Kittitas Valley Community Hospital

EllensburgKittitas CountyCritical Access Hospitals

Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic)

Quality: not rated by CMSEarliest available date: call (509) 962-9841

What you may pay

With insurance from an employer or private plan: $2,992Only one plan lists a price here:
FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS $2,992 Lower than typical
Typical at 35 hospitals we cover: $15,238 to $18,630 (each hospital’s middle plan price, hospital’s fee). Don’t see your plan? Ask your insurer for its rate here.
Paying yourself (cash price): $2,992 Lower than typicalTypical hospital’s fee at 9 hospitals we cover: $2,162 to $46,396.Hospital’s fee $1,454 + clinic doctor’s fee $1,539, both billed by the hospital.

These are prices the hospital published, not a quote. With insurance you usually pay part of the rate (your deductible and coinsurance); the estimator on the procedure page works it out. A higher price does not mean better care.

Doctors usually bill separately. At most hospitals these are the hospital’s own charges. The surgeon, radiologist, anesthesiologist or pathologist usually sends a separate bill: ask each of them for an estimate too.

Source: Kittitas Valley Community Hospital’s own price file, dated 2026-10-07. CareNavIQ last refreshed prices on 2026-11-09.

Next step: ask the hospital for a Good Faith Estimate for this procedure (phone number above).

17 published prices, grouped by who each price applies to.

Cash price 2 prices

The hospital's discounted price for patients paying without insurance.

Cash price prices for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$1,454	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	—	Outpatient	2026-10-07
$1,539	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	—	Outpatient	2026-10-07

List price (before discounts) 2 prices

The hospital's full chargemaster price. Few patients pay this amount.

List price (before discounts) prices for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$1,710	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	—	Outpatient	2026-10-07
$1,810	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	—	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Commercial insurance 2 prices

Rate negotiated with a private insurer or employer plan, including exchange and public-option plans.

Commercial insurance prices for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS	FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS	$1,454	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS	FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS	$1,539	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Medicare Advantage 2 prices

Rate for a private Medicare Advantage plan. Applies only to members of that plan.

Medicare Advantage prices for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
AETNA MCR ADV	AETNA MCR ADV	$345	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07
AETNA MCR ADV	AETNA MCR ADV	$626	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Unknown 9 prices

The source file doesn't say which population this rate applies to.

Unknown prices for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
AETNA-ALL OTHER PLANS	AETNA-ALL OTHER PLANS	$1,625	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
AETNA-ALL OTHER PLANS	AETNA-ALL OTHER PLANS	$821	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07
CHPW-ALL PLANS	CHPW-ALL PLANS	$1,454	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
CHPW-ALL PLANS	CHPW-ALL PLANS	$1,001	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07
CIGNA-ALL PLANS	CIGNA-ALL PLANS	$939	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07
PREMERA FIRST-ALL PLANS	PREMERA FIRST-ALL PLANS	$1,440	Hospital’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
PREMERA FIRST-ALL PLANS	PREMERA FIRST-ALL PLANS	$967	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07
REGENCE BLUE SHIELD-ALL PLANS	REGENCE BLUE SHIELD-ALL PLANS	$1,080	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07
UHC-ALL PLANS	UHC-ALL PLANS	$1,041	Clinic doctor’s fee	Removal of gallbladder using an endoscope	fee schedule	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Doctors here who do this procedure

1 doctor affiliated with Kittitas Valley Community Hospital billed Traditional Medicare for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) in 2024, most Medicare services first. See all doctors and practices, including those with no hospital affiliation.

Doctors affiliated with Kittitas Valley Community Hospital who billed Traditional Medicare for Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic)
Doctor or practice	Practice	Medicare quality score	Times billed to Traditional Medicare (2024)	Traditional Medicare amount for their own service (2024)
Christopher Petty, MDGeneral Surgery · Puyallup	Kittitas County Public Hospital Dist 1Group of 82 clinicians	Not rated	12	$637 at a hospital or surgery center

Reading the doctor list

A higher price doesn’t mean better care. The quality score and the price come from different CMS files and are shown separately on purpose.
The amount is what Traditional Medicare (original Medicare) approved for the doctor’s or lab’s own service: Medicare’s payment plus the patient’s share. It is not what commercial insurance or Medicare Advantage pays, and the hospital or surgery center bills separately (surgery centers aren’t in this list).
The Medicare quality score is CMS’s MIPS final score (0 to 100), based mostly on the doctor’s Medicare patients. About half of doctors aren’t scored, so Not rated says nothing bad about a doctor. A group’s score covers everyone in the group.
CMS doesn’t publish counts under 11 patients, so doctors who rarely bill Medicare for this aren’t listed, and No price published means CMS has no amount for that setting.
Medicare’s file doesn’t say where a doctor did the procedure, only that they billed it in Washington. Affiliations are the hospitals each doctor lists with Medicare.

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