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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of deep tumor in upper arm or elbow, under 5 cm

CPT 24076the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue growth lying beneath the fascia or within muscle of the upper arm or elbow, measuring less than 5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $1,831 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 741 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,212. Most fall between $936 and $4,426 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
741
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 741 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
$645$1,029$1,831$3,994$6,277

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($645 vs $6,277).

How the prices are spread

$501 – $654: 52 hospitals$501$654 – $855: 49 hospitals$855 – $1,117: 82 hospitals$855$1,117 – $1,460: 97 hospitals$1,460 – $1,908: 68 hospitals$1,460$1,908 – $2,494: 53 hospitals$2,494 – $3,260: 64 hospitals$2,494$3,260 – $4,260: 86 hospitals$4,260 – $5,568: 60 hospitals$4,260$5,568 – $7,277: 64 hospitals$5,568median $1,831price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (675 of 741 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$501$65452
$654$85549
$855$1,11782
$1,117$1,46097
$1,460$1,90868
$1,908$2,49453
$2,494$3,26064
$3,260$4,26086
$4,260$5,56860
$5,568$7,27764

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$1,831
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $1,831.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,085 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,085New Hampshire: median $776 across 11 hospitalsNH$776Washington: median $1,997 across 21 hospitalsWA$1,997Idaho: median $2,828 across 14 hospitalsID$2,828Montana: 9 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 $2,140 across 30 hospitalsMN$2,140Illinois: median $1,334 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,334Wisconsin: median $2,376 across 37 hospitalsWI$2,376Michigan: median $952 across 37 hospitalsMI$952New York: median $3,387 across 59 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $4,169 across 12 hospitalsMA$4,169Oregon: median $1,454 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,454Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,334 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,334Indiana: median $685 across 13 hospitalsIN$685Ohio: median $1,338 across 18 hospitalsOH$1,338Pennsylvania: median $2,094 across 28 hospitalsPA$2,094New Jersey: median $3,758 across 32 hospitalsNJ$3,758Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,849 across 52 hospitalsCA$1,849Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,336 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,336Nebraska: median $1,319 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,319Missouri: median $1,496 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,496Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $940 across 19 hospitalsWV$940Virginia: median $2,519 across 21 hospitalsVA$2,519Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $905 across 16 hospitalsKS$905Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,150 across 16 hospitalsOK$1,150Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,796 across 11 hospitalsAL$2,796Georgia: median $5,810 across 11 hospitalsGA$5,810Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,244 across 36 hospitalsTX$4,244Florida: median $6,277 across 17 hospitalsFL$6,277
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,831. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL17$6,277+243%$2,119 – $6,386
Georgia GA11$5,810+217%$5,810 – $6,977
Texas TX36$4,244+132%$1,763 – $4,253
Massachusetts MA12$4,169+128%$3,028 – $6,148
New Jersey NJ32$3,758+105%$3,169 – $5,339
New York NY59$3,387+85%$952 – $4,595
Idaho ID14$2,828+54%$1,104 – $7,765
Alabama AL11$2,796+53%$1,531 – $8,243
Virginia VA21$2,519+38%$1,322 – $4,358
Wisconsin WI37$2,376+30%$1,775 – $3,693
Minnesota MN30$2,140+17%$1,323 – $2,718
Pennsylvania PA28$2,094+14%$150 – $4,839
Washington WA21$1,997+9%$1,063 – $6,203
California CA52$1,849+1%$1,284 – $7,022
Missouri MO18$1,496−18%$792 – $2,609
Oregon OR17$1,454−21%$1,021 – $1,613
Ohio OH18$1,338−27%$711 – $3,940
Colorado CO12$1,336−27%$949 – $4,719
Iowa IA27$1,334−27%$992 – $1,334
Illinois IL25$1,334−27%$962 – $3,111
Nebraska NE13$1,319−28%$1,097 – $2,580
Oklahoma OK16$1,150−37%$1,150 – $3,903
Vermont VT10$1,085−41%$703 – $1,400
Michigan MI37$952−48%$645 – $3,134
West Virginia WV19$940−49%$581 – $3,668
Kansas KS16$905−51%$698 – $1,636
New Hampshire NH11$776−58%$467 – $1,179
Indiana IN13$685−63%$501 – $1,350
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $1,831.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care536$2,601$991 – $4,881
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access194$1,319$776 – $2,376
Ownership
For-profit68$2,628$1,088 – $6,046
Government136$1,531$949 – $3,387
Non-profit536$1,846$935 – $4,426
System affiliation
Part of a system562$2,119$952 – $4,595
Independent179$1,518$851 – $3,224

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,447
Median cash price$1,831
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

408 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,443 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,870; most fall between $819 and $4,253.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 408 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
$573$952$1,443$3,789$6,148

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($573 vs $6,148).

Of the 437 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 408 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

741 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 813 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted741
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code813

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Tumor Soft Tiss Upr Arm/Elbow Subfasc <5cm.

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, “Removal of deep tumor in upper arm or elbow, under 5 cm (CPT 24076) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24076-removal-of-deep-tumor-in-upper-arm-or-elbow-under-5-cm