Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Cost in South Carolina
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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South Carolina Medicare physician rate (2026)
-4.5% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
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 South Carolina
Check your ZIP code for your region of South Carolina, whether Charleston and the Lowcountry, Columbia and the Midlands, Greenville-Spartanburg in the Upstate, or Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand.
What laparoscopic cholecystectomy costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in South Carolina 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 South Carolina
Where South Carolina ranks for this CPT
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and how South Carolina is priced
South Carolina prices through one statewide locality with indices a bit below the national average, so Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and the rural Pee Dee share the same Medicare-approved amounts. Rapid coastal growth has not led CMS to break out a separate locality, keeping the fee schedule uniform from the mountains to the sea islands. The single set of adjustments makes the statewide figures here directly usable anywhere in the state. Facility fees at hospital-owned locations remain the largest source of price variation for patients.
The state's medical firepower splits three ways: an academic medical center and strong hospital market in Charleston, the capital-region systems in Columbia, and a large Upstate network centered on Greenville. Retiree-heavy coastal areas like Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach have booming demand for Medicare-age care, while the rural I-95 corridor faces some of the state's worst access gaps. Some border residents use Charlotte or Augusta providers.
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 South Carolina: questions
South Carolina is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 47562 is $603.24 in an office and $603.24 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. South Carolina uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $121 for the office physician line or $121 for the hospital physician line in South Carolina. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $603.24 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. South Carolina ranks #20 of 51 states on the physician line (5% below the national office rate of $631.95).