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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Tendon release at the elbow through the skin

CPT 24357the billing code this page is about

Cutting the tendon at the outer or inner elbow through a small puncture, without an open incision, for conditions such as tennis elbow.

Hospitals typically charge $3,443 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 731 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,335. Most fall between $1,062 and $6,204 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
731
States
48
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 731 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
$702$1,317$3,443$5,353$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($702 vs $8,742).

How the prices are spread

$481 – $650: 33 hospitals$481$650 – $878: 46 hospitals$878 – $1,185: 58 hospitals$878$1,185 – $1,600: 29 hospitals$1,600 – $2,161: 50 hospitals$1,600$2,161 – $2,918: 59 hospitals$2,918 – $3,940: 151 hospitals$2,918$3,940 – $5,320: 85 hospitals$5,320 – $7,184: 94 hospitals$5,320$7,184 – $9,701: 58 hospitals$7,184median $3,443price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (663 of 731 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$481$65033
$650$87846
$878$1,18558
$1,185$1,60029
$1,600$2,16150
$2,161$2,91859
$2,918$3,940151
$3,940$5,32085
$5,320$7,18494
$7,184$9,70158

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,443
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $3,443.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,249 across 22 hospitalsWA$4,249Idaho: median $3,348 across 12 hospitalsID$3,348Montana: 3 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 $3,443 across 27 hospitalsMN$3,443Illinois: median $3,236 across 30 hospitalsIL$3,236Wisconsin: median $3,582 across 56 hospitalsWI$3,582Michigan: median $3,667 across 30 hospitalsMI$3,667New York: median $3,840 across 39 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $5,828 across 12 hospitalsMA$5,828Oregon: median $774 across 11 hospitalsOR$774Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,037 across 32 hospitalsIA$1,037Indiana: median $2,575 across 24 hospitalsIN$2,575Ohio: median $3,752 across 59 hospitalsOH$3,752Pennsylvania: median $3,920 across 43 hospitalsPA$3,920New Jersey: median $4,233 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,233Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,742 across 40 hospitalsCA$8,742Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,887 across 20 hospitalsCO$2,887Nebraska: median $2,369 across 19 hospitalsNE$2,369Missouri: median $3,814 across 10 hospitalsMO$3,814Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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 $2,340 across 10 hospitalsKS$2,340Arkansas: 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: median $2,616 across 11 hospitalsNC$2,616South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $881 across 16 hospitalsOK$881Louisiana: median $2,523 across 14 hospitalsLA$2,523Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,621 across 10 hospitalsGA$2,621Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,854 across 29 hospitalsTX$3,854Florida: median $4,599 across 18 hospitalsFL$4,599
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,443. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA40$8,742+154%$1,924 – $8,742
Massachusetts MA12$5,828+69%$3,569 – $8,868
Florida FL18$4,599+34%$4,177 – $14,033
Washington WA22$4,249+23%$1,099 – $6,425
New Jersey NJ34$4,233+23%$3,591 – $5,339
Pennsylvania PA43$3,920+14%$318 – $6,362
Texas TX29$3,854+12%$1,482 – $5,934
New York NY39$3,840+12%$1,162 – $4,265
Missouri MO10$3,814+11%$3,139 – $3,814
Ohio OH59$3,752+9%$1,878 – $9,701
Michigan MI30$3,667+7%$859 – $6,489
Wisconsin WI56$3,582+4%$1,668 – $3,945
Minnesota MN27$3,4430%$1,737 – $6,716
Idaho ID12$3,348−3%$818 – $8,372
Illinois IL30$3,236−6%$743 – $6,630
Colorado CO20$2,887−16%$1,023 – $8,003
Georgia GA10$2,621−24%$1,499 – $2,621
North Carolina NC11$2,616−24%$2,181 – $3,350
Indiana IN24$2,575−25%$481 – $3,939
Louisiana LA14$2,523−27%$1,371 – $4,792
Nebraska NE19$2,369−31%$1,134 – $3,752
Kansas KS10$2,340−32%$390 – $13,309
Iowa IA32$1,037−70%$841 – $3,143
Oklahoma OK16$881−74%$881 – $6,373
Oregon OR11$774−78%$774 – $7,516
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $3,443.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care580$3,761$1,265 – $6,489
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access137$1,668$769 – $3,985
Ownership
For-profit70$3,752$1,127 – $8,158
Government102$1,712$735 – $3,890
Non-profit555$3,667$1,168 – $6,361
System affiliation
Part of a system611$3,761$1,305 – $6,373
Independent120$1,449$732 – $3,665

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,056
Median cash price$3,443
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

483 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,443 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,494; most fall between $1,062 and $6,489.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 483 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
$697$1,457$3,443$5,934$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($697 vs $8,742).

Of the 514 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 483 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 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

731 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 788 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted731
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code788

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tenotomy Elbow Lateral/Medial Percutaneous.

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 release at the elbow through the skin (CPT 24357) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24357-tendon-release-at-the-elbow-through-the-skin