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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Setting a broken upper arm bone without repositioning

CPT 24500the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical treatment of a break in the shaft of the upper arm bone, held with a cast, splint or brace, without moving the bone ends back into place.

Hospitals typically charge $466 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,683 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $488. Most fall between $262 and $810 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,683
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,683 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
$199$284$466$721$1,126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($199 vs $1,126).

How the prices are spread

$139 – $178: 49 hospitals$139$178 – $228: 100 hospitals$228 – $292: 217 hospitals$228$292 – $375: 146 hospitals$375 – $480: 291 hospitals$375$480 – $616: 227 hospitals$616 – $790: 217 hospitals$616$790 – $1,013: 150 hospitals$1,013 – $1,299: 86 hospitals$1,013$1,299 – $1,666: 35 hospitals$1,299median $466price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,518 of 1,683 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$139$17849
$178$228100
$228$292217
$292$375146
$375$480291
$480$616227
$616$790217
$790$1,013150
$1,013$1,29986
$1,299$1,66635

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$466
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.85×

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 $466.

Alaska: median $478 across 12 hospitalsAK$478Maine: median $301 across 14 hospitalsME$301Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $265 across 15 hospitalsNH$265Washington: median $558 across 48 hospitalsWA$558Idaho: median $670 across 17 hospitalsID$670Montana: median $379 across 17 hospitalsMT$379North Dakota: median $470 across 17 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $626 across 52 hospitalsMN$626Illinois: median $442 across 52 hospitalsIL$442Wisconsin: median $944 across 61 hospitalsWI$944Michigan: median $414 across 60 hospitalsMI$414New York: median $519 across 76 hospitalsNY$519Massachusetts: median $1,096 across 40 hospitalsMA$1,096Oregon: median $514 across 40 hospitalsOR$514Nevada: median $395 across 10 hospitalsNV$395Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $628 across 17 hospitalsSD$628Iowa: median $450 across 52 hospitalsIA$450Indiana: median $378 across 39 hospitalsIN$378Ohio: median $440 across 72 hospitalsOH$440Pennsylvania: median $490 across 73 hospitalsPA$490New Jersey: median $977 across 44 hospitalsNJ$977Connecticut: median $463 across 13 hospitalsCT$463Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $610 across 104 hospitalsCA$610Utah: median $416 across 29 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $582 across 28 hospitalsCO$582Nebraska: median $638 across 47 hospitalsNE$638Missouri: median $404 across 27 hospitalsMO$404Kentucky: median $320 across 21 hospitalsKY$320West Virginia: median $378 across 27 hospitalsWV$378Virginia: median $405 across 41 hospitalsVA$405Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $432 across 17 hospitalsAZ$432New Mexico: median $490 across 15 hospitalsNM$490Kansas: median $538 across 42 hospitalsKS$538Arkansas: median $232 across 13 hospitalsAR$232Tennessee: median $322 across 15 hospitalsTN$322North Carolina: median $220 across 30 hospitalsNC$220South Carolina: median $346 across 27 hospitalsSC$346Oklahoma: median $330 across 34 hospitalsOK$330Louisiana: median $204 across 32 hospitalsLA$204Mississippi: median $251 across 31 hospitalsMS$251Alabama: median $377 across 15 hospitalsAL$377Georgia: median $412 across 39 hospitalsGA$412Hawaii: median $645 across 10 hospitalsHI$645Texas: median $414 across 116 hospitalsTX$414Florida: median $625 across 52 hospitalsFL$625
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $466. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA40$1,096+135%$543 – $1,807
New Jersey NJ44$977+110%$266 – $4,627
Wisconsin WI61$944+103%$359 – $966
Idaho ID17$670+44%$345 – $686
Hawaii HI10$645+38%$573 – $820
Nebraska NE47$638+37%$336 – $828
South Dakota SD17$628+35%$319 – $635
Minnesota MN52$626+34%$238 – $987
Florida FL52$625+34%$394 – $1,071
California CA104$610+31%$410 – $1,126
Colorado CO28$582+25%$344 – $1,520
Washington WA48$558+20%$468 – $744
Kansas KS42$538+15%$344 – $1,242
New York NY76$519+11%$284 – $853
Oregon OR40$514+10%$252 – $697
Pennsylvania PA73$490+5%$252 – $759
New Mexico NM15$490+5%$358 – $1,620
Alaska AK12$478+2%$314 – $1,299
North Dakota ND17$470+1%$246 – $674
Connecticut CT13$463−1%$381 – $1,246
Iowa IA52$450−3%$280 – $795
Illinois IL52$442−5%$274 – $823
Ohio OH72$440−6%$353 – $717
Arizona AZ17$432−7%$389 – $608
Utah UT29$416−11%$302 – $451
Michigan MI60$414−11%$272 – $548
Texas TX116$414−11%$234 – $593
Georgia GA39$412−12%$192 – $806
Virginia VA41$405−13%$321 – $488
Missouri MO27$404−13%$193 – $739
Nevada NV10$395−15%$268 – $608
Montana MT17$379−19%$242 – $792
West Virginia WV27$378−19%$249 – $526
Indiana IN39$378−19%$181 – $747
Alabama AL15$377−19%$164 – $480
South Carolina SC27$346−26%$305 – $567
Oklahoma OK34$330−29%$197 – $622
Tennessee TN15$322−31%$72 – $528
Kentucky KY21$320−31%$247 – $382
Maine ME14$301−35%$234 – $765
New Hampshire NH15$265−43%$150 – $627
Mississippi MS31$251−46%$108 – $442
Arkansas AR13$232−50%$169 – $496
North Carolina NC30$220−53%$211 – $278
Louisiana LA32$204−56%$123 – $338
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $466.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,166$447$254 – $759
Children’s46$755$289 – $1,098
Critical access468$488$289 – $826
Ownership
For-profit141$466$260 – $944
Government321$458$236 – $806
Non-profit1,218$466$266 – $803
System affiliation
Part of a system1,329$466$262 – $806
Independent354$466$257 – $847

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$756
Median cash price$466
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,229 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $482 and the average of the middle 60% is $513; most fall between $278 and $822.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,229 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
$211$320$482$735$1,126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($211 vs $1,126).

Of the 1,331 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,229 gave a usable cash price; 41 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,683 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,828 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,683
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,828

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 fracture and dislocation procedure family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Clsd Tx Humeral Shaft Fracture W/O Manipulation.

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, “Setting a broken upper arm bone without repositioning (CPT 24500) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24500-setting-a-broken-upper-arm-bone-without-repositioning