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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Removal of chest wall tumor with ribs and repair

CPT 21602the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a tumor of the chest wall along with the involved rib or ribs, followed by reconstruction of the chest wall; lymph nodes in the center of the chest are not removed.

Hospitals typically charge $3,170 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 216 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,654. Most fall between $2,066 and $6,564 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
216
States
41
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 216 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
$1,447$2,375$3,170$5,769$9,978

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,447 vs $9,978).

How the prices are spread

$991 – $1,291: 8 hospitals$991$1,291 – $1,682: 9 hospitals$1,682 – $2,192: 18 hospitals$1,682$2,192 – $2,856: 44 hospitals$2,856 – $3,720: 30 hospitals$2,856$3,720 – $4,846: 24 hospitals$4,846 – $6,314: 28 hospitals$4,846$6,314 – $8,225: 11 hospitals$8,225 – $10,716: 17 hospitals$8,225$10,716 – $13,960: 7 hospitals$10,716median $3,170price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (196 of 216 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$991$1,2918
$1,291$1,6829
$1,682$2,19218
$2,192$2,85644
$2,856$3,72030
$3,720$4,84624
$4,846$6,31428
$6,314$8,22511
$8,225$10,71617
$10,716$13,9607

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,170
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.43×

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 $3,170.

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: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,704 across 11 hospitalsIL$3,704Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,936 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,936New York: median $7,413 across 14 hospitalsNY$7,413Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,824 across 10 hospitalsOR$2,824Nevada: 2 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 $3,872 across 14 hospitalsIA$3,872Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,121 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,121New Jersey: median $5,339 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,170 across 25 hospitalsCA$3,170Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,498 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,498Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,170. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY14$7,413+134%$3,710 – $9,058
New Jersey NJ14$5,339+68%$4,350 – $6,311
Iowa IA14$3,872+22%$3,872 – $3,872
Illinois IL11$3,704+17%$2,435 – $6,844
California CA25$3,1700%$3,170 – $3,170
Oregon OR10$2,824−11%$2,824 – $5,018
Oklahoma OK11$2,498−21%$2,498 – $2,498
Michigan MI22$1,936−39%$1,936 – $2,682
Pennsylvania PA16$1,121−65%$948 – $12,525
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $3,170.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care187$3,170$2,060 – $6,458
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$2,770$2,061 – $6,844
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government22$4,075$2,207 – $7,413
Non-profit176$3,170$1,936 – $6,117
System affiliation
Part of a system178$3,170$2,169 – $6,564
Independent38$3,710$1,958 – $8,904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,663
Median cash price$3,170
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

123 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,916 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,023; most fall between $2,231 and $4,543.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 123 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
$1,399$2,435$2,916$3,872$6,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,399 vs $6,458).

Of the 140 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 123 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

216 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 254 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted216
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code254

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 Ch Wal Tum W/Rib W/O Medstnl Lymphadec.

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 chest wall tumor with ribs and repair (CPT 21602) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21602-removal-of-chest-wall-tumor-with-ribs-and-repair