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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Repair of a separated breastbone

CPT 21750the billing code this page is about

Surgery to bring together and secure a breastbone that has pulled apart, with or without cleaning out damaged tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $1,675 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 278 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,164. Most fall between $1,064 and $4,674 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
278
States
42
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 278 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
$670$1,108$1,675$3,944$7,672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($670 vs $7,672).

How the prices are spread

$416 – $568: 11 hospitals$416$568 – $775: 15 hospitals$775 – $1,057: 13 hospitals$775$1,057 – $1,442: 50 hospitals$1,442 – $1,967: 51 hospitals$1,442$1,967 – $2,682: 21 hospitals$2,682 – $3,659: 26 hospitals$2,682$3,659 – $4,991: 27 hospitals$4,991 – $6,808: 15 hospitals$4,991$6,808 – $9,286: 24 hospitals$6,808median $1,675price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (253 of 278 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$416$56811
$568$77515
$775$1,05713
$1,057$1,44250
$1,442$1,96751
$1,967$2,68221
$2,682$3,65926
$3,659$4,99127
$4,991$6,80815
$6,808$9,28624

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$1,675
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.23×

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 $1,675.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital 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 $1,613 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,613Wisconsin: median $3,944 across 27 hospitalsWI$3,944Michigan: median $1,666 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,666New York: median $2,042 across 22 hospitalsNY$2,042Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $238 across 10 hospitalsOR$238Nevada: 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 $1,660 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,660Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,859 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,859Pennsylvania: median $492 across 16 hospitalsPA$492New Jersey: median $4,350 across 20 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 7 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 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 $1,108 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,108Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,675. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ20$4,350+160%$1,064 – $5,741
Wisconsin WI27$3,944+135%$3,230 – $7,672
New York NY22$2,042+22%$1,321 – $8,428
Ohio OH12$1,859+11%$1,250 – $2,964
Michigan MI28$1,666−1%$1,666 – $3,944
Iowa IA16$1,660−1%$1,660 – $1,660
Illinois IL11$1,613−4%$1,086 – $1,675
Oklahoma OK12$1,108−34%$1,108 – $1,108
Pennsylvania PA16$492−71%$416 – $5,318
Oregon OR10$238−86%$238 – $2,187
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $1,675.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care223$1,666$1,044 – $4,881
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access43$3,230$1,086 – $3,944
Ownership
For-profit29$1,933$1,086 – $9,867
Government32$1,674$1,184 – $5,683
Non-profit216$1,666$1,064 – $3,944
System affiliation
Part of a system221$1,675$1,064 – $4,627
Independent57$1,804$1,101 – $4,674

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,218
Median cash price$1,675
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

165 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,369 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,557; most fall between $958 and $3,098.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 165 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
$668$1,086$1,369$2,355$3,944

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($668 vs $3,944).

Of the 191 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 165 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

278 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 324 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted278
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 code324

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Close Median Sternotomy Sep W/WO Debridement Spx.

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, “Repair of a separated breastbone (CPT 21750) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21750-repair-of-a-separated-breastbone