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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Tendon lengthening in the upper arm or elbow, each tendon

CPT 24305the billing code this page is about

Surgery to lengthen a tight tendon in the upper arm or elbow region; the charge applies to each tendon lengthened.

Hospitals typically charge $2,726 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 365 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,610. Most fall between $997 and $4,330 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
365
States
43
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 365 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
$800$1,119$2,726$3,884$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($800 vs $8,372).

How the prices are spread

$543 – $748: 15 hospitals$543$748 – $1,029: 47 hospitals$1,029 – $1,417: 38 hospitals$1,029$1,417 – $1,950: 30 hospitals$1,950 – $2,685: 36 hospitals$1,950$2,685 – $3,695: 66 hospitals$3,695 – $5,087: 54 hospitals$3,695$5,087 – $7,002: 23 hospitals$7,002 – $9,639: 8 hospitals$7,002$9,639 – $13,268: 14 hospitals$9,639median $2,726price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (331 of 365 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$543$74815
$748$1,02947
$1,029$1,41738
$1,417$1,95030
$1,950$2,68536
$2,685$3,69566
$3,695$5,08754
$5,087$7,00223
$7,002$9,6398
$9,639$13,26814

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,726
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.82×

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 $2,726.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,910 across 10 hospitalsID$3,910Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,696 across 16 hospitalsMN$3,696Illinois: median $1,058 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,058Wisconsin: median $3,222 across 22 hospitalsWI$3,222Michigan: median $1,266 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,266New York: median $3,840 across 22 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,428 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,428Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,981 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,981Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,509 across 24 hospitalsCA$2,509Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $939 across 10 hospitalsMO$939Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $962 across 13 hospitalsOK$962Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,672 across 22 hospitalsTX$3,672Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,726. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ30$4,330+59%$3,591 – $5,339
Idaho ID10$3,910+43%$3,300 – $8,372
New York NY22$3,840+41%$2,770 – $3,884
Minnesota MN16$3,696+36%$2,062 – $3,858
Texas TX22$3,672+35%$1,928 – $3,672
Wisconsin WI22$3,222+18%$2,900 – $3,222
California CA24$2,509−8%$2,509 – $2,509
Pennsylvania PA20$2,382−13%$307 – $5,038
Ohio OH12$1,981−27%$1,181 – $2,648
Iowa IA18$1,428−48%$1,428 – $1,440
Michigan MI28$1,266−54%$848 – $4,499
Illinois IL13$1,058−61%$800 – $1,428
Oklahoma OK13$962−65%$962 – $6,615
Missouri MO10$939−66%$905 – $6,072
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,726.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care287$2,509$1,001 – $4,499
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access62$2,900$939 – $3,858
Ownership
For-profit45$3,353$953 – $9,097
Government49$1,928$1,001 – $3,925
Non-profit271$2,509$999 – $4,233
System affiliation
Part of a system302$2,900$999 – $4,499
Independent63$1,748$971 – $3,925

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,942
Median cash price$2,726
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

194 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,681 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,086; most fall between $848 and $3,672.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 194 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
$655$962$1,681$3,222$5,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($655 vs $5,576).

Of the 212 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 194 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

365 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 401 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted365
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code401

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Tendon Lengthening Upper Arm/Elbow Ea Tendon.

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, “Tendon lengthening in the upper arm or elbow, each tendon (CPT 24305) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24305-tendon-lengthening-in-the-upper-arm-or-elbow-each-tendon