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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Open tendon release at the elbow with cleanup of tissue

CPT 24358the billing code this page is about

Open surgery at the outer or inner elbow to release the tendon and remove damaged soft tissue or bone, without reattaching the tendon.

Hospitals typically charge $1,938 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 671 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,419. Most fall between $937 and $5,741 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
671
States
49
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 671 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
$603$1,007$1,938$4,330$8,646

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($603 vs $8,646).

How the prices are spread

$444 – $607: 36 hospitals$444$607 – $829: 34 hospitals$829 – $1,133: 96 hospitals$829$1,133 – $1,548: 89 hospitals$1,548 – $2,115: 56 hospitals$1,548$2,115 – $2,890: 69 hospitals$2,890 – $3,948: 55 hospitals$2,890$3,948 – $5,394: 62 hospitals$5,394 – $7,369: 43 hospitals$5,394$7,369 – $10,068: 65 hospitals$7,369median $1,938price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (605 of 671 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$444$60736
$607$82934
$829$1,13396
$1,133$1,54889
$1,548$2,11556
$2,115$2,89069
$2,890$3,94855
$3,948$5,39462
$5,394$7,36943
$7,369$10,06865

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,938
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

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 $1,938.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $842 across 10 hospitalsVT$842New Hampshire: median $669 across 10 hospitalsNH$669Washington: median $1,229 across 14 hospitalsWA$1,229Idaho: median $3,950 across 13 hospitalsID$3,950Montana: 7 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 $2,193 across 23 hospitalsMN$2,193Illinois: median $1,623 across 22 hospitalsIL$1,623Wisconsin: median $2,653 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,653Michigan: median $945 across 32 hospitalsMI$945New York: median $1,906 across 40 hospitalsNY$1,906Massachusetts: median $9,734 across 16 hospitalsMA$9,734Oregon: median $998 across 12 hospitalsOR$998Nevada: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,295 across 32 hospitalsIA$1,295Indiana: median $605 across 13 hospitalsIN$605Ohio: median $1,732 across 22 hospitalsOH$1,732Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 30 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,639 across 53 hospitalsCA$2,639Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,341 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,341Missouri: median $1,896 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,896Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,401 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,401Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $759 across 12 hospitalsKS$759Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $912 across 10 hospitalsTN$912North Carolina: median $2,811 across 12 hospitalsNC$2,811South Carolina: median $6,361 across 10 hospitalsSC$6,361Oklahoma: median $1,114 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,114Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,170 across 11 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $16,385 across 10 hospitalsGA$16,385Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,299 across 27 hospitalsTX$4,299Florida: median $4,177 across 16 hospitalsFL$4,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,938. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$16,385+745%$5,328 – $16,385
Massachusetts MA16$9,734+402%$4,961 – $9,734
South Carolina SC10$6,361+228%$4,279 – $6,814
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+123%$3,591 – $5,339
Texas TX27$4,299+122%$1,748 – $4,299
Florida FL16$4,177+116%$3,257 – $7,740
Idaho ID13$3,950+104%$1,080 – $8,372
Alabama AL11$3,170+64%$988 – $8,749
Pennsylvania PA30$3,139+62%$349 – $6,987
North Carolina NC12$2,811+45%$1,189 – $7,572
Wisconsin WI30$2,653+37%$1,860 – $2,675
California CA53$2,639+36%$1,472 – $8,646
Minnesota MN23$2,193+13%$1,104 – $2,880
New York NY40$1,906−2%$849 – $3,840
Missouri MO20$1,896−2%$770 – $9,372
Ohio OH22$1,732−11%$995 – $9,621
Illinois IL22$1,623−16%$959 – $3,427
West Virginia WV17$1,401−28%$561 – $7,059
Nebraska NE15$1,341−31%$413 – $2,334
Iowa IA32$1,295−33%$1,046 – $1,575
Washington WA14$1,229−37%$1,041 – $3,624
Oklahoma OK14$1,114−43%$1,114 – $6,615
Oregon OR12$998−49%$853 – $1,208
Michigan MI32$945−51%$887 – $2,675
Tennessee TN10$912−53%$490 – $5,353
Vermont VT10$842−57%$664 – $1,433
Kansas KS12$759−61%$380 – $1,119
New Hampshire NH10$669−65%$419 – $929
Indiana IN13$605−69%$566 – $1,561
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,938.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care476$2,728$998 – $6,718
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access186$1,324$780 – $2,675
Ownership
For-profit75$4,299$1,283 – $8,974
Government124$1,526$963 – $4,177
Non-profit471$1,857$921 – $4,881
System affiliation
Part of a system503$2,639$945 – $6,361
Independent168$1,483$898 – $3,950

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,433
Median cash price$1,938
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

343 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,518 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,044; most fall between $872 and $4,299.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 343 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
$581$988$1,518$4,177$8,646

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($581 vs $8,646).

Of the 378 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 343 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 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

671 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 737 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted671
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code737

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 Tnot Elbow Lateral/Medial Debride Open.

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 at the elbow with cleanup of tissue (CPT 24358) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24358-open-tendon-release-at-the-elbow-with-cleanup-of-tissue