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Procedure price report · Treatment, facial fracture or dislocation

Complex jaw joint dislocation reset without surgery

CPT 21485the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical repositioning of a complicated or repeatedly dislocating jaw joint, including fixation of the jaws together or splinting to hold it.

Hospitals typically charge $2,171 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 571 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,378. Most fall between $963 and $4,066 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
571
States
47
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 571 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
$586$1,143$2,171$4,015$5,107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $5,107).

How the prices are spread

$438 – $580: 29 hospitals$438$580 – $769: 27 hospitals$769 – $1,019: 37 hospitals$769$1,019 – $1,350: 48 hospitals$1,350 – $1,788: 69 hospitals$1,350$1,788 – $2,369: 83 hospitals$2,369 – $3,139: 38 hospitals$2,369$3,139 – $4,158: 101 hospitals$4,158 – $5,509: 64 hospitals$4,158$5,509 – $7,299: 19 hospitals$5,509median $2,171price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (515 of 571 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$438$58029
$580$76927
$769$1,01937
$1,019$1,35048
$1,350$1,78869
$1,788$2,36983
$2,369$3,13938
$3,139$4,158101
$4,158$5,50964
$5,509$7,29919

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$2,171
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.37×

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 $2,171.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $4,054 across 11 hospitalsID$4,054Montana: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,390 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,390Wisconsin: median $4,397 across 19 hospitalsWI$4,397Michigan: median $939 across 28 hospitalsMI$939New York: median $2,785 across 41 hospitalsNY$2,785Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,284 across 15 hospitalsOR$3,284Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,171 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,171Indiana: median $673 across 19 hospitalsIN$673Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,524 across 27 hospitalsPA$1,524New Jersey: median $3,783 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,783Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,066 across 32 hospitalsCA$4,066Utah: median $401 across 22 hospitalsUT$401Colorado: median $1,260 across 13 hospitalsCO$1,260Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,069 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,069New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,247 across 18 hospitalsOK$1,247Louisiana: median $1,355 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,355Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,445 across 77 hospitalsTX$3,445Florida: median $4,798 across 37 hospitalsFL$4,798
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,171. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL37$4,798+121%$2,109 – $5,107
Wisconsin WI19$4,397+102%$2,123 – $4,397
California CA32$4,066+87%$1,985 – $4,066
Idaho ID11$4,054+87%$1,435 – $4,054
New Jersey NJ24$3,783+74%$1,640 – $5,419
Texas TX77$3,445+59%$2,247 – $5,530
Oregon OR15$3,284+51%$2,490 – $3,741
New York NY41$2,785+28%$1,753 – $4,868
Iowa IA16$2,1710%$2,171 – $3,607
Pennsylvania PA27$1,524−30%$485 – $3,030
Illinois IL16$1,390−36%$764 – $2,261
Louisiana LA11$1,355−38%$1,085 – $2,010
Colorado CO13$1,260−42%$155 – $2,274
Oklahoma OK18$1,247−43%$1,247 – $2,890
Arizona AZ11$1,069−51%$1,069 – $1,069
Michigan MI28$939−57%$939 – $2,133
Indiana IN19$673−69%$447 – $764
Utah UT22$401−82%$329 – $438
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $2,171.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care476$2,215$1,069 – $4,066
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access82$1,824$722 – $4,285
Ownership
For-profit61$2,215$988 – $4,054
Government79$1,809$1,028 – $3,463
Non-profit430$2,247$939 – $4,087
System affiliation
Part of a system499$2,247$939 – $4,350
Independent72$1,719$1,032 – $2,797

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,809
Median cash price$2,171
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

395 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,362 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,700; most fall between $1,069 and $4,397.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 395 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
$598$1,247$2,362$4,066$5,236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($598 vs $5,236).

Of the 423 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 395 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

571 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 609 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted571
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code609

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 23, 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 Temporomandibular Dislc Comp 1st/Sbsq.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Complex jaw joint dislocation reset without surgery (CPT 21485) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21485-complex-jaw-joint-dislocation-reset-without-surgery