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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty other than hip or knee

Partial shoulder replacement

CPT 23470the billing code this page is about

Surgery that replaces the ball of the upper arm bone with an artificial part while leaving the natural shoulder socket in place.

Hospitals typically charge $5,052 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 578 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,837. Most fall between $2,013 and $16,960 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
578
States
48
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 578 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
$1,363$2,252$5,052$15,226$25,175

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,363 vs $25,175).

How the prices are spread

$1,127 – $1,590: 51 hospitals$1,127$1,590 – $2,242: 62 hospitals$2,242 – $3,163: 89 hospitals$2,242$3,163 – $4,463: 41 hospitals$4,463 – $6,295: 58 hospitals$4,463$6,295 – $8,881: 31 hospitals$8,881 – $12,528: 39 hospitals$8,881$12,528 – $17,673: 81 hospitals$17,673 – $24,932: 40 hospitals$17,673$24,932 – $35,171: 30 hospitals$24,932median $5,052price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (522 of 578 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,127$1,59051
$1,590$2,24262
$2,242$3,16389
$3,163$4,46341
$4,463$6,29558
$6,295$8,88131
$8,881$12,52839
$12,528$17,67381
$17,673$24,93240
$24,932$35,17130

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$13,117
Median cash price$5,052
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.39×

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 $5,052.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,843 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,843Idaho: median $15,889 across 11 hospitalsID$15,889Montana: median $2,794 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,794North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,984 across 24 hospitalsMN$5,984Illinois: median $2,195 across 19 hospitalsIL$2,195Wisconsin: median $6,108 across 38 hospitalsWI$6,108Michigan: median $3,124 across 31 hospitalsMI$3,124New York: median $13,117 across 38 hospitalsNY$13,117Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,379 across 17 hospitalsOR$3,379Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $2,961 across 28 hospitalsIA$2,961Indiana: median $1,589 across 10 hospitalsIN$1,589Ohio: median $4,651 across 16 hospitalsOH$4,651Pennsylvania: median $8,376 across 21 hospitalsPA$8,376New Jersey: median $14,242 across 32 hospitalsNJ$14,242Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $19,544 across 37 hospitalsCA$19,544Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $3,220 across 12 hospitalsNE$3,220Missouri: median $12,374 across 10 hospitalsMO$12,374Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,994 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,994Virginia: 6 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,245 across 14 hospitalsKS$2,245Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 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 $1,971 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,971Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $13,009 across 12 hospitalsAL$13,009Georgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $10,629 across 28 hospitalsTX$10,629Florida: median $4,651 across 10 hospitalsFL$4,651
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,052. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA37$19,544+287%$2,444 – $19,544
Idaho ID11$15,889+215%$2,290 – $19,343
New Jersey NJ32$14,242+182%$5,339 – $17,626
New York NY38$13,117+160%$2,005 – $15,239
Alabama AL12$13,009+157%$3,393 – $24,796
Missouri MO10$12,374+145%$1,907 – $21,628
Texas TX28$10,629+110%$8,813 – $12,250
Pennsylvania PA21$8,376+66%$776 – $21,753
Wisconsin WI38$6,108+21%$5,582 – $14,094
Minnesota MN24$5,984+18%$2,335 – $8,057
Florida FL10$4,651−8%$3,432 – $25,654
Ohio OH16$4,651−8%$2,876 – $39,553
Oregon OR17$3,379−33%$2,209 – $3,949
Nebraska NE12$3,220−36%$1,314 – $4,054
Michigan MI31$3,124−38%$2,335 – $5,582
Iowa IA28$2,961−41%$2,250 – $3,107
Washington WA11$2,843−44%$2,588 – $6,851
Montana MT11$2,794−45%$1,764 – $5,513
Kansas KS14$2,245−56%$1,609 – $12,095
Illinois IL19$2,195−57%$1,589 – $6,011
West Virginia WV11$1,994−61%$1,247 – $3,340
Oklahoma OK15$1,971−61%$1,971 – $19,621
Indiana IN10$1,589−69%$1,589 – $5,966
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not 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

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 $5,052.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care410$7,430$2,209 – $19,544
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access160$2,918$1,724 – $6,867
Ownership
For-profit67$13,964$2,876 – $28,922
Government108$3,393$2,110 – $15,226
Non-profit402$4,690$1,971 – $16,026
System affiliation
Part of a system439$5,582$1,971 – $17,654
Independent139$3,781$2,136 – $13,042

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,953
Median cash price$5,052
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

278 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,961 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,504; most fall between $1,676 and $12,778.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, 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
$1,278$1,971$2,961$10,629$19,544

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,278 vs $19,544).

Of the 314 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 278 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 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

578 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 652 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted578
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code652

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 PR Reconstruct Prox Humeral Implant.

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, “Partial shoulder replacement (CPT 23470) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23470-partial-shoulder-replacement