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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Unlisted procedure on the shoulder

CPT 23929the billing code this page is about

Used for a shoulder operation that has no specific billing code of its own; the record describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $603 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 543 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,156. Most fall between $288 and $4,330 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
543
States
49
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 543 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
$264$322$603$3,387$8,893

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 34× what the cheapest tenth charges ($264 vs $8,893).

How the prices are spread

$207 – $329: 111 hospitals$207$329 – $524: 95 hospitals$524 – $832: 70 hospitals$524$832 – $1,323: 29 hospitals$1,323 – $2,102: 57 hospitals$1,323$2,102 – $3,342: 18 hospitals$3,342 – $5,312: 46 hospitals$3,342$5,312 – $8,443: 24 hospitals$8,443 – $13,419: 26 hospitals$8,443$13,419 – $21,330: 13 hospitals$13,419median $603price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (489 of 543 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$207$329111
$329$52495
$524$83270
$832$1,32329
$1,323$2,10257
$2,102$3,34218
$3,342$5,31246
$5,312$8,44324
$8,443$13,41926
$13,419$21,33013

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$603
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $603.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $438 across 19 hospitalsWA$438Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 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 $1,510 across 29 hospitalsMN$1,510Illinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $467 across 17 hospitalsWI$467Michigan: median $7,058 across 16 hospitalsMI$7,058New York: median $308 across 31 hospitalsNY$308Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $603 across 11 hospitalsOR$603Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $514 across 18 hospitalsIN$514Ohio: median $929 across 31 hospitalsOH$929Pennsylvania: median $406 across 21 hospitalsPA$406New Jersey: median $3,986 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 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 $594 across 49 hospitalsCA$594Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $698 across 14 hospitalsWV$698Virginia: median $347 across 20 hospitalsVA$347Maryland: 2 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $441 across 20 hospitalsGA$441Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,294 across 46 hospitalsTX$1,294Florida: median $1,573 across 24 hospitalsFL$1,573
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $603. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Michigan MI16$7,058+1070%$339 – $8,893
New Jersey NJ31$3,986+561%$266 – $5,419
Florida FL24$1,573+161%$456 – $24,400
Minnesota MN29$1,510+150%$288 – $3,987
Texas TX46$1,294+115%$264 – $1,885
Ohio OH31$929+54%$281 – $21,360
West Virginia WV14$698+16%$373 – $1,829
Oregon OR11$6030%$603 – $718
California CA49$594−2%$317 – $1,068
Indiana IN18$514−15%$460 – $738
Wisconsin WI17$467−23%$394 – $1,475
Georgia GA20$441−27%$441 – $8,531
Washington WA19$438−27%$261 – $23,479
Pennsylvania PA21$406−33%$291 – $1,087
Virginia VA20$347−43%$347 – $588
New York NY31$308−49%$284 – $3,631
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $603.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care442$594$288 – $4,880
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access89$680$394 – $2,125
Ownership
For-profit64$1,573$356 – $8,892
Government77$591$284 – $2,184
Non-profit401$594$291 – $3,987
System affiliation
Part of a system451$600$291 – $4,733
Independent92$712$259 – $2,184

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,175
Median cash price$603
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

321 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $594 and the average of the middle 60% is $849; most fall between $281 and $2,850.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 321 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
$249$294$594$1,885$8,531

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 34× what the cheapest tenth charges ($249 vs $8,531).

Of the 345 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 321 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

543 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 597 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted543
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code597

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Unlisted Procedure 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, “Unlisted procedure on the shoulder (CPT 23929) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-23929-unlisted-procedure-on-the-shoulder