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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Shaving down a noncancerous growth on a facial bone

CPT 21029the billing code this page is about

Surgical contouring of a facial bone to remove a benign bony overgrowth and restore a smoother shape.

Hospitals typically charge $3,637 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 384 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,264. Most fall between $1,274 and $5,057 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
384
States
46
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 384 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
$937$1,510$3,637$4,989$6,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($937 vs $6,839).

How the prices are spread

$652 – $846: 9 hospitals$652$846 – $1,098: 27 hospitals$1,098 – $1,424: 37 hospitals$1,098$1,424 – $1,847: 21 hospitals$1,847 – $2,395: 38 hospitals$1,847$2,395 – $3,107: 20 hospitals$3,107 – $4,030: 81 hospitals$3,107$4,030 – $5,228: 66 hospitals$5,228 – $6,781: 28 hospitals$5,228$6,781 – $8,795: 22 hospitals$6,781median $3,637price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (349 of 384 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$652$8469
$846$1,09827
$1,098$1,42437
$1,424$1,84721
$1,847$2,39538
$2,395$3,10720
$3,107$4,03081
$4,030$5,22866
$5,228$6,78128
$6,781$8,79522

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$3,637
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $3,637.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 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: median $1,667 across 14 hospitalsMN$1,667Illinois: median $1,098 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,098Wisconsin: median $3,637 across 30 hospitalsWI$3,637Michigan: median $2,067 across 17 hospitalsMI$2,067New York: median $3,838 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $1,889 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,889Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,181 across 14 hospitalsOH$2,181Pennsylvania: median $1,737 across 20 hospitalsPA$1,737New Jersey: median $4,327 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,327Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,057 across 31 hospitalsCA$5,057Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,257 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,257Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,672 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,672Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,637. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA31$5,057+39%$3,742 – $5,057
New Jersey NJ30$4,327+19%$3,593 – $5,419
New York NY26$3,838+6%$1,971 – $4,048
Texas TX21$3,672+1%$3,034 – $3,672
Wisconsin WI30$3,6370%$3,637 – $5,575
Ohio OH14$2,181−40%$1,493 – $3,434
Michigan MI17$2,067−43%$1,274 – $4,559
Iowa IA17$1,889−48%$1,889 – $2,067
Pennsylvania PA20$1,737−52%$389 – $5,036
Minnesota MN14$1,667−54%$1,314 – $3,677
Oklahoma OK13$1,257−65%$1,257 – $5,134
Illinois IL12$1,098−70%$1,098 – $1,889
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,637.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care317$3,672$1,274 – $5,057
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access57$3,543$1,324 – $4,989
Ownership
For-profit41$3,742$1,155 – $6,081
Government50$2,392$1,187 – $3,917
Non-profit292$3,637$1,311 – $5,057
System affiliation
Part of a system316$3,637$1,311 – $5,057
Independent68$1,981$1,155 – $5,065

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,887
Median cash price$3,637
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

216 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,513 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,948; most fall between $1,235 and $5,057.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 216 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
$965$1,257$2,513$4,093$5,753

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($965 vs $5,753).

Of the 229 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 216 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

384 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 416 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted384
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code416

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Contour of Face Bone Lesion.

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, “Shaving down a noncancerous growth on a facial bone (CPT 21029) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21029-shaving-down-a-noncancerous-growth-on-a-facial-bone