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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Pinning a broken elbow knob through the skin

CPT 24566the billing code this page is about

Fixation of a break of the bony bump on the inner or outer side of the elbow using pins or wires placed through the skin after the fragment is repositioned.

Hospitals typically charge $1,960 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 305 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,252. Most fall between $1,170 and $4,350 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
305
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 305 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
$770$1,252$1,960$3,627$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($770 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$658 – $844: 24 hospitals$658$844 – $1,083: 17 hospitals$1,083 – $1,390: 38 hospitals$1,083$1,390 – $1,784: 36 hospitals$1,784 – $2,289: 39 hospitals$1,784$2,289 – $2,938: 25 hospitals$2,938 – $3,770: 44 hospitals$2,938$3,770 – $4,838: 12 hospitals$4,838 – $6,209: 24 hospitals$4,838$6,209 – $7,969: 23 hospitals$6,209median $1,960price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (282 of 305 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$658$84424
$844$1,08317
$1,083$1,39038
$1,390$1,78436
$1,784$2,28939
$2,289$2,93825
$2,938$3,77044
$3,770$4,83812
$4,838$6,20924
$6,209$7,96923

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,960
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $1,960.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,358 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,358Wisconsin: median $3,627 across 21 hospitalsWI$3,627Michigan: median $1,554 across 17 hospitalsMI$1,554New York: median $1,894 across 24 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,406 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,406Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,763 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,763Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $473 across 17 hospitalsPA$473New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,969 across 37 hospitalsCA$7,969Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,170 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,170Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,080 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,080Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,960. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA37$7,969+307%$4,914 – $7,969
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+93%$1,771 – $5,419
Wisconsin WI21$3,627+85%$2,593 – $3,627
Texas TX21$3,080+57%$2,387 – $3,080
Oregon OR11$2,406+23%$1,352 – $2,406
New York NY24$1,894−3%$1,054 – $2,007
Iowa IA15$1,763−10%$1,763 – $1,763
Michigan MI17$1,554−21%$924 – $2,211
Illinois IL12$1,358−31%$770 – $2,601
Oklahoma OK13$1,170−40%$1,170 – $1,170
Pennsylvania PA17$473−76%$172 – $2,706
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,960.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care247$1,894$1,170 – $4,914
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$2,406$1,264 – $3,627
Ownership
For-profit33$2,597$770 – $4,436
Government40$1,494$1,164 – $1,928
Non-profit232$2,211$1,170 – $4,881
System affiliation
Part of a system247$2,097$1,170 – $4,881
Independent58$1,603$1,068 – $3,138

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,559
Median cash price$1,960
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

190 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,763 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,170; most fall between $913 and $4,088.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 190 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
$738$1,170$1,763$3,627$7,969

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($738 vs $7,969).

Of the 202 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 190 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

305 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 332 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted305
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code332

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Prq Skel Fixj Humrl Epcndylr Fx Medial/Lat 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, “Pinning a broken elbow knob through the skin (CPT 24566) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24566-pinning-a-broken-elbow-knob-through-the-skin