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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Setting a break just above the elbow with repositioning

CPT 24535the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical treatment of a break in the lower end of the upper arm bone near the elbow, with the bone ends moved back into alignment, with or without traction.

Hospitals typically charge $1,434 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,638 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,533. Most fall between $730 and $2,735 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,638
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 1,638 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
$489$864$1,434$2,375$4,181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($489 vs $4,181).

How the prices are spread

$357 – $470: 63 hospitals$357$470 – $619: 92 hospitals$619 – $814: 140 hospitals$619$814 – $1,072: 202 hospitals$1,072 – $1,411: 212 hospitals$1,072$1,411 – $1,857: 239 hospitals$1,857 – $2,444: 234 hospitals$1,857$2,444 – $3,216: 120 hospitals$3,216 – $4,233: 94 hospitals$3,216$4,233 – $5,571: 84 hospitals$4,233median $1,434price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,480 of 1,638 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$357$47063
$470$61992
$619$814140
$814$1,072202
$1,072$1,411212
$1,411$1,857239
$1,857$2,444234
$2,444$3,216120
$3,216$4,23394
$4,233$5,57184

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,434
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.87×

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 $1,434.

Alaska: median $2,025 across 13 hospitalsAK$2,025Maine: median $951 across 15 hospitalsME$951Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $693 across 13 hospitalsNH$693Washington: median $1,740 across 46 hospitalsWA$1,740Idaho: median $2,246 across 14 hospitalsID$2,246Montana: median $838 across 17 hospitalsMT$838North Dakota: median $1,633 across 12 hospitalsND$1,633Minnesota: median $1,650 across 54 hospitalsMN$1,650Illinois: median $1,283 across 56 hospitalsIL$1,283Wisconsin: median $1,846 across 52 hospitalsWI$1,846Michigan: median $1,433 across 55 hospitalsMI$1,433New York: median $1,894 across 76 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $1,856 across 36 hospitalsMA$1,856Oregon: median $1,764 across 38 hospitalsOR$1,764Nevada: median $1,749 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,749Wyoming: median $1,368 across 13 hospitalsWY$1,368South Dakota: median $1,809 across 11 hospitalsSD$1,809Iowa: median $1,031 across 35 hospitalsIA$1,031Indiana: median $757 across 35 hospitalsIN$757Ohio: median $1,816 across 52 hospitalsOH$1,816Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 79 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $2,232 across 33 hospitalsNJ$2,232Connecticut: median $1,185 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,185Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,412 across 114 hospitalsCA$1,412Utah: median $891 across 32 hospitalsUT$891Colorado: median $1,608 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,608Nebraska: median $1,172 across 28 hospitalsNE$1,172Missouri: median $1,414 across 30 hospitalsMO$1,414Kentucky: median $699 across 21 hospitalsKY$699West Virginia: median $1,544 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,544Virginia: median $1,006 across 41 hospitalsVA$1,006Maryland: 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 $730 across 17 hospitalsAZ$730New Mexico: median $1,820 across 19 hospitalsNM$1,820Kansas: median $663 across 20 hospitalsKS$663Arkansas: median $991 across 14 hospitalsAR$991Tennessee: median $483 across 20 hospitalsTN$483North Carolina: median $729 across 33 hospitalsNC$729South Carolina: median $1,134 across 37 hospitalsSC$1,134Oklahoma: median $1,119 across 32 hospitalsOK$1,119Louisiana: median $652 across 29 hospitalsLA$652Mississippi: median $782 across 30 hospitalsMS$782Alabama: median $1,324 across 14 hospitalsAL$1,324Georgia: median $1,806 across 41 hospitalsGA$1,806Hawaii: median $3,756 across 13 hospitalsHI$3,756Texas: median $1,607 across 125 hospitalsTX$1,607Florida: median $2,401 across 72 hospitalsFL$2,401
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,434. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI13$3,756+162%$1,455 – $3,997
Florida FL72$2,401+67%$900 – $5,571
Idaho ID14$2,246+57%$659 – $4,436
New Jersey NJ33$2,232+56%$1,771 – $5,698
Alaska AK13$2,025+41%$957 – $3,883
Pennsylvania PA79$1,900+32%$827 – $2,706
New York NY76$1,894+32%$1,052 – $4,283
Massachusetts MA36$1,856+29%$950 – $4,969
Wisconsin WI52$1,846+29%$1,112 – $2,926
New Mexico NM19$1,820+27%$690 – $2,171
Ohio OH52$1,816+27%$1,138 – $4,785
South Dakota SD11$1,809+26%$968 – $3,941
Georgia GA41$1,806+26%$478 – $3,152
Oregon OR38$1,764+23%$1,181 – $3,101
Nevada NV11$1,749+22%$1,056 – $2,254
Washington WA46$1,740+21%$974 – $2,962
Minnesota MN54$1,650+15%$1,025 – $2,316
North Dakota ND12$1,633+14%$800 – $2,527
Colorado CO34$1,608+12%$1,275 – $4,181
Texas TX125$1,607+12%$868 – $2,413
West Virginia WV25$1,544+8%$629 – $1,849
Michigan MI55$1,4330%$666 – $2,211
Missouri MO30$1,414−1%$955 – $1,897
California CA114$1,412−2%$1,009 – $3,801
Wyoming WY13$1,368−5%$632 – $1,697
Alabama AL14$1,324−8%$768 – $1,728
Illinois IL56$1,283−11%$656 – $2,029
Connecticut CT11$1,185−17%$959 – $2,636
Nebraska NE28$1,172−18%$1,021 – $2,287
South Carolina SC37$1,134−21%$1,126 – $2,735
Oklahoma OK32$1,119−22%$633 – $1,787
Iowa IA35$1,031−28%$730 – $1,614
Virginia VA41$1,006−30%$607 – $2,339
Arkansas AR14$991−31%$349 – $2,918
Maine ME15$951−34%$409 – $1,355
Utah UT32$891−38%$831 – $1,925
Montana MT17$838−42%$374 – $1,755
Mississippi MS30$782−45%$514 – $910
Indiana IN35$757−47%$535 – $1,591
Arizona AZ17$730−49%$730 – $1,784
North Carolina NC33$729−49%$284 – $1,831
Kentucky KY21$699−51%$348 – $1,301
New Hampshire NH13$693−52%$377 – $1,320
Kansas KS20$663−54%$347 – $1,444
Louisiana LA29$652−55%$379 – $1,463
Tennessee TN20$483−66%$212 – $798
Vermont VT9not 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 $1,434.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,221$1,515$754 – $2,849
Children’s43$2,086$1,079 – $6,765
Critical access372$1,252$659 – $2,183
Ownership
For-profit163$1,749$730 – $3,321
Government272$1,252$630 – $2,231
Non-profit1,201$1,434$773 – $2,747
System affiliation
Part of a system1,334$1,493$745 – $2,835
Independent304$1,275$650 – $2,359

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,276
Median cash price$1,434
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

1,221 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,414 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,530; most fall between $750 and $2,800.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,221 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
$496$868$1,414$2,413$4,283

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($496 vs $4,283).

Of the 1,313 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,221 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 54 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,638 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,765 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,638
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded60
Hospitals that filed this code1,765

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 HC 24535 Cl Tx Sc/Tx Hum Shft Fx W Man.

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 with repositioning (CPT 24535) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24535-setting-a-break-just-above-the-elbow-with-repositioning