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Procedure price report · Treatment, facial fracture or dislocation

Lower jaw fracture care without repositioning

CPT 21450the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a broken lower jaw without surgery and without moving the bone back into position.

Hospitals typically charge $785 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 869 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $907. Most fall between $457 and $1,628 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
869
States
48
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 869 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
$309$524$785$1,485$2,410

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($309 vs $2,410).

How the prices are spread

$246 – $321: 51 hospitals$246$321 – $418: 58 hospitals$418 – $545: 80 hospitals$418$545 – $711: 164 hospitals$711 – $927: 87 hospitals$711$927 – $1,209: 84 hospitals$1,209 – $1,577: 116 hospitals$1,209$1,577 – $2,057: 73 hospitals$2,057 – $2,682: 34 hospitals$2,057$2,682 – $3,497: 36 hospitals$2,682median $785price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (783 of 869 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$246$32151
$321$41858
$418$54580
$545$711164
$711$92787
$927$1,20984
$1,209$1,577116
$1,577$2,05773
$2,057$2,68234
$2,682$3,49736

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$785
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $785.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $995 across 29 hospitalsWA$995Idaho: median $598 across 10 hospitalsID$598Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,161 across 22 hospitalsMN$1,161Illinois: median $841 across 22 hospitalsIL$841Wisconsin: median $2,803 across 26 hospitalsWI$2,803Michigan: median $742 across 19 hospitalsMI$742New York: median $785 across 50 hospitalsNY$785Massachusetts: median $861 across 14 hospitalsMA$861Oregon: median $1,248 across 20 hospitalsOR$1,248Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,420 across 20 hospitalsIA$1,420Indiana: median $608 across 13 hospitalsIN$608Ohio: median $1,523 across 26 hospitalsOH$1,523Pennsylvania: median $670 across 53 hospitalsPA$670New Jersey: median $1,264 across 30 hospitalsNJ$1,264Connecticut: median $859 across 11 hospitalsCT$859Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,456 across 80 hospitalsCA$1,456Utah: median $423 across 24 hospitalsUT$423Colorado: median $1,127 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,127Nebraska: median $642 across 12 hospitalsNE$642Missouri: median $915 across 17 hospitalsMO$915Kentucky: median $587 across 16 hospitalsKY$587West Virginia: median $667 across 10 hospitalsWV$667Virginia: median $402 across 19 hospitalsVA$402Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $301 across 11 hospitalsKS$301Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $325 across 12 hospitalsTN$325North Carolina: median $988 across 21 hospitalsNC$988South Carolina: median $682 across 27 hospitalsSC$682Oklahoma: median $464 across 26 hospitalsOK$464Louisiana: median $311 across 19 hospitalsLA$311Mississippi: median $392 across 13 hospitalsMS$392Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $989 across 21 hospitalsGA$989Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $720 across 53 hospitalsTX$720Florida: median $1,154 across 34 hospitalsFL$1,154
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $785. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI26$2,803+257%$955 – $3,218
Ohio OH26$1,523+94%$1,126 – $1,523
California CA80$1,456+85%$690 – $1,837
Iowa IA20$1,420+81%$309 – $1,420
New Jersey NJ30$1,264+61%$564 – $5,110
Oregon OR20$1,248+59%$902 – $1,817
Minnesota MN22$1,161+48%$780 – $1,485
Florida FL34$1,154+47%$457 – $2,139
Colorado CO12$1,127+44%$710 – $1,331
Washington WA29$995+27%$333 – $1,584
Georgia GA21$989+26%$468 – $1,662
North Carolina NC21$988+26%$289 – $988
Missouri MO17$915+17%$361 – $955
Massachusetts MA14$861+10%$706 – $5,618
Connecticut CT11$859+9%$697 – $2,372
Illinois IL22$841+7%$529 – $1,913
New York NY50$7850%$603 – $1,748
Michigan MI19$742−6%$456 – $1,486
Texas TX53$720−8%$524 – $1,017
South Carolina SC27$682−13%$630 – $1,392
Pennsylvania PA53$670−15%$415 – $1,097
West Virginia WV10$667−15%$600 – $899
Nebraska NE12$642−18%$294 – $1,450
Indiana IN13$608−23%$584 – $1,144
Idaho ID10$598−24%$335 – $1,423
Kentucky KY16$587−25%$502 – $648
Oklahoma OK26$464−41%$228 – $873
Utah UT24$423−46%$329 – $598
Virginia VA19$402−49%$386 – $993
Mississippi MS13$392−50%$126 – $631
Tennessee TN12$325−59%$268 – $669
Louisiana LA19$311−60%$243 – $624
Kansas KS11$301−62%$287 – $587
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $785.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care702$780$457 – $1,628
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access153$910$400 – $1,662
Ownership
For-profit76$670$457 – $1,556
Government136$804$390 – $1,370
Non-profit657$826$461 – $1,707
System affiliation
Part of a system731$785$461 – $1,662
Independent138$778$400 – $1,494

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,445
Median cash price$785
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

666 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $915 and the average of the middle 60% is $982; most fall between $463 and $1,662.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 666 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
$329$524$915$1,523$2,548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($329 vs $2,548).

Of the 716 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 666 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

869 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 946 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted869
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
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 — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code946

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 Closed Tx Mandibular Fracture W/O Manipulation.

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 fracture care without repositioning (CPT 21450) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21450-lower-jaw-fracture-care-without-repositioning