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Procedure price report · Treatment, facial fracture or dislocation

Surgical repair of broken lower jaw, teeth not wired

CPT 21461the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to expose and realign a fractured lower jaw and secure it without wiring the upper and lower teeth together.

Hospitals typically charge $4,926 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 297 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,721. Most fall between $1,901 and $7,832 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
297
States
42
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 297 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
$1,710$2,421$4,926$7,180$14,605

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,710 vs $14,605).

How the prices are spread

$927 – $1,221: 11 hospitals$927$1,221 – $1,609: 4 hospitals$1,609 – $2,120: 41 hospitals$1,609$2,120 – $2,793: 33 hospitals$2,793 – $3,679: 22 hospitals$2,793$3,679 – $4,848: 23 hospitals$4,848 – $6,387: 41 hospitals$4,848$6,387 – $8,414: 56 hospitals$8,414 – $11,085: 11 hospitals$8,414$11,085 – $14,605: 30 hospitals$11,085median $4,926price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (272 of 297 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$927$1,22111
$1,221$1,6094
$1,609$2,12041
$2,120$2,79333
$2,793$3,67922
$3,679$4,84823
$4,848$6,38741
$6,387$8,41456
$8,414$11,08511
$11,085$14,60530

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$4,926
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.81×

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 $4,926.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,860 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,860Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $3,453 across 12 hospitalsMI$3,453New York: median $7,000 across 25 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,901 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,901Nevada: 3 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 $4,926 across 16 hospitalsIA$4,926Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,421 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,421Pennsylvania: median $568 across 18 hospitalsPA$568New Jersey: median $6,465 across 25 hospitalsNJ$6,465Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,171 across 40 hospitalsCA$6,171Utah: 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: 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: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals 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 $1,710 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,710Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,180 across 22 hospitalsTX$7,180Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,926. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX22$7,180+46%$7,180 – $7,180
New York NY25$7,000+42%$5,124 – $7,027
New Jersey NJ25$6,465+31%$4,881 – $6,865
California CA40$6,171+25%$2,652 – $14,605
Iowa IA16$4,9260%$4,926 – $4,926
Michigan MI12$3,453−30%$1,670 – $8,140
Ohio OH12$2,421−51%$2,421 – $4,548
Oregon OR10$1,901−61%$1,901 – $6,187
Illinois IL11$1,860−62%$1,815 – $3,725
Oklahoma OK12$1,710−65%$1,710 – $1,710
Pennsylvania PA18$568−88%$484 – $10,001
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not 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
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not 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
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not 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
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $4,926.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care252$4,926$1,901 – $8,140
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access34$4,118$2,070 – $7,180
Ownership
For-profit29$5,341$1,815 – $9,505
Government42$4,330$2,070 – $7,000
Non-profit225$4,926$1,901 – $7,659
System affiliation
Part of a system245$4,926$2,008 – $8,140
Independent52$3,535$1,860 – $6,865

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,185
Median cash price$4,926
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

180 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,136 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,901; most fall between $1,762 and $7,664.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 180 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
$1,109$1,815$3,136$7,180$14,605

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,109 vs $14,605).

Of the 200 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 180 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

297 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 337 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted297
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code337

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 Mandibular Fx W/O Interdental Fixation.

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, “Surgical repair of broken lower jaw, teeth not wired (CPT 21461) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21461-surgical-repair-of-broken-lower-jaw-teeth-not-wired