Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Cost in Illinois
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
$6,808Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
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- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Illinois Medicare physician rate (2026)
+12.0% vs nationalAverage of 4 localities. Office range $664.60–$750.83.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $3,146 on the Medicare allowed amount for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
Medicare pays the hospital a single comprehensive amount for this procedure, covering the facility's share of the encounter including implants and supplies. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Illinois
Enter a ZIP code to see which Illinois locality applies to you, whether Chicago proper, the suburban collar counties, the Metro East near St. Louis, or downstate cities like Springfield, Peoria, and Champaign.
What laparoscopic cholecystectomy costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Illinois moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Illinois
Where Illinois ranks for this CPT
CPT 47562 by Illinois locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| chicago | $750.83 |
| suburban chicago | $708.63 |
| east st. louis | $706.23 |
| rest of illinois | $664.60 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.913 to 1.027 in Illinois. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and how Illinois is priced
Illinois uses one of the more detailed locality maps in the Midwest: Chicago has its own locality, the suburban collar counties are priced separately, the East St. Louis area carries its own locality tied to the St. Louis market, and the rest of the state shares a fourth. Approved amounts step down noticeably from the city and suburbs to downstate, so the same procedure prices differently in Chicago, Naperville, Belleville, and Springfield. This four-way split makes Illinois one of the states where a ZIP-level check genuinely changes the answer. Downstate rates align more closely with neighboring rural states than with Chicagoland.
Chicago is one of the country's great medical hubs, with multiple academic medical centers and deep specialist supply, and its suburbs support large competing systems of their own. Downstate Illinois is a different market: smaller cities like Peoria, Springfield, and Champaign serve wide rural areas, and the Metro East suburbs orient toward St. Louis providers. Where you sit on that map shapes both price and choice.
This procedure: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy removes the gallbladder through four small abdominal incisions using a camera and long instruments, most often for painful gallstones or gallbladder inflammation. It is one of the most frequently performed general surgeries in the country. Under general anesthesia the operation takes about an hour, and most planned cases go home the same day, returning to normal activity within one to two weeks.
What Is Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy?
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy removes the gallbladder through four small abdominal incisions using a camera and long instruments, most often for painful gallstones or gallbladder inflammation. It is one of the most frequently performed general surgeries in the country. Under general anesthesia the operation takes about an hour, and most planned cases go home the same day, returning to normal activity within one to two weeks.
What Affects the Cost
- –Whether the surgery is planned and outpatient or done urgently during a hospital admission for a gallbladder attack changes the total dramatically.
- –An intraoperative cholangiogram, an X-ray of the bile ducts during surgery, adds imaging and radiology charges when performed.
- –Conversion from laparoscopic to open surgery, needed in a small percentage of difficult cases, changes the code, extends recovery, and usually means a hospital stay.
- –The gallbladder is routinely sent to pathology after removal, adding a lab fee.
- –Anesthesia bills separately by time, and pre-operative labs and imaging carry their own charges.
- –Ambulatory surgery centers, where available for this operation, undercut hospital outpatient pricing.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Can my surgery be done as a scheduled outpatient case, and at which facility is it cheapest?
- 2.Do you routinely perform a cholangiogram, and what does it add to the bill?
- 3.What happens to the cost if you need to convert to open surgery?
- 4.Are the anesthesia group and the pathology lab in my network?
- 5.Has prior authorization been approved for both the procedure and the facility?
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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Illinois: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 47562 averages $707.57 across 4 Illinois localities, from $664.60 in REST OF ILLINOIS to $750.83 in CHICAGO. The hospital physician rate averages $707.57. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Illinois into 4 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $86.23 from the lowest to highest locality. Enter a ZIP code to see which Illinois locality applies to you, whether Chicago proper, the suburban collar counties, the Metro East near St. Louis, or downstate cities like Springfield, Peoria, and Champaign.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $142 for the office physician line or $142 for the hospital physician line in Illinois. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $707.57 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $6,808 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $3,663 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Illinois ranks #49 of 51 states on the physician line (12% above the national office rate of $631.95).