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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Repair of torn biceps or triceps tendon at the elbow

CPT 24342the billing code this page is about

Surgery to reattach a ruptured biceps or triceps tendon near the elbow, with or without a tendon graft.

Hospitals typically charge $4,076 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 884 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,869. Most fall between $1,473 and $11,724 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
884
States
50
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 884 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
$937$1,733$4,076$9,329$17,030

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($937 vs $17,030).

How the prices are spread

$720 – $1,021: 52 hospitals$720$1,021 – $1,447: 79 hospitals$1,447 – $2,050: 110 hospitals$1,447$2,050 – $2,904: 81 hospitals$2,904 – $4,116: 80 hospitals$2,904$4,116 – $5,832: 73 hospitals$5,832 – $8,263: 94 hospitals$5,832$8,263 – $11,709: 94 hospitals$11,709 – $16,592: 84 hospitals$11,709$16,592 – $23,511: 49 hospitals$16,592median $4,076price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (796 of 884 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$720$1,02152
$1,021$1,44779
$1,447$2,050110
$2,050$2,90481
$2,904$4,11680
$4,116$5,83273
$5,832$8,26394
$8,263$11,70994
$11,709$16,59284
$16,592$23,51149

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$4,076
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 $4,076.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,080 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,080New Hampshire: median $1,052 across 10 hospitalsNH$1,052Washington: median $2,710 across 23 hospitalsWA$2,710Idaho: median $7,885 across 18 hospitalsID$7,885Montana: median $1,428 across 12 hospitalsMT$1,428North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,887 across 32 hospitalsMN$3,887Illinois: median $1,867 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,867Wisconsin: median $4,076 across 37 hospitalsWI$4,076Michigan: median $1,967 across 42 hospitalsMI$1,967New York: median $8,454 across 58 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,867 across 26 hospitalsOR$1,867Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,912 across 34 hospitalsIA$1,912Indiana: median $2,341 across 26 hospitalsIN$2,341Ohio: median $16,065 across 37 hospitalsOH$16,065Pennsylvania: median $6,943 across 29 hospitalsPA$6,943New Jersey: median $7,807 across 33 hospitalsNJ$7,807Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,957 across 60 hospitalsCA$4,957Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $5,933 across 17 hospitalsCO$5,933Nebraska: median $2,097 across 22 hospitalsNE$2,097Missouri: median $7,232 across 23 hospitalsMO$7,232Kentucky: median $1,162 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,162West Virginia: median $3,595 across 20 hospitalsWV$3,595Virginia: median $9,925 across 16 hospitalsVA$9,925Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $8,904 across 11 hospitalsAZ$8,904New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,601 across 21 hospitalsKS$1,601Arkansas: median $2,830 across 10 hospitalsAR$2,830Tennessee: median $8,598 across 15 hospitalsTN$8,598North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $4,279 across 10 hospitalsSC$4,279Oklahoma: median $1,629 across 17 hospitalsOK$1,629Louisiana: median $10,936 across 13 hospitalsLA$10,936Mississippi: median $2,389 across 10 hospitalsMS$2,389Alabama: median $6,980 across 16 hospitalsAL$6,980Georgia: median $6,653 across 11 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,887 across 37 hospitalsTX$5,887Florida: median $13,053 across 15 hospitalsFL$13,053
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,076. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH37$16,065+294%$2,824 – $24,499
Florida FL15$13,053+220%$2,824 – $21,270
Louisiana LA13$10,936+168%$4,631 – $11,892
Virginia VA16$9,925+144%$4,118 – $20,288
Arizona AZ11$8,904+118%$1,212 – $21,650
Tennessee TN15$8,598+111%$733 – $9,250
New York NY58$8,454+107%$1,862 – $13,784
Idaho ID18$7,885+93%$1,564 – $14,116
New Jersey NJ33$7,807+92%$4,881 – $9,093
Missouri MO23$7,232+77%$1,311 – $13,804
Alabama AL16$6,980+71%$2,190 – $15,968
Pennsylvania PA29$6,943+70%$505 – $13,461
Georgia GA11$6,653+63%$6,653 – $17,100
Colorado CO17$5,933+46%$1,550 – $19,279
Texas TX37$5,887+44%$5,476 – $14,716
California CA60$4,957+22%$2,251 – $6,485
South Carolina SC10$4,279+5%$1,772 – $15,030
Wisconsin WI37$4,0760%$3,844 – $9,230
Minnesota MN32$3,887−5%$1,760 – $5,388
West Virginia WV20$3,595−12%$811 – $8,695
Arkansas AR10$2,830−31%$1,568 – $4,480
Washington WA23$2,710−33%$1,645 – $13,419
Mississippi MS10$2,389−41%$1,013 – $10,913
Indiana IN26$2,341−43%$920 – $10,164
Nebraska NE22$2,097−49%$715 – $4,583
Michigan MI42$1,967−52%$1,509 – $9,978
Iowa IA34$1,912−53%$1,600 – $2,469
Illinois IL25$1,867−54%$920 – $4,809
Oregon OR26$1,867−54%$1,390 – $2,574
Oklahoma OK17$1,629−60%$1,629 – $14,565
Kansas KS21$1,601−61%$544 – $6,836
Montana MT12$1,428−65%$867 – $3,755
Kentucky KY11$1,162−71%$920 – $13,815
Vermont VT10$1,080−74%$396 – $2,160
New Hampshire NH10$1,052−74%$684 – $2,021
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $4,076.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care634$5,933$1,784 – $13,784
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access240$1,947$1,136 – $4,815
Ownership
For-profit111$9,286$3,599 – $18,454
Government165$2,409$1,351 – $8,904
Non-profit608$4,076$1,441 – $10,526
System affiliation
Part of a system663$4,881$1,629 – $12,560
Independent221$2,627$1,374 – $8,997

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,976
Median cash price$4,076
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

393 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,396 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,176; most fall between $1,080 and $6,485.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 393 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
$775$1,334$2,396$5,887$10,545

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($775 vs $10,545).

Of the 438 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 393 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

884 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 978 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted884
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code978

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 Rinsj Rptd Biceps/Triceps Tdn Dstl W/WO Tdn Grf.

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, “Repair of torn biceps or triceps tendon at the elbow (CPT 24342) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24342-repair-of-torn-biceps-or-triceps-tendon-at-the-elbow