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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty other than hip or knee

Jaw joint reconstruction surgery, graft optional

CPT 21240the billing code this page is about

Surgical rebuilding of the jaw joint in front of the ear, with or without a graft of the patient's own tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $6,383 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 239 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,779. Most fall between $1,723 and $10,126 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
239
States
37
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 239 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
$1,411$2,273$6,383$8,913$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,411 vs $11,934).

How the prices are spread

$1,013 – $1,307: 12 hospitals$1,013$1,307 – $1,688: 14 hospitals$1,688 – $2,179: 22 hospitals$1,688$2,179 – $2,814: 21 hospitals$2,814 – $3,633: 7 hospitals$2,814$3,633 – $4,691: 15 hospitals$4,691 – $6,058: 12 hospitals$4,691$6,058 – $7,821: 52 hospitals$7,821 – $10,099: 23 hospitals$7,821$10,099 – $13,039: 39 hospitals$10,099median $6,383price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (217 of 239 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,013$1,30712
$1,307$1,68814
$1,688$2,17922
$2,179$2,81421
$2,814$3,6337
$3,633$4,69115
$4,691$6,05812
$6,058$7,82152
$7,821$10,09923
$10,099$13,03939

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$6,383
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $6,383.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,820 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,820Wisconsin: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,702 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,702Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,908 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,908New Jersey: median $6,548 across 30 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,934 across 21 hospitalsCA$11,934Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,719 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,719Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $7,318 across 21 hospitalsTX$7,318Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,383. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA21$11,934+87%$11,934 – $11,934
Texas TX21$7,318+15%$5,657 – $7,755
New York NY22$7,000+10%$7,000 – $7,390
New Jersey NJ30$6,548+3%$5,110 – $7,894
Pennsylvania PA19$3,908−39%$648 – $10,001
Iowa IA15$2,702−58%$2,702 – $2,702
Illinois IL10$1,820−71%$1,640 – $2,620
Oklahoma OK12$1,719−73%$1,719 – $1,719
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $6,383.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care210$6,465$1,765 – $9,505
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$7,755$1,640 – $10,126
Ownership
For-profit26$4,696$1,640 – $8,913
Government29$7,000$1,864 – $10,988
Non-profit184$6,465$1,719 – $10,126
System affiliation
Part of a system201$6,839$1,719 – $10,126
Independent38$3,908$1,846 – $8,540

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,870
Median cash price$6,383
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

128 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,480 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,124; most fall between $1,719 and $11,934.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 128 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
$1,490$1,719$3,480$9,983$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,490 vs $11,934).

Of the 139 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 128 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

239 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 257 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted239
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code257

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 Arthroplasty other than hip or knee family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrp Temporomandibular Joint W/WO Autograft.

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, “Jaw joint reconstruction surgery, graft optional (CPT 21240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21240-jaw-joint-reconstruction-surgery-graft-optional