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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty other than hip or knee

Open repair of a completely torn rotator cuff

CPT 23420the billing code this page is about

Open reconstruction of a rotator cuff that has pulled completely away from the bone, which may include shaving the tip of the shoulder blade.

Hospitals typically charge $3,520 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 521 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,220. Most fall between $1,741 and $8,454 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
521
States
48
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 521 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
$1,210$1,939$3,520$7,807$14,694

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,210 vs $14,694).

How the prices are spread

$853 – $1,150: 22 hospitals$853$1,150 – $1,552: 38 hospitals$1,552 – $2,093: 70 hospitals$1,552$2,093 – $2,822: 72 hospitals$2,822 – $3,807: 46 hospitals$2,822$3,807 – $5,134: 48 hospitals$5,134 – $6,925: 51 hospitals$5,134$6,925 – $9,340: 57 hospitals$9,340 – $12,597: 28 hospitals$9,340$12,597 – $16,990: 49 hospitals$12,597median $3,520price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (481 of 521 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$853$1,15022
$1,150$1,55238
$1,552$2,09370
$2,093$2,82272
$2,822$3,80746
$3,807$5,13448
$5,134$6,92551
$6,925$9,34057
$9,340$12,59728
$12,597$16,99049

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,520
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.47×

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 $3,520.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,647 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,647Idaho: median $8,240 across 12 hospitalsID$8,240Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,154 across 23 hospitalsMN$5,154Illinois: median $1,814 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,814Wisconsin: median $4,311 across 29 hospitalsWI$4,311Michigan: median $2,715 across 32 hospitalsMI$2,715New York: median $7,413 across 35 hospitalsNY$7,413Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,546 across 16 hospitalsOR$2,546Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,390 across 29 hospitalsIA$2,390Indiana: median $1,421 across 10 hospitalsIN$1,421Ohio: median $3,520 across 14 hospitalsOH$3,520Pennsylvania: median $5,050 across 21 hospitalsPA$5,050New Jersey: median $7,907 across 31 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $16,990 across 34 hospitalsCA$16,990Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,610 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,610Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,034 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,034Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,044 across 14 hospitalsOK$2,044Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,661 across 29 hospitalsTX$6,661Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,520. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA34$16,990+383%$2,875 – $16,990
Idaho ID12$8,240+134%$2,207 – $14,738
New Jersey NJ31$7,907+125%$5,110 – $9,388
New York NY35$7,413+111%$1,440 – $8,454
Texas TX29$6,661+89%$3,755 – $10,394
Minnesota MN23$5,154+46%$2,022 – $6,769
Pennsylvania PA21$5,050+43%$635 – $11,093
Wisconsin WI29$4,311+22%$4,311 – $5,219
Ohio OH14$3,5200%$1,806 – $4,428
Michigan MI32$2,715−23%$1,631 – $4,311
Washington WA11$2,647−25%$2,017 – $4,698
Nebraska NE10$2,610−26%$1,445 – $3,275
Oregon OR16$2,546−28%$1,812 – $3,227
Iowa IA29$2,390−32%$1,993 – $2,845
Oklahoma OK14$2,044−42%$2,044 – $13,819
Illinois IL16$1,814−48%$1,421 – $5,401
Indiana IN10$1,421−60%$1,118 – $2,302
West Virginia WV10$1,034−71%$1,028 – $2,624
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $3,520.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care358$4,350$1,812 – $9,882
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access155$2,715$1,587 – $5,219
Ownership
For-profit62$6,943$2,379 – $15,106
Government104$2,721$1,759 – $7,530
Non-profit354$3,520$1,617 – $8,376
System affiliation
Part of a system393$4,311$1,756 – $9,654
Independent128$2,721$1,631 – $6,943

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,061
Median cash price$3,520
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

269 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,983 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,680; most fall between $1,587 and $7,250.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 269 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
$1,285$1,805$2,983$6,769$15,384

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,285 vs $15,384).

Of the 308 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 269 gave a usable cash price; 20 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

521 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 593 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted521
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 — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code593

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 Arthroplasty other than hip or knee family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Reconstruction Rotator Cuff Avulsion Chronic.

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, “Open repair of a completely torn rotator cuff (CPT 23420) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23420-open-repair-of-a-completely-torn-rotator-cuff