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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Surgical exploration of a penetrating wound of the chest

CPT 20101the billing code this page is about

Opening and examining a stab, gunshot, or similar penetrating wound of the chest in the operating room to check for damage and clean it out.

Hospitals typically charge $1,930 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 806 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,894. Most fall between $647 and $3,536 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
806
States
47
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 806 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
$385$840$1,930$2,988$5,048

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($385 vs $5,048).

How the prices are spread

$281 – $386: 42 hospitals$281$386 – $530: 47 hospitals$530 – $727: 51 hospitals$530$727 – $998: 62 hospitals$998 – $1,370: 67 hospitals$998$1,370 – $1,881: 86 hospitals$1,881 – $2,582: 153 hospitals$1,881$2,582 – $3,545: 103 hospitals$3,545 – $4,867: 65 hospitals$3,545$4,867 – $6,681: 66 hospitals$4,867median $1,930price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (742 of 806 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$281$38642
$386$53047
$530$72751
$727$99862
$998$1,37067
$1,370$1,88186
$1,881$2,582153
$2,582$3,545103
$3,545$4,86765
$4,867$6,68166

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$1,930
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $1,930.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,706 across 35 hospitalsWA$1,706Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,586 across 23 hospitalsMN$1,586Illinois: median $1,187 across 30 hospitalsIL$1,187Wisconsin: median $1,160 across 30 hospitalsWI$1,160Michigan: median $1,174 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,174New York: median $2,165 across 33 hospitalsNY$2,165Massachusetts: median $1,172 across 12 hospitalsMA$1,172Oregon: median $879 across 23 hospitalsOR$879Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,162 across 24 hospitalsIA$1,162Indiana: median $1,448 across 20 hospitalsIN$1,448Ohio: median $2,114 across 31 hospitalsOH$2,114Pennsylvania: median $2,109 across 32 hospitalsPA$2,109New Jersey: median $3,786 across 28 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,562 across 82 hospitalsCA$3,562Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $1,740 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,740Nebraska: median $1,407 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,407Missouri: median $1,437 across 22 hospitalsMO$1,437Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $235 across 15 hospitalsWV$235Virginia: median $2,442 across 20 hospitalsVA$2,442Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $867 across 11 hospitalsKS$867Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $853 across 10 hospitalsTN$853North Carolina: median $3,536 across 14 hospitalsNC$3,536South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $344 across 19 hospitalsOK$344Louisiana: median $1,518 across 17 hospitalsLA$1,518Mississippi: median $1,300 across 16 hospitalsMS$1,300Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,140 across 60 hospitalsTX$2,140Florida: median $2,764 across 26 hospitalsFL$2,764
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,930. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ28$3,786+96%$2,025 – $5,741
California CA82$3,562+85%$1,914 – $6,681
North Carolina NC14$3,536+83%$2,010 – $3,536
Florida FL26$2,764+43%$996 – $6,284
Virginia VA20$2,442+27%$1,993 – $2,792
New York NY33$2,165+12%$630 – $2,576
Texas TX60$2,140+11%$1,014 – $2,301
Ohio OH31$2,114+9%$840 – $2,397
Pennsylvania PA32$2,109+9%$141 – $3,742
Colorado CO10$1,740−10%$322 – $2,775
Washington WA35$1,706−12%$566 – $4,862
Minnesota MN23$1,586−18%$508 – $1,877
Louisiana LA17$1,518−21%$593 – $2,108
Indiana IN20$1,448−25%$447 – $1,956
Missouri MO22$1,437−26%$550 – $3,637
Nebraska NE13$1,407−27%$703 – $1,880
Mississippi MS16$1,300−33%$769 – $1,625
Illinois IL30$1,187−39%$447 – $3,202
Michigan MI31$1,174−39%$659 – $6,618
Massachusetts MA12$1,172−39%$525 – $3,362
Iowa IA24$1,162−40%$798 – $2,079
Wisconsin WI30$1,160−40%$985 – $2,679
Oregon OR23$879−54%$385 – $3,101
Kansas KS11$867−55%$441 – $1,889
Tennessee TN10$853−56%$481 – $896
Oklahoma OK19$344−82%$344 – $2,159
West Virginia WV15$235−88%$224 – $587
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not 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 $1,930.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care612$2,114$796 – $3,637
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access181$1,160$465 – $2,292
Ownership
For-profit77$2,140$656 – $4,019
Government138$1,322$558 – $3,033
Non-profit591$1,999$694 – $3,562
System affiliation
Part of a system656$2,059$796 – $3,562
Independent150$1,187$458 – $2,775

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,106
Median cash price$1,930
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

569 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,063 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,069; most fall between $695 and $3,683.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 569 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
$393$931$2,063$3,536$5,469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($393 vs $5,469).

Of the 614 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 569 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

806 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 884 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted806
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code884

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 OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exploration Penetrating Wound Spx Chest.

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, “Surgical exploration of a penetrating wound of the chest (CPT 20101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20101-surgical-exploration-of-a-penetrating-wound-of-the-chest