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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Removal of a deep foreign object from the shoulder

CPT 23333the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out an object lodged deep in the shoulder, beneath the tissue covering or within the muscle.

Hospitals typically charge $2,179 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 599 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,495. Most fall between $911 and $4,740 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
599
States
46
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 599 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
$731$1,138$2,179$4,377$6,572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($731 vs $6,572).

How the prices are spread

$530 – $692: 30 hospitals$530$692 – $903: 64 hospitals$903 – $1,179: 45 hospitals$903$1,179 – $1,539: 38 hospitals$1,539 – $2,010: 80 hospitals$1,539$2,010 – $2,624: 42 hospitals$2,624 – $3,426: 81 hospitals$2,624$3,426 – $4,473: 57 hospitals$4,473 – $5,840: 63 hospitals$4,473$5,840 – $7,625: 50 hospitals$5,840median $2,179price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (550 of 599 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$530$69230
$692$90364
$903$1,17945
$1,179$1,53938
$1,539$2,01080
$2,010$2,62442
$2,624$3,42681
$3,426$4,47357
$4,473$5,84063
$5,840$7,62550

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,179
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $2,179.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,976 across 17 hospitalsWA$4,976Idaho: median $3,193 across 12 hospitalsID$3,193Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,062 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,062Wisconsin: median $2,179 across 28 hospitalsWI$2,179Michigan: median $676 across 30 hospitalsMI$676New York: median $3,387 across 34 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,581 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,581Nevada: 3 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 $1,138 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,138Indiana: median $1,738 across 10 hospitalsIN$1,738Ohio: median $1,139 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,139Pennsylvania: median $3,356 across 12 hospitalsPA$3,356New Jersey: median $3,819 across 28 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,627 across 75 hospitalsCA$3,627Utah: median $891 across 22 hospitalsUT$891Colorado: median $6,996 across 11 hospitalsCO$6,996Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,426 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,426North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $4,651 across 17 hospitalsSC$4,651Oklahoma: median $772 across 14 hospitalsOK$772Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $1,780 across 14 hospitalsMS$1,780Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,278 across 20 hospitalsGA$3,278Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,770 across 63 hospitalsTX$1,770Florida: median $2,906 across 25 hospitalsFL$2,906
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,179. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO11$6,996+221%$1,071 – $7,529
Washington WA17$4,976+128%$1,688 – $6,410
South Carolina SC17$4,651+113%$4,649 – $7,350
New Jersey NJ28$3,819+75%$3,171 – $5,339
California CA75$3,627+66%$2,115 – $4,788
New York NY34$3,387+55%$1,215 – $4,582
Pennsylvania PA12$3,356+54%$1,734 – $5,393
Georgia GA20$3,278+50%$3,278 – $4,377
Idaho ID12$3,193+47%$962 – $7,765
Florida FL25$2,906+33%$2,873 – $7,625
Wisconsin WI28$2,1790%$2,179 – $2,360
Mississippi MS14$1,780−18%$1,478 – $3,337
Texas TX63$1,770−19%$1,429 – $3,639
Indiana IN10$1,738−20%$707 – $3,058
Oregon OR18$1,581−27%$892 – $7,697
Tennessee TN12$1,426−35%$462 – $2,218
Ohio OH14$1,139−48%$715 – $2,734
Iowa IA15$1,138−48%$1,138 – $1,138
Illinois IL21$1,062−51%$575 – $3,355
Utah UT22$891−59%$864 – $990
Oklahoma OK14$772−65%$772 – $4,142
Michigan MI30$676−69%$530 – $2,179
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,179.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care479$2,620$1,006 – $4,788
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access109$1,734$836 – $4,433
Ownership
For-profit63$2,179$981 – $4,649
Government88$1,908$904 – $4,641
Non-profit447$2,179$912 – $4,788
System affiliation
Part of a system497$2,360$990 – $4,788
Independent102$1,629$845 – $4,264

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,353
Median cash price$2,179
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

420 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,962 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,520; most fall between $905 and $4,788.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 420 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
$772$1,138$1,962$4,377$6,692

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($772 vs $6,692).

Of the 465 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 420 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

599 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 667 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted599
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code667

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 musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Removal Shoulder Foreign Body Deep Subfascial/Im.

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 deep foreign object from the shoulder (CPT 23333) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23333-removal-of-a-deep-foreign-object-from-the-shoulder