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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty other than hip or knee

Total shoulder replacement

CPT 23472the billing code this page is about

Surgery that replaces both the ball of the upper arm bone and the shoulder socket with artificial parts, including reverse-type shoulder replacement.

Hospitals typically charge $7,534 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 930 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $9,510. Most fall between $2,775 and $23,702 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
930
States
50
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 930 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
$1,853$3,142$7,534$20,698$37,494

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,853 vs $37,494).

How the prices are spread

$1,260 – $1,837: 46 hospitals$1,260$1,837 – $2,678: 87 hospitals$2,678 – $3,905: 136 hospitals$2,678$3,905 – $5,693: 93 hospitals$5,693 – $8,299: 84 hospitals$5,693$8,299 – $12,100: 81 hospitals$12,100 – $17,641: 89 hospitals$12,100$17,641 – $25,719: 101 hospitals$25,719 – $37,496: 74 hospitals$25,719$37,496 – $54,666: 47 hospitals$37,496median $7,534price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (838 of 930 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,260$1,83746
$1,837$2,67887
$2,678$3,905136
$3,905$5,69393
$5,693$8,29984
$8,299$12,10081
$12,100$17,64189
$17,641$25,719101
$25,719$37,49674
$37,496$54,66647

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$17,914
Median cash price$7,534
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.42×

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 $7,534.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $2,289 across 10 hospitalsVT$2,289New Hampshire: median $2,234 across 13 hospitalsNH$2,234Washington: median $3,538 across 19 hospitalsWA$3,538Idaho: median $13,851 across 19 hospitalsID$13,851Montana: median $4,304 across 14 hospitalsMT$4,304North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,990 across 38 hospitalsMN$5,990Illinois: median $2,803 across 29 hospitalsIL$2,803Wisconsin: median $7,534 across 43 hospitalsWI$7,534Michigan: median $3,209 across 42 hospitalsMI$3,209New York: median $13,784 across 60 hospitalsNY$13,784Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $4,199 across 26 hospitalsOR$4,199Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $3,580 across 44 hospitalsIA$3,580Indiana: median $7,485 across 30 hospitalsIN$7,485Ohio: median $46,240 across 37 hospitalsOH$46,240Pennsylvania: median $13,844 across 29 hospitalsPA$13,844New Jersey: median $20,098 across 35 hospitalsNJ$20,098Connecticut: 8 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 $11,340 across 47 hospitalsCA$11,340Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,477 across 17 hospitalsCO$3,477Nebraska: median $4,833 across 24 hospitalsNE$4,833Missouri: median $17,389 across 24 hospitalsMO$17,389Kentucky: median $3,493 across 14 hospitalsKY$3,493West Virginia: median $4,048 across 22 hospitalsWV$4,048Virginia: median $46,288 across 17 hospitalsVA$46,288Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $21,517 across 12 hospitalsAZ$21,517New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,495 across 25 hospitalsKS$3,495Arkansas: median $4,569 across 11 hospitalsAR$4,569Tennessee: median $15,607 across 17 hospitalsTN$15,607North Carolina: median $6,909 across 12 hospitalsNC$6,909South Carolina: median $26,761 across 15 hospitalsSC$26,761Oklahoma: median $3,030 across 17 hospitalsOK$3,030Louisiana: median $16,536 across 15 hospitalsLA$16,536Mississippi: median $15,436 across 11 hospitalsMS$15,436Alabama: median $15,649 across 15 hospitalsAL$15,649Georgia: median $15,440 across 13 hospitalsGA$15,440Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $17,527 across 26 hospitalsTX$17,527Florida: median $23,872 across 15 hospitalsFL$23,872
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $7,534. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA17$46,288+514%$8,483 – $59,927
Ohio OH37$46,240+514%$4,277 – $59,540
South Carolina SC15$26,761+255%$21,927 – $42,354
Florida FL15$23,872+217%$6,329 – $36,894
Arizona AZ12$21,517+186%$2,351 – $31,317
New Jersey NJ35$20,098+167%$5,110 – $21,657
Texas TX26$17,527+133%$4,547 – $37,741
Missouri MO24$17,389+131%$2,415 – $44,295
Louisiana LA15$16,536+119%$8,703 – $23,137
Alabama AL15$15,649+108%$4,116 – $27,044
Tennessee TN17$15,607+107%$1,602 – $20,698
Georgia GA13$15,440+105%$15,440 – $45,525
Mississippi MS11$15,436+105%$4,692 – $28,695
Idaho ID19$13,851+84%$2,889 – $21,573
Pennsylvania PA29$13,844+84%$935 – $34,653
New York NY60$13,784+83%$2,480 – $21,762
California CA47$11,340+51%$4,121 – $11,340
Wisconsin WI43$7,5340%$5,137 – $9,074
Indiana IN30$7,485−1%$1,908 – $45,432
North Carolina NC12$6,909−8%$3,552 – $17,425
Minnesota MN38$5,990−20%$3,102 – $10,643
Nebraska NE24$4,833−36%$1,428 – $24,560
Arkansas AR11$4,569−39%$2,538 – $5,636
Montana MT14$4,304−43%$1,608 – $9,299
Oregon OR26$4,199−44%$2,659 – $5,475
West Virginia WV22$4,048−46%$1,594 – $11,598
Iowa IA44$3,580−52%$3,123 – $7,530
Washington WA19$3,538−53%$2,877 – $25,962
Kansas KS25$3,495−54%$1,890 – $12,886
Kentucky KY14$3,493−54%$1,908 – $23,423
Colorado CO17$3,477−54%$2,491 – $18,390
Michigan MI42$3,209−57%$2,883 – $24,110
Oklahoma OK17$3,030−60%$3,030 – $27,296
Illinois IL29$2,803−63%$1,908 – $8,965
Vermont VT10$2,289−70%$794 – $3,699
New Hampshire NH13$2,234−70%$1,394 – $6,003
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $7,534.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care643$11,598$3,209 – $29,082
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access276$3,580$2,234 – $8,429
Ownership
For-profit126$19,229$4,564 – $35,331
Government170$4,206$2,635 – $17,550
Non-profit631$7,178$2,659 – $21,923
System affiliation
Part of a system696$9,074$3,030 – $25,187
Independent234$4,692$2,522 – $17,389

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,978
Median cash price$7,534
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

391 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,611 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,872; most fall between $1,908 and $11,340.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 391 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
$1,252$2,097$3,611$9,890$21,608

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,252 vs $21,608).

Of the 444 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 391 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

930 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,038 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted930
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here67
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,038

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 Arthroplasty Glenohumeral Joint Total Shoulder.

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, “Total shoulder replacement (CPT 23472) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23472-total-shoulder-replacement