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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Pressure monitoring inside a muscle compartment

CPT 20950the billing code this page is about

Inserting a device and measuring fluid pressure within a muscle compartment to check for dangerous pressure build-up; includes placing the monitoring device.

Hospitals typically charge $684 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,117 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $691. Most fall between $317 and $1,225 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,117
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 1,117 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
$189$380$684$1,089$1,994

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($189 vs $1,994).

How the prices are spread

$146 – $194: 66 hospitals$146$194 – $260: 57 hospitals$260 – $347: 80 hospitals$260$347 – $463: 154 hospitals$463 – $619: 115 hospitals$463$619 – $826: 146 hospitals$826 – $1,104: 176 hospitals$826$1,104 – $1,474: 109 hospitals$1,474 – $1,969: 41 hospitals$1,474$1,969 – $2,630: 65 hospitals$1,969median $684price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,009 of 1,117 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$146$19466
$194$26057
$260$34780
$347$463154
$463$619115
$619$826146
$826$1,104176
$1,104$1,474109
$1,474$1,96941
$1,969$2,63065

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$684
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

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 $684.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $588 across 10 hospitalsME$588Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $343 across 11 hospitalsNH$343Washington: median $823 across 41 hospitalsWA$823Idaho: median $643 across 13 hospitalsID$643Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $717 across 36 hospitalsMN$717Illinois: median $900 across 53 hospitalsIL$900Wisconsin: median $515 across 65 hospitalsWI$515Michigan: median $880 across 37 hospitalsMI$880New York: median $833 across 46 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $611 across 27 hospitalsMA$611Oregon: median $468 across 34 hospitalsOR$468Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 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 $479 across 20 hospitalsIA$479Indiana: median $518 across 14 hospitalsIN$518Ohio: median $785 across 53 hospitalsOH$785Pennsylvania: median $802 across 55 hospitalsPA$802New Jersey: median $916 across 34 hospitalsNJ$916Connecticut: 9 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 $1,229 across 79 hospitalsCA$1,229Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $652 across 28 hospitalsCO$652Nebraska: median $451 across 19 hospitalsNE$451Missouri: median $775 across 27 hospitalsMO$775Kentucky: median $2,825 across 21 hospitalsKY$2,825West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $467 across 35 hospitalsVA$467Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $236 across 20 hospitalsAZ$236New Mexico: median $733 across 10 hospitalsNM$733Kansas: median $459 across 15 hospitalsKS$459Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $319 across 14 hospitalsTN$319North Carolina: median $394 across 29 hospitalsNC$394South Carolina: median $1,230 across 16 hospitalsSC$1,230Oklahoma: median $239 across 23 hospitalsOK$239Louisiana: median $488 across 16 hospitalsLA$488Mississippi: median $403 across 20 hospitalsMS$403Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $766 across 14 hospitalsGA$766Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $739 across 52 hospitalsTX$739Florida: median $1,063 across 26 hospitalsFL$1,063
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $684. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY21$2,825+313%$422 – $3,634
South Carolina SC16$1,230+80%$526 – $1,422
California CA79$1,229+80%$504 – $1,994
Florida FL26$1,063+55%$596 – $1,063
New Jersey NJ34$916+34%$769 – $5,110
Illinois IL53$900+32%$219 – $1,300
Michigan MI37$880+29%$400 – $974
New York NY46$833+22%$329 – $1,762
Washington WA41$823+20%$274 – $1,474
Pennsylvania PA55$802+17%$83 – $1,046
Ohio OH53$785+15%$446 – $2,104
Missouri MO27$775+13%$404 – $1,213
Georgia GA14$766+12%$187 – $849
Texas TX52$739+8%$441 – $914
New Mexico NM10$733+7%$504 – $995
Minnesota MN36$717+5%$374 – $1,002
Colorado CO28$652−5%$526 – $2,478
Idaho ID13$643−6%$425 – $1,783
Massachusetts MA27$611−11%$269 – $975
Maine ME10$588−14%$222 – $1,065
Indiana IN14$518−24%$316 – $1,388
Wisconsin WI65$515−25%$400 – $684
Louisiana LA16$488−29%$190 – $723
Iowa IA20$479−30%$361 – $900
Oregon OR34$468−32%$338 – $1,096
Virginia VA35$467−32%$340 – $1,190
Kansas KS15$459−33%$213 – $730
Nebraska NE19$451−34%$312 – $639
Mississippi MS20$403−41%$192 – $502
North Carolina NC29$394−42%$188 – $817
New Hampshire NH11$343−50%$79 – $418
Tennessee TN14$319−53%$232 – $435
Oklahoma OK23$239−65%$146 – $725
Arizona AZ20$236−65%$197 – $298
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $684.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care887$730$338 – $1,287
Children’s27$914$364 – $3,584
Critical access202$459$220 – $1,002
Ownership
For-profit88$685$269 – $1,179
Government143$531$210 – $927
Non-profit885$717$342 – $1,276
System affiliation
Part of a system936$725$343 – $1,290
Independent181$515$210 – $923

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,073
Median cash price$684
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

883 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $717 and the average of the middle 60% is $707; most fall between $319 and $1,265.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 883 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
$198$400$717$1,108$1,994

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($198 vs $1,994).

Of the 945 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 883 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,117 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,215 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,117
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,215

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 diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Mntr Interstitial Fluid Pressure Cmprt Syndrome.

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, “Pressure monitoring inside a muscle compartment (CPT 20950) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20950-pressure-monitoring-inside-a-muscle-compartment