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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Open elbow tendon release with cleanup and tendon repair

CPT 24359the billing code this page is about

Open surgery at the outer or inner elbow to release and clean out damaged tendon and bone, and then repair or reattach the tendon.

Hospitals typically charge $2,794 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 763 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,969. Most fall between $1,162 and $6,382 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
763
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 763 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
$794$1,376$2,794$4,871$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($794 vs $9,565).

How the prices are spread

$650 – $875: 50 hospitals$650$875 – $1,177: 70 hospitals$1,177 – $1,584: 91 hospitals$1,177$1,584 – $2,131: 76 hospitals$2,131 – $2,867: 59 hospitals$2,131$2,867 – $3,858: 105 hospitals$3,858 – $5,191: 90 hospitals$3,858$5,191 – $6,985: 48 hospitals$6,985 – $9,398: 40 hospitals$6,985$9,398 – $12,645: 58 hospitals$9,398median $2,794price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (687 of 763 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$650$87550
$875$1,17770
$1,177$1,58491
$1,584$2,13176
$2,131$2,86759
$2,867$3,858105
$3,858$5,19190
$5,191$6,98548
$6,985$9,39840
$9,398$12,64558

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,794
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $2,794.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $876 across 10 hospitalsNH$876Washington: median $2,432 across 25 hospitalsWA$2,432Idaho: median $6,877 across 15 hospitalsID$6,877Montana: 8 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 $2,438 across 31 hospitalsMN$2,438Illinois: median $1,630 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,630Wisconsin: median $3,495 across 31 hospitalsWI$3,495Michigan: median $1,122 across 38 hospitalsMI$1,122New York: median $3,840 across 53 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $9,734 across 16 hospitalsMA$9,734Oregon: median $1,240 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,240Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,630 across 33 hospitalsIA$1,630Indiana: median $1,475 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,475Ohio: median $3,025 across 24 hospitalsOH$3,025Pennsylvania: median $3,045 across 26 hospitalsPA$3,045New Jersey: median $3,986 across 32 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 4 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 $1,913 across 51 hospitalsCA$1,913Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,718 across 23 hospitalsCO$2,718Nebraska: median $1,872 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,872Missouri: median $1,374 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,374Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,816 across 21 hospitalsWV$1,816Virginia: median $2,228 across 13 hospitalsVA$2,228Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,411 across 10 hospitalsAZ$2,411New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,083 across 11 hospitalsKS$1,083Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,714 across 14 hospitalsTN$3,714North Carolina: median $3,494 across 12 hospitalsNC$3,494South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,396 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,396Louisiana: median $4,490 across 11 hospitalsLA$4,490Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $1,238 across 12 hospitalsAL$1,238Georgia: median $13,955 across 12 hospitalsGA$13,955Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,427 across 34 hospitalsTX$4,427Florida: median $4,177 across 15 hospitalsFL$4,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,794. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA12$13,955+399%$3,265 – $16,385
Massachusetts MA16$9,734+248%$5,582 – $10,040
Idaho ID15$6,877+146%$1,636 – $6,877
Louisiana LA11$4,490+61%$2,420 – $8,414
Texas TX34$4,427+58%$3,127 – $6,382
Florida FL15$4,177+49%$2,803 – $7,432
New Jersey NJ32$3,986+43%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY53$3,840+37%$1,114 – $4,595
Tennessee TN14$3,714+33%$616 – $5,957
Wisconsin WI31$3,495+25%$2,342 – $3,495
North Carolina NC12$3,494+25%$2,027 – $6,848
Pennsylvania PA26$3,045+9%$434 – $5,486
Ohio OH24$3,025+8%$1,618 – $11,760
Colorado CO23$2,718−3%$1,439 – $7,546
Minnesota MN31$2,438−13%$1,375 – $3,641
Washington WA25$2,432−13%$1,240 – $3,180
Arizona AZ10$2,411−14%$1,037 – $8,086
Virginia VA13$2,228−20%$446 – $10,167
California CA51$1,913−32%$1,472 – $9,565
Nebraska NE17$1,872−33%$986 – $4,501
West Virginia WV21$1,816−35%$695 – $3,908
Iowa IA33$1,630−42%$1,323 – $2,106
Illinois IL23$1,630−42%$714 – $4,871
Indiana IN18$1,475−47%$714 – $5,596
Oklahoma OK15$1,396−50%$1,396 – $6,460
Missouri MO18$1,374−51%$979 – $8,817
Oregon OR11$1,240−56%$1,240 – $1,742
Alabama AL12$1,238−56%$1,089 – $12,764
Michigan MI38$1,122−60%$794 – $4,499
Kansas KS11$1,083−61%$423 – $3,053
New Hampshire NH10$876−69%$566 – $1,537
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,794.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care561$3,546$1,248 – $7,546
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access196$1,706$979 – $3,495
Ownership
For-profit96$4,792$1,913 – $10,167
Government137$1,910$1,170 – $4,177
Non-profit529$2,747$1,122 – $5,814
System affiliation
Part of a system582$3,306$1,226 – $6,877
Independent181$1,991$1,120 – $4,720

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,592
Median cash price$2,794
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

357 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,913 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,350; most fall between $1,106 and $4,472.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 357 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
$726$1,240$1,913$4,177$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($726 vs $9,565).

Of the 397 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 357 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

763 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 844 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted763
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code844

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 Tdn Rpr.

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 elbow tendon release with cleanup and tendon repair (CPT 24359) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24359-open-elbow-tendon-release-with-cleanup-and-tendon-repair