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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Removal of a chest wall tumor including ribs

CPT 21601the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a tumor of the chest wall along with the involved rib or ribs.

Hospitals typically charge $3,198 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 413 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,306. Most fall between $1,783 and $5,334 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
413
States
44
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 413 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
$1,408$1,941$3,198$4,821$7,765

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,408 vs $7,765).

How the prices are spread

$1,121 – $1,389: 12 hospitals$1,121$1,389 – $1,720: 46 hospitals$1,720 – $2,131: 51 hospitals$1,720$2,131 – $2,639: 39 hospitals$2,639 – $3,268: 41 hospitals$2,639$3,268 – $4,048: 72 hospitals$4,048 – $5,014: 36 hospitals$4,048$5,014 – $6,210: 44 hospitals$6,210 – $7,692: 10 hospitals$6,210$7,692 – $9,527: 25 hospitals$7,692median $3,198price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (376 of 413 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,121$1,38912
$1,389$1,72046
$1,720$2,13151
$2,131$2,63939
$2,639$3,26841
$3,268$4,04872
$4,048$5,01436
$5,014$6,21044
$6,210$7,69210
$7,692$9,52725

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$3,198
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

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 $3,198.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,282 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,282Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,118 across 17 hospitalsIL$2,118Wisconsin: median $5,334 across 28 hospitalsWI$5,334Michigan: median $1,957 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,957New York: median $3,387 across 30 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,830 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,830Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,880 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,880Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,623 across 14 hospitalsOH$4,623Pennsylvania: median $2,094 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,094New Jersey: median $4,443 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,443Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,685 across 40 hospitalsCA$3,685Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,619 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,619Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,441 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,441Florida: median $4,623 across 16 hospitalsFL$4,623
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,198. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI28$5,334+67%$4,821 – $9,491
Florida FL16$4,623+45%$4,501 – $8,333
Ohio OH14$4,623+45%$2,312 – $13,835
New Jersey NJ32$4,443+39%$3,171 – $5,419
California CA40$3,685+15%$1,716 – $3,685
New York NY30$3,387+6%$1,907 – $6,192
Iowa IA19$2,880−10%$2,548 – $3,109
Oregon OR11$2,830−12%$2,095 – $3,714
Texas TX22$2,441−24%$2,441 – $3,808
Washington WA11$2,282−29%$2,095 – $6,560
Illinois IL17$2,118−34%$1,826 – $4,842
Pennsylvania PA19$2,094−35%$705 – $4,839
Michigan MI27$1,957−39%$1,408 – $3,994
Oklahoma OK12$1,619−49%$1,619 – $1,619
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $3,198.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care326$3,171$1,716 – $5,110
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$3,198$1,999 – $5,334
Ownership
For-profit35$3,384$1,826 – $5,507
Government59$2,910$2,096 – $3,837
Non-profit318$3,313$1,716 – $5,334
System affiliation
Part of a system334$3,384$1,716 – $5,334
Independent79$2,873$2,018 – $4,681

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,069
Median cash price$3,198
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

215 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,628 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,990; most fall between $1,716 and $5,334.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 215 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
$1,619$1,826$2,628$4,566$6,192

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,619 vs $6,192).

Of the 232 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 215 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

413 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 452 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted413
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code452

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 Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Chest Wall Tumor Including Ribs.

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, “Removal of a chest wall tumor including ribs (CPT 21601) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21601-removal-of-a-chest-wall-tumor-including-ribs