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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Removal of a first or extra neck rib

CPT 21615the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out the first rib or an extra rib arising from the neck vertebrae.

Hospitals typically charge $1,579 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 271 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,389. Most fall between $980 and $6,564 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
271
States
43
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 271 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
$624$1,023$1,579$5,507$9,978

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($624 vs $9,978).

How the prices are spread

$413 – $601: 9 hospitals$413$601 – $876: 26 hospitals$876 – $1,277: 65 hospitals$876$1,277 – $1,860: 35 hospitals$1,860 – $2,710: 21 hospitals$1,860$2,710 – $3,949: 12 hospitals$3,949 – $5,753: 34 hospitals$3,949$5,753 – $8,382: 17 hospitals$8,382 – $12,212: 19 hospitals$8,382$12,212 – $17,792: 11 hospitals$12,212median $1,579price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (249 of 271 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$413$6019
$601$87626
$876$1,27765
$1,277$1,86035
$1,860$2,71021
$2,710$3,94912
$3,949$5,75334
$5,753$8,38217
$8,382$12,21219
$12,212$17,79211

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$1,579
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.21×

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 $1,579.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,246 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,246Wisconsin: median $5,507 across 19 hospitalsWI$5,507Michigan: median $800 across 26 hospitalsMI$800New York: median $5,500 across 21 hospitalsNY$5,500Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,014 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,014Nevada: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,503 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,503Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,600 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,600Pennsylvania: median $473 across 17 hospitalsPA$473New Jersey: median $4,627 across 19 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,023 across 11 hospitalsOK$1,023Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,579. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI19$5,507+249%$5,507 – $6,671
New York NY21$5,500+248%$1,855 – $7,413
New Jersey NJ19$4,627+193%$980 – $5,855
Oregon OR11$2,014+27%$1,142 – $2,014
Ohio OH14$1,600+1%$1,261 – $2,717
Iowa IA15$1,503−5%$1,503 – $1,503
Illinois IL11$1,246−21%$1,035 – $1,606
Oklahoma OK11$1,023−35%$1,023 – $1,023
Michigan MI26$800−49%$624 – $5,507
Pennsylvania PA17$473−70%$385 – $12,525
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not 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
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,579.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care220$1,503$980 – $6,839
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access43$2,014$1,035 – $6,564
Ownership
For-profit28$2,158$1,035 – $10,468
Government27$1,449$990 – $7,413
Non-profit215$1,503$937 – $5,507
System affiliation
Part of a system219$1,606$980 – $6,671
Independent52$1,370$985 – $5,050

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,975
Median cash price$1,579
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

161 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,370 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,635; most fall between $990 and $5,289.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 161 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
$638$1,023$1,370$3,141$6,564

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($638 vs $6,564).

Of the 182 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 161 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

271 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 309 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted271
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code309

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 23, 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 Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision 1st &/Cervical Rib.

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 first or extra neck rib (CPT 21615) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21615-removal-of-a-first-or-extra-neck-rib