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Procedure price report · Treatment, facial fracture or dislocation

Complex surgical repair of upper jaw or palate fracture

CPT 21423the billing code this page is about

Open surgery for a complicated or multi-piece break of the palate or upper jaw, needing more than one surgical approach or added fixation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,837 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 178 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,314. Most fall between $937 and $5,355 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
178
States
38
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 178 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
$738$1,150$1,837$4,687$7,289

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($738 vs $7,289).

How the prices are spread

$580 – $755: 18 hospitals$580$755 – $983: 13 hospitals$983 – $1,281: 17 hospitals$983$1,281 – $1,668: 30 hospitals$1,668 – $2,172: 12 hospitals$1,668$2,172 – $2,829: 17 hospitals$2,829 – $3,685: 8 hospitals$2,829$3,685 – $4,799: 13 hospitals$4,799 – $6,250: 17 hospitals$4,799$6,250 – $8,140: 18 hospitals$6,250median $1,837price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (163 of 178 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$580$75518
$755$98313
$983$1,28117
$1,281$1,66830
$1,668$2,17212
$2,172$2,82917
$2,829$3,6858
$3,685$4,79913
$4,799$6,25017
$6,250$8,14018

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$1,837
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.30×

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 $1,837.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 3 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $738 across 22 hospitalsMI$738New York: median $6,048 across 15 hospitalsNY$6,048Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 3 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,370 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,370Pennsylvania: median $580 across 16 hospitalsPA$580New Jersey: median $5,339 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 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 $1,303 across 11 hospitalsOK$1,303Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,837. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY15$6,048+229%$953 – $7,053
New Jersey NJ14$5,339+191%$4,350 – $6,839
Ohio OH12$2,370+29%$1,584 – $2,821
Oklahoma OK11$1,303−29%$1,303 – $1,303
Michigan MI22$738−60%$738 – $1,745
Pennsylvania PA16$580−68%$491 – $4,317
California CA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not 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
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $1,837.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care150$1,955$937 – $5,961
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access19fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit24$2,137$1,150 – $7,289
Government34$1,635$952 – $6,048
Non-profit120$1,837$738 – $4,934
System affiliation
Part of a system130$1,499$845 – $5,110
Independent48$2,122$1,216 – $7,053

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,230
Median cash price$1,837
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

178 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 209 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted178
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code209

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 Treatment, facial fracture or dislocation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Tx Palatal/Maxillary Fx Comp Multiple Appr.

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, “Complex surgical repair of upper jaw or palate fracture (CPT 21423) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21423-complex-surgical-repair-of-upper-jaw-or-palate-fracture