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Freezing treatment of an arm nerve with imaging guidance

CPT 0440Tthe billing code this page is about

A needle is guided through the skin using imaging to freeze a peripheral nerve in the upper limb in order to interrupt pain signals.

Hospitals typically charge $2,441 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 187 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,696. Most fall between $1,779 and $6,521 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
187
States
33
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 187 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,061$1,943$2,441$4,880$9,188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,061 vs $9,188).

How the prices are spread

$731 – $942: 9 hospitals$731$942 – $1,213: 4 hospitals$1,213 – $1,563: 8 hospitals$1,213$1,563 – $2,013: 21 hospitals$2,013 – $2,592: 68 hospitals$2,013$2,592 – $3,339: 13 hospitals$3,339 – $4,300: 7 hospitals$3,339$4,300 – $5,539: 8 hospitals$5,539 – $7,134: 5 hospitals$5,539$7,134 – $9,188: 27 hospitals$7,134median $2,441price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (170 of 187 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$731$9429
$942$1,2134
$1,213$1,5638
$1,563$2,01321
$2,013$2,59268
$2,592$3,33913
$3,339$4,3007
$4,300$5,5398
$5,539$7,1345
$7,134$9,18827

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,995
Median cash price$2,441
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,441.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $9,188 across 18 hospitalsNY$9,188Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $804 across 13 hospitalsIN$804Ohio: median $2,238 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,238Pennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,486 across 18 hospitalsCA$2,486Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,157 across 40 hospitalsTX$2,157Florida: median $8,189 across 11 hospitalsFL$8,189
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,441. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY18$9,188+276%$2,318 – $9,188
Florida FL11$8,189+235%$8,189 – $8,189
California CA18$2,486+2%$2,486 – $2,486
Ohio OH12$2,238−8%$1,866 – $2,238
Texas TX40$2,157−12%$1,779 – $2,157
Indiana IN13$804−67%$704 – $1,138
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $2,441.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care170$2,451$1,943 – $7,025
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit25$2,157$912 – $2,817
Government13fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit147$2,451$1,794 – $7,511
System affiliation
Part of a system166$2,307$1,779 – $5,795
Independent21$3,493$912 – $7,563

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,780
Median cash price$2,441
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

127 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,307 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,563; most fall between $1,981 and $5,300.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 127 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,779$2,157$2,307$3,479$8,189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,779 vs $8,189).

Of the 141 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 127 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

187 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 198 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted187
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code198

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Abltj Perc Cryoabltj Img Gdn Uxtr/Perph Nerve.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Freezing treatment of an arm nerve with imaging guidance (CPT 0440T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0440t-freezing-treatment-of-an-arm-nerve-with-imaging-guidance