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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Wide removal of a soft tissue tumor of the back, under 5 cm

CPT 21935the billing code this page is about

Extensive surgery that removes a soft tissue tumor of the back or flank along with a margin of surrounding tissue, for a tumor smaller than 5 centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $3,012 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 337 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,015. Most fall between $1,696 and $4,945 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
337
States
44
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 337 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
$1,168$1,898$3,012$4,268$6,406

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,168 vs $6,406).

How the prices are spread

$920 – $1,129: 13 hospitals$920$1,129 – $1,387: 19 hospitals$1,387 – $1,703: 21 hospitals$1,387$1,703 – $2,091: 27 hospitals$2,091 – $2,568: 46 hospitals$2,091$2,568 – $3,153: 41 hospitals$3,153 – $3,872: 58 hospitals$3,153$3,872 – $4,755: 19 hospitals$4,755 – $5,838: 20 hospitals$4,755$5,838 – $7,169: 41 hospitals$5,838median $3,012price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (305 of 337 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$920$1,12913
$1,129$1,38719
$1,387$1,70321
$1,703$2,09127
$2,091$2,56846
$2,568$3,15341
$3,153$3,87258
$3,872$4,75519
$4,755$5,83820
$5,838$7,16941

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$3,012
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.02×

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 $3,012.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,518 across 15 hospitalsIL$2,518Wisconsin: median $2,770 across 17 hospitalsWI$2,770Michigan: median $2,196 across 24 hospitalsMI$2,196New York: median $3,387 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,504 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,504Nevada: 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 $2,518 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,518Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,090 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,090New Jersey: median $3,819 across 30 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,406 across 24 hospitalsCA$6,406Utah: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,681 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,681Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,012 across 22 hospitalsTX$3,012Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,012. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA24$6,406+113%$6,406 – $6,406
New Jersey NJ30$3,819+27%$3,171 – $5,339
New York NY26$3,387+12%$1,673 – $3,448
Texas TX22$3,0120%$3,012 – $3,253
Wisconsin WI17$2,770−8%$2,770 – $4,945
Iowa IA16$2,518−16%$2,518 – $2,518
Illinois IL15$2,518−16%$1,168 – $3,492
Oregon OR11$2,504−17%$1,874 – $3,337
Michigan MI24$2,196−27%$2,196 – $3,470
Pennsylvania PA20$2,090−31%$631 – $4,839
Oklahoma OK13$1,681−44%$1,681 – $1,681
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,012.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care273$3,012$1,707 – $5,110
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$2,546$1,225 – $4,945
Ownership
For-profit32$2,883$1,168 – $6,312
Government55$2,640$1,722 – $3,531
Non-profit249$3,012$1,696 – $4,955
System affiliation
Part of a system281$3,128$1,681 – $5,393
Independent56$2,297$1,834 – $3,449

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,798
Median cash price$3,012
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

196 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,770 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,332; most fall between $1,681 and $6,406.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 196 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
$1,168$1,681$2,770$4,866$6,588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,168 vs $6,588).

Of the 214 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 196 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

337 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 365 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted337
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code365

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rad Resection Tumor Soft Tissue Back/Flank <5cm.

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, “Wide removal of a soft tissue tumor of the back, under 5 cm (CPT 21935) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21935-wide-removal-of-a-soft-tissue-tumor-of-the-back-under-5-cm