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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of the fluid sac at the point of the elbow

CPT 24105the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove the inflamed cushioning sac (bursa) over the bony tip of the elbow.

Hospitals typically charge $1,823 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 956 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,174. Most fall between $683 and $5,339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
956
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 956 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
$512$756$1,823$4,263$7,686

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($512 vs $7,686).

How the prices are spread

$406 – $567: 77 hospitals$406$567 – $794: 133 hospitals$794 – $1,110: 114 hospitals$794$1,110 – $1,553: 80 hospitals$1,553 – $2,172: 90 hospitals$1,553$2,172 – $3,039: 56 hospitals$3,039 – $4,251: 113 hospitals$3,039$4,251 – $5,946: 81 hospitals$5,946 – $8,317: 75 hospitals$5,946$8,317 – $11,634: 45 hospitals$8,317median $1,823price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (864 of 956 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$406$56777
$567$794133
$794$1,110114
$1,110$1,55380
$1,553$2,17290
$2,172$3,03956
$3,039$4,251113
$4,251$5,94681
$5,946$8,31775
$8,317$11,63445

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,823
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.55×

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 $1,823.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $461 across 11 hospitalsNH$461Washington: median $1,298 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,298Idaho: median $1,648 across 17 hospitalsID$1,648Montana: median $756 across 12 hospitalsMT$756North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,388 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,388Illinois: median $1,056 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,056Wisconsin: median $1,915 across 38 hospitalsWI$1,915Michigan: median $816 across 43 hospitalsMI$816New York: median $2,113 across 49 hospitalsNY$2,113Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $946 across 25 hospitalsOR$946Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $868 across 46 hospitalsIA$868Indiana: median $638 across 21 hospitalsIN$638Ohio: median $3,246 across 31 hospitalsOH$3,246Pennsylvania: median $3,761 across 31 hospitalsPA$3,761New Jersey: median $4,078 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,078Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,472 across 58 hospitalsCA$1,472Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $881 across 18 hospitalsCO$881Nebraska: median $1,255 across 24 hospitalsNE$1,255Missouri: median $2,454 across 23 hospitalsMO$2,454Kentucky: median $644 across 16 hospitalsKY$644West Virginia: median $3,761 across 26 hospitalsWV$3,761Virginia: median $3,135 across 13 hospitalsVA$3,135Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,015 across 15 hospitalsAZ$4,015New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $618 across 28 hospitalsKS$618Arkansas: median $1,283 across 14 hospitalsAR$1,283Tennessee: median $2,121 across 22 hospitalsTN$2,121North Carolina: median $3,649 across 14 hospitalsNC$3,649South Carolina: median $4,636 across 10 hospitalsSC$4,636Oklahoma: median $756 across 19 hospitalsOK$756Louisiana: median $3,114 across 14 hospitalsLA$3,114Mississippi: median $2,696 across 23 hospitalsMS$2,696Alabama: median $3,170 across 13 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $6,653 across 15 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,869 across 52 hospitalsTX$2,869Florida: median $4,177 across 18 hospitalsFL$4,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,823. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA15$6,653+265%$1,647 – $6,653
South Carolina SC10$4,636+154%$2,996 – $9,470
Florida FL18$4,177+129%$2,329 – $4,639
New Jersey NJ35$4,078+124%$3,591 – $5,419
Arizona AZ15$4,015+120%$565 – $7,200
West Virginia WV26$3,761+106%$391 – $4,179
Pennsylvania PA31$3,761+106%$2,044 – $6,027
North Carolina NC14$3,649+100%$677 – $9,805
Ohio OH31$3,246+78%$753 – $14,039
Alabama AL13$3,170+74%$987 – $10,191
Virginia VA13$3,135+72%$1,857 – $5,454
Louisiana LA14$3,114+71%$2,276 – $5,299
Texas TX52$2,869+57%$1,925 – $6,382
Mississippi MS23$2,696+48%$1,303 – $4,568
Missouri MO23$2,454+35%$485 – $3,461
Tennessee TN22$2,121+16%$573 – $5,202
New York NY49$2,113+16%$539 – $4,084
Wisconsin WI38$1,915+5%$1,434 – $2,636
Idaho ID17$1,648−10%$739 – $6,877
California CA58$1,472−19%$1,181 – $6,507
Minnesota MN37$1,388−24%$732 – $1,823
Washington WA18$1,298−29%$704 – $4,371
Arkansas AR14$1,283−30%$645 – $2,909
Nebraska NE24$1,255−31%$855 – $4,624
Illinois IL36$1,056−42%$627 – $2,258
Oregon OR25$946−48%$683 – $1,342
Colorado CO18$881−52%$662 – $8,676
Iowa IA46$868−52%$666 – $1,060
Michigan MI43$816−55%$555 – $4,499
Montana MT12$756−59%$534 – $1,705
Oklahoma OK19$756−59%$756 – $6,615
Kentucky KY16$644−65%$406 – $8,645
Indiana IN21$638−65%$406 – $1,574
Kansas KS28$618−66%$465 – $1,400
New Hampshire NH11$461−75%$238 – $1,072
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $1,823.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care639$3,032$791 – $6,507
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access307$960$604 – $2,210
Ownership
For-profit125$4,636$1,313 – $9,045
Government201$1,012$635 – $3,840
Non-profit630$1,823$683 – $4,633
System affiliation
Part of a system709$1,925$749 – $5,850
Independent247$1,147$609 – $3,553

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,114
Median cash price$1,823
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

463 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,342 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,577; most fall between $610 and $4,177.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 463 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
$466$683$1,342$3,135$6,507

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($466 vs $6,507).

Of the 528 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 463 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

956 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 1,063 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted956
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,063

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 Excision Olecranon Bursa.

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 the fluid sac at the point of the elbow (CPT 24105) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24105-removal-of-the-fluid-sac-at-the-point-of-the-elbow