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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Setting a break just above the elbow without repositioning

CPT 24530the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical treatment of a break in the lower end of the upper arm bone just above or across the elbow, immobilized without moving the bone ends.

Hospitals typically charge $487 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,562 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $516. Most fall between $278 and $847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,562
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 1,562 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
$200$291$487$771$1,191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($200 vs $1,191).

How the prices are spread

$132 – $169: 32 hospitals$132$169 – $215: 65 hospitals$215 – $275: 138 hospitals$215$275 – $351: 189 hospitals$351 – $448: 202 hospitals$351$448 – $572: 188 hospitals$572 – $731: 233 hospitals$572$731 – $933: 176 hospitals$933 – $1,191: 108 hospitals$933$1,191 – $1,520: 82 hospitals$1,191median $487price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,413 of 1,562 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$132$16932
$169$21565
$215$275138
$275$351189
$351$448202
$448$572188
$572$731233
$731$933176
$933$1,191108
$1,191$1,52082

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$487
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.93×

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 $487.

Alaska: median $821 across 12 hospitalsAK$821Maine: median $459 across 15 hospitalsME$459Vermont: median $526 across 11 hospitalsVT$526New Hampshire: median $329 across 13 hospitalsNH$329Washington: median $524 across 42 hospitalsWA$524Idaho: median $670 across 15 hospitalsID$670Montana: median $399 across 16 hospitalsMT$399North Dakota: median $470 across 12 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $636 across 57 hospitalsMN$636Illinois: median $518 across 54 hospitalsIL$518Wisconsin: median $679 across 59 hospitalsWI$679Michigan: median $370 across 55 hospitalsMI$370New York: median $545 across 72 hospitalsNY$545Massachusetts: median $847 across 34 hospitalsMA$847Oregon: median $626 across 39 hospitalsOR$626Nevada: median $641 across 11 hospitalsNV$641Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $514 across 19 hospitalsSD$514Iowa: median $533 across 53 hospitalsIA$533Indiana: median $406 across 35 hospitalsIN$406Ohio: median $444 across 59 hospitalsOH$444Pennsylvania: median $517 across 65 hospitalsPA$517New Jersey: median $977 across 33 hospitalsNJ$977Connecticut: median $433 across 11 hospitalsCT$433Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $732 across 108 hospitalsCA$732Utah: median $441 across 27 hospitalsUT$441Colorado: median $743 across 25 hospitalsCO$743Nebraska: median $407 across 41 hospitalsNE$407Missouri: median $339 across 25 hospitalsMO$339Kentucky: median $298 across 19 hospitalsKY$298West Virginia: median $392 across 27 hospitalsWV$392Virginia: median $198 across 36 hospitalsVA$198Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $456 across 13 hospitalsAZ$456New Mexico: median $518 across 14 hospitalsNM$518Kansas: median $497 across 32 hospitalsKS$497Arkansas: median $393 across 11 hospitalsAR$393Tennessee: median $63 across 19 hospitalsTN$63North Carolina: median $284 across 25 hospitalsNC$284South Carolina: median $357 across 27 hospitalsSC$357Oklahoma: median $477 across 28 hospitalsOK$477Louisiana: median $219 across 26 hospitalsLA$219Mississippi: median $222 across 18 hospitalsMS$222Alabama: median $530 across 16 hospitalsAL$530Georgia: median $627 across 29 hospitalsGA$627Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $439 across 122 hospitalsTX$439Florida: median $735 across 54 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $487. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ33$977+101%$266 – $5,110
Massachusetts MA34$847+74%$574 – $1,950
Alaska AK12$821+69%$443 – $1,857
Colorado CO25$743+53%$352 – $1,520
Florida FL54$735+51%$505 – $1,249
California CA108$732+50%$420 – $935
Wisconsin WI59$679+39%$375 – $1,258
Idaho ID15$670+38%$322 – $670
Nevada NV11$641+32%$270 – $835
Minnesota MN57$636+31%$236 – $979
Georgia GA29$627+29%$256 – $806
Oregon OR39$626+29%$280 – $736
New York NY72$545+12%$284 – $786
Iowa IA53$533+9%$288 – $908
Alabama AL16$530+9%$343 – $1,059
Vermont VT11$526+8%$290 – $922
Washington WA42$524+8%$416 – $796
New Mexico NM14$518+6%$340 – $1,855
Illinois IL54$518+6%$270 – $1,106
Pennsylvania PA65$517+6%$265 – $805
South Dakota SD19$514+6%$336 – $788
Kansas KS32$497+2%$300 – $1,365
Oklahoma OK28$477−2%$228 – $489
North Dakota ND12$470−3%$246 – $697
Maine ME15$459−6%$243 – $536
Arizona AZ13$456−6%$412 – $456
Ohio OH59$444−9%$360 – $717
Utah UT27$441−9%$363 – $466
Texas TX122$439−10%$258 – $684
Connecticut CT11$433−11%$264 – $768
Nebraska NE41$407−16%$273 – $798
Indiana IN35$406−16%$216 – $747
Montana MT16$399−18%$286 – $804
Arkansas AR11$393−19%$230 – $563
West Virginia WV27$392−19%$268 – $574
Michigan MI55$370−24%$288 – $599
South Carolina SC27$357−27%$305 – $599
Missouri MO25$339−30%$182 – $618
New Hampshire NH13$329−32%$233 – $561
Kentucky KY19$298−39%$244 – $560
North Carolina NC25$284−42%$153 – $369
Mississippi MS18$222−54%$127 – $335
Louisiana LA26$219−55%$138 – $342
Virginia VA36$198−59%$63 – $482
Tennessee TN19$63−87%$63 – $380
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $487.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,087$478$266 – $822
Children’s46$800$374 – $1,108
Critical access428$500$290 – $842
Ownership
For-profit133$593$280 – $1,187
Government293$481$284 – $834
Non-profit1,135$485$273 – $826
System affiliation
Part of a system1,249$482$277 – $833
Independent313$514$279 – $936

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$783
Median cash price$487
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

1,136 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $533 and the average of the middle 60% is $544; most fall between $284 and $871.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,136 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
$216$336$533$789$1,249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($216 vs $1,249).

Of the 1,233 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,136 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,562 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,693 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,562
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,693

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 Cltx Sprcndylr/Transcndylr Humeral Fx W/WO Manj.

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 break just above the elbow without repositioning (CPT 24530) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24530-setting-a-break-just-above-the-elbow-without-repositioning