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Manipulation of the jaw joint under anesthesia

CPT 21073the billing code this page is about

A treatment in which the jaw joint is moved and stretched by hand while the patient is under anesthesia.

Hospitals typically charge $1,619 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 370 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,720. Most fall between $694 and $3,579 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
370
States
40
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 370 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
$398$850$1,619$3,030$5,110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($398 vs $5,110).

How the prices are spread

$251 – $348: 10 hospitals$251$348 – $481: 24 hospitals$481 – $665: 15 hospitals$481$665 – $919: 34 hospitals$919 – $1,272: 52 hospitals$919$1,272 – $1,759: 53 hospitals$1,759 – $2,432: 53 hospitals$1,759$2,432 – $3,364: 31 hospitals$3,364 – $4,652: 39 hospitals$3,364$4,652 – $6,434: 33 hospitals$4,652median $1,619price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (344 of 370 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$251$34810
$348$48124
$481$66515
$665$91934
$919$1,27252
$1,272$1,75953
$1,759$2,43253
$2,432$3,36431
$3,364$4,65239
$4,652$6,43433

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,619
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.02×

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 $1,619.

Alaska: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,212 across 14 hospitalsWA$3,212Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,197 across 16 hospitalsMN$1,197Illinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $1,473 across 17 hospitalsWI$1,473Michigan: median $2,133 across 19 hospitalsMI$2,133New York: median $1,753 across 21 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,133 across 10 hospitalsOR$3,133Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $946 across 17 hospitalsIA$946Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $460 across 20 hospitalsPA$460New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,826 across 46 hospitalsCA$2,826Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $850 across 12 hospitalsTN$850North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $398 across 15 hospitalsOK$398Louisiana: median $853 across 14 hospitalsLA$853Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,207 across 32 hospitalsTX$2,207Florida: median $1,064 across 12 hospitalsFL$1,064
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,619. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+167%$1,641 – $5,419
Washington WA14$3,212+98%$2,672 – $3,836
Oregon OR10$3,133+94%$941 – $3,441
California CA46$2,826+75%$1,249 – $6,434
Texas TX32$2,207+36%$2,011 – $3,958
Michigan MI19$2,133+32%$1,473 – $3,807
New York NY21$1,753+8%$1,585 – $1,753
Wisconsin WI17$1,473−9%$1,473 – $1,473
Minnesota MN16$1,197−26%$1,078 – $1,197
Florida FL12$1,064−34%$1,064 – $1,064
Iowa IA17$946−42%$946 – $3,977
Louisiana LA14$853−47%$627 – $1,969
Tennessee TN12$850−47%$443 – $850
Pennsylvania PA20$460−72%$152 – $2,300
Oklahoma OK15$398−75%$398 – $2,236
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $1,619.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care299$1,753$687 – $3,807
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$1,373$759 – $2,363
Ownership
For-profit27$998$443 – $2,207
Government47$1,062$688 – $1,920
Non-profit296$1,753$835 – $3,807
System affiliation
Part of a system320$1,744$805 – $3,807
Independent50$967$371 – $2,053

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,475
Median cash price$1,619
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

260 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,473 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,768; most fall between $694 and $3,522.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 260 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
$398$850$1,473$3,133$4,670

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($398 vs $4,670).

Of the 271 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 260 gave a usable cash price; 9 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

370 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 388 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted370
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code388

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 23, 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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Manipulation Tmj Therapeutic Require Anesthesia.

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, “Manipulation of the jaw joint under anesthesia (CPT 21073) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21073-manipulation-of-the-jaw-joint-under-anesthesia