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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Draining and injecting a bone cyst

CPT 20615the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a cyst inside bone by drawing out its contents through a needle and injecting medication or bone material.

Hospitals typically charge $853 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 837 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $927. Most fall between $427 and $1,819 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
837
States
50
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 837 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
$275$518$853$1,458$3,100

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($275 vs $3,100).

How the prices are spread

$206 – $278: 45 hospitals$206$278 – $377: 48 hospitals$377 – $511: 72 hospitals$377$511 – $691: 91 hospitals$691 – $936: 175 hospitals$691$936 – $1,268: 101 hospitals$1,268 – $1,717: 91 hospitals$1,268$1,717 – $2,325: 64 hospitals$2,325 – $3,148: 28 hospitals$2,325$3,148 – $4,263: 41 hospitals$3,148median $853price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (756 of 837 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$206$27845
$278$37748
$377$51172
$511$69191
$691$936175
$936$1,268101
$1,268$1,71791
$1,717$2,32564
$2,325$3,14828
$3,148$4,26341

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$853
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.18×

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 $853.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,117 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,117Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,250 across 17 hospitalsMN$1,250Illinois: median $1,480 across 39 hospitalsIL$1,480Wisconsin: median $857 across 44 hospitalsWI$857Michigan: median $698 across 25 hospitalsMI$698New York: median $833 across 40 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $683 across 12 hospitalsMA$683Oregon: median $850 across 16 hospitalsOR$850Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $614 across 21 hospitalsIA$614Indiana: median $549 across 22 hospitalsIN$549Ohio: median $781 across 61 hospitalsOH$781Pennsylvania: median $817 across 35 hospitalsPA$817New Jersey: median $2,719 across 36 hospitalsNJ$2,719Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,834 across 69 hospitalsCA$1,834Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,631 across 22 hospitalsCO$1,631Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $960 across 20 hospitalsMO$960Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $795 across 10 hospitalsVA$795Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $314 across 11 hospitalsAZ$314New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $295 across 15 hospitalsTN$295North Carolina: median $975 across 16 hospitalsNC$975South Carolina: median $1,102 across 16 hospitalsSC$1,102Oklahoma: median $799 across 17 hospitalsOK$799Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,835 across 23 hospitalsGA$1,835Hawaii: median $1,267 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,267Texas: median $852 across 45 hospitalsTX$852Florida: median $1,030 across 52 hospitalsFL$1,030
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $853. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ36$2,719+219%$779 – $5,419
Georgia GA23$1,835+115%$706 – $1,835
California CA69$1,834+115%$811 – $3,769
Colorado CO22$1,631+91%$466 – $4,528
Illinois IL39$1,480+74%$284 – $3,620
Hawaii HI10$1,267+49%$282 – $1,735
Minnesota MN17$1,250+47%$611 – $1,325
Washington WA22$1,117+31%$505 – $1,855
South Carolina SC16$1,102+29%$853 – $1,102
Florida FL52$1,030+21%$275 – $2,216
North Carolina NC16$975+14%$559 – $975
Missouri MO20$960+13%$417 – $1,310
Wisconsin WI44$857+1%$610 – $948
Texas TX45$8520%$491 – $965
Oregon OR16$8500%$454 – $965
New York NY40$833−2%$338 – $1,580
Pennsylvania PA35$817−4%$108 – $1,289
Oklahoma OK17$799−6%$420 – $1,253
Virginia VA10$795−7%$295 – $795
Ohio OH61$781−8%$650 – $2,104
Michigan MI25$698−18%$303 – $857
Massachusetts MA12$683−20%$499 – $2,172
Iowa IA21$614−28%$379 – $614
Indiana IN22$549−36%$411 – $1,030
Arizona AZ11$314−63%$269 – $395
Tennessee TN15$295−65%$206 – $526
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $853.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care673$872$452 – $1,835
Children’s36$1,405$650 – $3,330
Critical access125$698$327 – $968
Ownership
For-profit59$779$271 – $1,835
Government135$785$334 – $1,427
Non-profit640$857$459 – $1,855
System affiliation
Part of a system705$857$467 – $1,803
Independent132$685$327 – $1,819

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,553
Median cash price$853
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

584 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $895 and the average of the middle 60% is $985; most fall between $430 and $1,835.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 584 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
$269$514$895$1,518$2,663

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($269 vs $2,663).

Of the 614 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 584 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

837 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 887 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted837
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code887

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 bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Aspiration & Injection Treatment Bone Cyst.

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, “Draining and injecting a bone cyst (CPT 20615) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20615-draining-and-injecting-a-bone-cyst