD W/ IMAGING	$1,249.60	$1,562.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Covenant Hospital Hobbs Hobbs · Hobbs, NM HC ABDOM PARACENTESIS DX/THER W/IMAGING GUIDANCE CDM	$1,559.88	$3,714.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Los Alamos Medical Center Los Alamos · Albuquerque, NM Abdominal paracentesis (diagnostic or therapeutic); with imaging guidance	$1,601.26	$2,668.76	Jul 10, 2026 source file
Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM Abdominal paracentesis (diagnostic or therapeutic); with imaging guidance	$1,664.21	$2,773.68	Jul 10, 2026 source file
Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County · Silver City, NM US PARACENTESIS	$1,684.80	$2,106.00	Dec 2, 2025 source file
San Juan Regional Medical Center Farmington · Farmington, NM Drainage of fluid from abdominal cavity using imaging guidance	$1,770.00	$3,540.00	Oct 8, 2026 source file
Lovelace Medical Center Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM HC Abd Paracentesis W/Imaging	$2,511.60	$8,372.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Westside Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM HC Abd Paracentesis W/Imaging	$2,559.60	$8,532.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Womens Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM HC Abd Paracentesis W/Imaging	$2,559.60	$8,532.00	Mar 31, 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.

At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More

By metro area

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

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Albuquerque, NM	5	$559.90	$2,511.60
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM	2	$938.08	$1,012.04
Las Cruces, NM	2	$858.06	$1,261.14
Roswell, NM	2	$443.73	$623.56
Farmington, NM	1	$1,770.00	$1,770.00
Grants, NM	1	$468.86	$468.86
Gallup, NM	1	$820.00	$820.00
Hobbs, NM	1	$1,559.88	$1,559.88
Silver City, NM	1	$1,684.80	$1,684.80
Taos, NM	1	$1,249.60	$1,249.60

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 paracentesis is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Paracentesis explained.

Paracentesis with imaging guidance in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.