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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Treatment of upper arm break near shoulder, no setting

CPT 23600the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical care of a fracture at the top of the upper arm bone where the bone is not manipulated back into position; usually includes a sling or immobilizer.

Hospitals typically charge $471 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,751 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $482. Most fall between $259 and $793 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,751
States
50
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 1,751 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
$195$284$471$717$1,096

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($195 vs $1,096).

How the prices are spread

$143 – $181: 58 hospitals$143$181 – $228: 103 hospitals$228 – $287: 210 hospitals$228$287 – $362: 162 hospitals$362 – $457: 220 hospitals$362$457 – $576: 268 hospitals$576 – $726: 221 hospitals$576$726 – $915: 157 hospitals$915 – $1,153: 119 hospitals$915$1,153 – $1,454: 59 hospitals$1,153median $471price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,577 of 1,751 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$143$18158
$181$228103
$228$287210
$287$362162
$362$457220
$457$576268
$576$726221
$726$915157
$915$1,153119
$1,153$1,45459

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$471
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.87×

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 $471.

Alaska: median $611 across 13 hospitalsAK$611Maine: median $371 across 15 hospitalsME$371Vermont: median $463 across 11 hospitalsVT$463New Hampshire: median $232 across 15 hospitalsNH$232Washington: median $641 across 53 hospitalsWA$641Idaho: median $551 across 17 hospitalsID$551Montana: median $383 across 20 hospitalsMT$383North Dakota: median $470 across 15 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $464 across 67 hospitalsMN$464Illinois: median $561 across 61 hospitalsIL$561Wisconsin: median $636 across 67 hospitalsWI$636Michigan: median $394 across 54 hospitalsMI$394New York: median $435 across 80 hospitalsNY$435Massachusetts: median $747 across 36 hospitalsMA$747Oregon: median $535 across 40 hospitalsOR$535Nevada: median $606 across 13 hospitalsNV$606Wyoming: median $572 across 10 hospitalsWY$572South Dakota: median $482 across 30 hospitalsSD$482Iowa: median $506 across 57 hospitalsIA$506Indiana: median $342 across 38 hospitalsIN$342Ohio: median $521 across 63 hospitalsOH$521Pennsylvania: median $448 across 77 hospitalsPA$448New Jersey: median $977 across 36 hospitalsNJ$977Connecticut: median $558 across 13 hospitalsCT$558Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $590 across 114 hospitalsCA$590Utah: median $416 across 30 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $494 across 35 hospitalsCO$494Nebraska: median $611 across 50 hospitalsNE$611Missouri: median $492 across 35 hospitalsMO$492Kentucky: median $320 across 21 hospitalsKY$320West Virginia: median $334 across 27 hospitalsWV$334Virginia: median $394 across 26 hospitalsVA$394Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $399 across 16 hospitalsAZ$399New Mexico: median $417 across 18 hospitalsNM$417Kansas: median $511 across 46 hospitalsKS$511Arkansas: median $393 across 14 hospitalsAR$393Tennessee: median $276 across 20 hospitalsTN$276North Carolina: median $314 across 30 hospitalsNC$314South Carolina: median $539 across 28 hospitalsSC$539Oklahoma: median $310 across 37 hospitalsOK$310Louisiana: median $219 across 30 hospitalsLA$219Mississippi: median $126 across 27 hospitalsMS$126Alabama: median $294 across 16 hospitalsAL$294Georgia: median $627 across 36 hospitalsGA$627Hawaii: median $577 across 10 hospitalsHI$577Texas: median $412 across 129 hospitalsTX$412Florida: median $578 across 45 hospitalsFL$578
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $471. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ36$977+108%$283 – $4,881
Massachusetts MA36$747+59%$419 – $1,586
Washington WA53$641+36%$452 – $800
Wisconsin WI67$636+35%$255 – $1,053
Georgia GA36$627+33%$248 – $901
Nebraska NE50$611+30%$350 – $734
Alaska AK13$611+30%$336 – $1,299
Nevada NV13$606+29%$343 – $1,236
California CA114$590+25%$345 – $1,126
Florida FL45$578+23%$422 – $896
Hawaii HI10$577+23%$573 – $798
Wyoming WY10$572+22%$198 – $850
Illinois IL61$561+19%$265 – $955
Connecticut CT13$558+19%$381 – $1,539
Idaho ID17$551+17%$237 – $670
South Carolina SC28$539+15%$249 – $793
Oregon OR40$535+14%$196 – $710
Ohio OH63$521+11%$360 – $717
Kansas KS46$511+9%$323 – $1,538
Iowa IA57$506+8%$243 – $762
Colorado CO35$494+5%$258 – $932
Missouri MO35$492+5%$242 – $733
South Dakota SD30$482+3%$354 – $635
North Dakota ND15$4700%$246 – $608
Minnesota MN67$464−1%$278 – $665
Vermont VT11$463−2%$347 – $810
Pennsylvania PA77$448−5%$249 – $761
New York NY80$435−7%$255 – $920
New Mexico NM18$417−11%$271 – $597
Utah UT30$416−12%$336 – $454
Texas TX129$412−12%$246 – $741
Arizona AZ16$399−15%$354 – $399
Michigan MI54$394−16%$259 – $675
Virginia VA26$394−16%$368 – $488
Arkansas AR14$393−16%$205 – $563
Montana MT20$383−19%$272 – $878
Maine ME15$371−21%$218 – $605
Indiana IN38$342−27%$172 – $747
West Virginia WV27$334−29%$249 – $492
Kentucky KY21$320−32%$249 – $521
North Carolina NC30$314−33%$195 – $494
Oklahoma OK37$310−34%$132 – $586
Alabama AL16$294−37%$175 – $556
Tennessee TN20$276−41%$75 – $465
New Hampshire NH15$232−51%$143 – $379
Louisiana LA30$219−53%$135 – $453
Mississippi MS27$126−73%$75 – $229
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $471.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,167$455$252 – $779
Children’s43$761$399 – $1,108
Critical access540$488$270 – $769
Ownership
For-profit144$464$278 – $901
Government352$484$248 – $769
Non-profit1,254$466$262 – $787
System affiliation
Part of a system1,404$473$259 – $787
Independent347$464$260 – $821

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$747
Median cash price$471
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

1,282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $487 and the average of the middle 60% is $502; most fall between $280 and $806.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,282 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
$202$317$487$730$1,085

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($202 vs $1,085).

Of the 1,386 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,282 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,751 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,891 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,751
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here74
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,891

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 fracture and dislocation procedure family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cltx Proximal Humeral Fracture W/O Manipulation.

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, “Treatment of upper arm break near shoulder, no setting (CPT 23600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23600-treatment-of-upper-arm-break-near-shoulder-no-setting