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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Drainage of deep abscess in the shoulder

CPT 23030the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting and draining of a deep pocket of pus or collected blood in the shoulder area.

Hospitals typically charge $1,918 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 781 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,132. Most fall between $589 and $4,841 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
781
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 781 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
$421$675$1,918$3,994$7,765

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($421 vs $7,765).

How the prices are spread

$333 – $461: 69 hospitals$333$461 – $638: 81 hospitals$638 – $883: 55 hospitals$638$883 – $1,222: 74 hospitals$1,222 – $1,691: 57 hospitals$1,222$1,691 – $2,340: 69 hospitals$2,340 – $3,237: 65 hospitals$2,340$3,237 – $4,479: 87 hospitals$4,479 – $6,197: 64 hospitals$4,479$6,197 – $8,574: 82 hospitals$6,197median $1,918price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (703 of 781 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$333$46169
$461$63881
$638$88355
$883$1,22274
$1,222$1,69157
$1,691$2,34069
$2,340$3,23765
$3,237$4,47987
$4,479$6,19764
$6,197$8,57482

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$1,918
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.65×

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 $1,918.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $681 across 10 hospitalsVT$681New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,581 across 25 hospitalsWA$4,581Idaho: median $1,957 across 15 hospitalsID$1,957Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,606 across 24 hospitalsMN$1,606Illinois: median $464 across 22 hospitalsIL$464Wisconsin: median $2,043 across 43 hospitalsWI$2,043Michigan: median $638 across 39 hospitalsMI$638New York: median $3,387 across 40 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,476 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,476Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,062 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,062Indiana: median $483 across 12 hospitalsIN$483Ohio: median $3,749 across 31 hospitalsOH$3,749Pennsylvania: median $2,969 across 18 hospitalsPA$2,969New Jersey: median $3,758 across 28 hospitalsNJ$3,758Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,529 across 79 hospitalsCA$4,529Utah: median $369 across 19 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $1,378 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,378Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $988 across 14 hospitalsMO$988Kentucky: median $437 across 12 hospitalsKY$437West Virginia: median $275 across 14 hospitalsWV$275Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $588 across 11 hospitalsKS$588Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,310 across 13 hospitalsTN$1,310North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $4,126 across 10 hospitalsSC$4,126Oklahoma: median $421 across 16 hospitalsOK$421Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,609 across 11 hospitalsGA$4,609Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,905 across 51 hospitalsTX$3,905Florida: median $2,873 across 15 hospitalsFL$2,873
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,918. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$4,609+140%$2,899 – $4,609
Washington WA25$4,581+139%$660 – $7,108
California CA79$4,529+136%$2,115 – $8,574
South Carolina SC10$4,126+115%$1,247 – $10,733
Texas TX51$3,905+104%$2,903 – $5,009
New Jersey NJ28$3,758+96%$3,168 – $5,741
Ohio OH31$3,749+95%$902 – $8,557
New York NY40$3,387+77%$706 – $3,555
Pennsylvania PA18$2,969+55%$570 – $5,152
Florida FL15$2,873+50%$902 – $5,627
Wisconsin WI43$2,043+7%$1,193 – $2,254
Idaho ID15$1,957+2%$487 – $7,765
Minnesota MN24$1,606−16%$629 – $2,109
Oregon OR30$1,476−23%$801 – $6,970
Colorado CO17$1,378−28%$626 – $7,529
Tennessee TN13$1,310−32%$454 – $3,632
Iowa IA22$1,062−45%$706 – $1,062
Missouri MO14$988−48%$591 – $2,368
Vermont VT10$681−65%$616 – $1,189
Michigan MI39$638−67%$570 – $2,043
Kansas KS11$588−69%$468 – $2,152
Indiana IN12$483−75%$422 – $1,800
Illinois IL22$464−76%$290 – $1,293
Kentucky KY12$437−77%$422 – $467
Oklahoma OK16$421−78%$421 – $5,835
Utah UT19$369−81%$362 – $545
West Virginia WV14$275−86%$269 – $695
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $1,918.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care570$2,498$638 – $5,644
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access193$1,062$483 – $2,498
Ownership
For-profit76$2,498$684 – $5,033
Government128$1,193$587 – $4,581
Non-profit574$2,043$570 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system612$2,226$616 – $5,815
Independent169$1,116$480 – $2,975

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,397
Median cash price$1,918
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

500 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,732 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,123; most fall between $524 and $5,393.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 500 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
$419$610$1,732$4,529$8,557

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($419 vs $8,557).

Of the 559 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 500 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

781 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 873 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted781
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code873

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 Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D Shoulder Deep Abscess/Hematoma.

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, “Drainage of deep abscess in the shoulder (CPT 23030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23030-drainage-of-deep-abscess-in-the-shoulder