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Lower jaw reshaping surgery with plates or screws

CPT 21196the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting and repositioning of the lower jaw body or jaw angle, secured with internal rigid plates or screws.

Hospitals typically charge $5,419 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 241 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,741. Most fall between $2,478 and $11,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
241
States
40
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 241 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
$1,634$2,607$5,419$9,800$17,081

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,634 vs $17,081).

How the prices are spread

$1,081 – $1,536: 13 hospitals$1,081$1,536 – $2,183: 10 hospitals$2,183 – $3,103: 50 hospitals$2,183$3,103 – $4,409: 25 hospitals$4,409 – $6,266: 23 hospitals$4,409$6,266 – $8,904: 45 hospitals$8,904 – $12,654: 29 hospitals$8,904$12,654 – $17,983: 11 hospitals$17,983 – $25,555: 3 hospitals$17,983$25,555 – $36,317: 10 hospitals$25,555median $5,419price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (219 of 241 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,081$1,53613
$1,536$2,18310
$2,183$3,10350
$3,103$4,40925
$4,409$6,26623
$6,266$8,90445
$8,904$12,65429
$12,654$17,98311
$17,983$25,5553
$25,555$36,31710

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$5,419
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $5,419.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $9,900 across 14 hospitalsMN$9,900Illinois: median $2,505 across 11 hospitalsIL$2,505Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $7,000 across 22 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $3,623 across 10 hospitalsOH$3,623Pennsylvania: median $1,035 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,035New Jersey: median $6,548 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,798 across 18 hospitalsCA$2,798Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 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 $2,337 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,337Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,419. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN14$9,900+83%$4,075 – $9,900
New York NY22$7,000+29%$7,000 – $7,390
New Jersey NJ29$6,548+21%$4,881 – $10,474
Ohio OH10$3,623−33%$2,600 – $6,090
California CA18$2,798−48%$2,798 – $2,798
Illinois IL11$2,505−54%$1,084 – $3,304
Oklahoma OK13$2,337−57%$2,337 – $2,337
Pennsylvania PA16$1,035−81%$876 – $10,001
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $5,419.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care203$5,416$2,337 – $10,113
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$9,900$2,626 – $11,110
Ownership
For-profit27$5,064$1,084 – $8,540
Government36$5,355$2,541 – $19,222
Non-profit178$5,419$2,554 – $11,110
System affiliation
Part of a system192$6,311$2,370 – $11,110
Independent49$3,828$2,505 – $7,659

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,380
Median cash price$5,419
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.

How complete is this

241 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 275 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted241
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code275

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

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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, “Lower jaw reshaping surgery with plates or screws (CPT 21196) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21196-lower-jaw-reshaping-surgery-with-plates-or-screws