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Procedure price report · Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures

Freezing treatment of a nerve plexus or trunk nerve

CPT 0442Tthe billing code this page is about

A needle is guided through the skin using imaging to freeze a nerve plexus or a nerve of the trunk in order to interrupt pain signals.

Hospitals typically charge $7,414 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 297 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $7,029. Most fall between $3,291 and $11,669 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
297
States
44
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 297 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
$3,001$3,942$7,414$10,417$17,380

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,001 vs $17,380).

How the prices are spread

$2,296 – $2,951: 14 hospitals$2,296$2,951 – $3,793: 45 hospitals$3,793 – $4,875: 26 hospitals$3,793$4,875 – $6,266: 18 hospitals$6,266 – $8,055: 62 hospitals$6,266$8,055 – $10,353: 39 hospitals$10,353 – $13,308: 39 hospitals$10,353$13,308 – $17,106: 10 hospitals$17,106 – $21,987: 12 hospitals$17,106$21,987 – $28,262: 4 hospitals$21,987median $7,414price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (269 of 297 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$2,296$2,95114
$2,951$3,79345
$3,793$4,87526
$4,875$6,26618
$6,266$8,05562
$8,055$10,35339
$10,353$13,30839
$13,308$17,10610
$17,106$21,98712
$21,987$28,2624

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$8,966
Median cash price$7,414
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.83×

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 $7,414.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 4 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $7,961 across 13 hospitalsIN$7,961Ohio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $34,060 across 16 hospitalsPA$34,060New Jersey: median $8,545 across 12 hospitalsNJ$8,545Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,948 across 38 hospitalsCA$3,948Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,386 across 12 hospitalsCO$3,386Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $11,669 across 11 hospitalsSC$11,669Oklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,291 across 20 hospitalsGA$3,291Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,414 across 40 hospitalsTX$7,414Florida: median $8,189 across 20 hospitalsFL$8,189
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $7,414. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA16$34,060+359%$10,073 – $34,967
South Carolina SC11$11,669+57%$8,169 – $11,669
New Jersey NJ12$8,545+15%$8,545 – $29,317
Florida FL20$8,189+10%$8,189 – $18,033
Indiana IN13$7,961+7%$6,968 – $11,259
Texas TX40$7,4140%$6,135 – $7,414
California CA38$3,948−47%$3,271 – $3,948
Colorado CO12$3,386−54%$3,351 – $7,645
Georgia GA20$3,291−56%$3,291 – $6,372
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $7,414.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care277$7,414$3,291 – $11,669
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access14fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit35$7,414$3,291 – $8,862
Government30$6,009$3,007 – $11,099
Non-profit231$7,414$3,351 – $12,366
System affiliation
Part of a system270$7,414$3,291 – $11,669
Independent27$7,168$2,322 – $12,661

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$12,975
Median cash price$7,414
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $7,414 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,790; most fall between $3,291 and $11,669.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 232 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
$3,069$3,351$7,414$10,368$17,380

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,069 vs $17,380).

Of the 248 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 232 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

297 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 316 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted297
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code316

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 Nrv Plex/Trncl Nrv.

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 a nerve plexus or trunk nerve (CPT 0442T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0442t-freezing-treatment-of-a-nerve-plexus-or-trunk-nerve