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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Open tendon release between shoulder and elbow, each tendon

CPT 24310the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to cut a tendon in the arm between the shoulder and elbow to relieve tightness; the charge applies to each tendon cut.

Hospitals typically charge $1,594 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 366 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,072. Most fall between $856 and $4,077 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
366
States
45
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 366 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
$683$937$1,594$3,821$5,855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($683 vs $5,855).

How the prices are spread

$555 – $728: 22 hospitals$555$728 – $955: 53 hospitals$955 – $1,253: 46 hospitals$955$1,253 – $1,643: 45 hospitals$1,643 – $2,156: 14 hospitals$1,643$2,156 – $2,828: 47 hospitals$2,828 – $3,709: 26 hospitals$2,828$3,709 – $4,866: 44 hospitals$4,866 – $6,382: 18 hospitals$4,866$6,382 – $8,372: 17 hospitals$6,382median $1,594price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (332 of 366 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$555$72822
$728$95553
$955$1,25346
$1,253$1,64345
$1,643$2,15614
$2,156$2,82847
$2,828$3,70926
$3,709$4,86644
$4,866$6,38218
$6,382$8,37217

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,594
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.48×

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 $1,594.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,159 across 10 hospitalsWA$1,159Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $2,340 across 20 hospitalsMN$2,340Illinois: median $904 across 15 hospitalsIL$904Wisconsin: median $2,384 across 11 hospitalsWI$2,384Michigan: median $1,024 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,024New York: median $3,840 across 24 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $883 across 12 hospitalsOR$883Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,162 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,162Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,591 across 15 hospitalsOH$1,591Pennsylvania: median $6,114 across 15 hospitalsPA$6,114New Jersey: median $4,077 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,077Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,565 across 37 hospitalsCA$2,565Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $788 across 12 hospitalsOK$788Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 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 $2,778 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,778Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,594. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA15$6,114+284%$3,804 – $9,440
New Jersey NJ29$4,077+156%$3,591 – $5,419
New York NY24$3,840+141%$1,130 – $3,884
Texas TX22$2,778+74%$1,583 – $2,778
California CA37$2,565+61%$1,472 – $2,565
Wisconsin WI11$2,384+50%$1,298 – $2,384
Minnesota MN20$2,340+47%$1,054 – $3,073
Ohio OH15$1,5910%$791 – $2,149
Iowa IA18$1,162−27%$1,162 – $1,342
Washington WA10$1,159−27%$883 – $1,762
Michigan MI24$1,024−36%$746 – $1,024
Illinois IL15$904−43%$586 – $1,896
Oregon OR12$883−45%$883 – $1,594
Oklahoma OK12$788−51%$788 – $788
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $1,594.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care285$1,684$866 – $4,084
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access69$1,594$794 – $3,073
Ownership
For-profit38$2,778$746 – $5,317
Government56$1,212$865 – $3,840
Non-profit272$1,684$883 – $4,077
System affiliation
Part of a system292$2,119$883 – $4,084
Independent74$1,232$791 – $3,286

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,992
Median cash price$1,594
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

205 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,316 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,581; most fall between $788 and $2,778.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 205 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
$586$817$1,316$2,565$6,114

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $6,114).

Of the 234 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 205 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

366 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 408 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted366
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code408

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 Tenotomy Open Elbow to Shoulder Each 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, “Open tendon release between shoulder and elbow, each tendon (CPT 24310) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24310-open-tendon-release-between-shoulder-and-elbow-each-tendon