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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Open repair of a broken elbow joint surface

CPT 24579the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to repair a break through the inner or outer joint-forming knob at the end of the upper arm bone, including internal fixation when used.

Hospitals typically charge $3,052 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 537 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,169. Most fall between $1,454 and $14,930 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
537
States
46
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 537 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
$912$1,680$3,052$13,042$17,170

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($912 vs $17,170).

How the prices are spread

$721 – $1,016: 43 hospitals$721$1,016 – $1,433: 37 hospitals$1,433 – $2,020: 78 hospitals$1,433$2,020 – $2,847: 73 hospitals$2,847 – $4,014: 40 hospitals$2,847$4,014 – $5,659: 28 hospitals$5,659 – $7,978: 31 hospitals$5,659$7,978 – $11,247: 32 hospitals$11,247 – $15,855: 63 hospitals$11,247$15,855 – $22,351: 61 hospitals$15,855median $3,052price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (486 of 537 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$721$1,01643
$1,016$1,43337
$1,433$2,02078
$2,020$2,84773
$2,847$4,01440
$4,014$5,65928
$5,659$7,97831
$7,978$11,24732
$11,247$15,85563
$15,855$22,35161

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$13,117
Median cash price$3,052
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.23×

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 $3,052.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,193 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,193New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,204 across 13 hospitalsWA$2,204Idaho: median $7,933 across 11 hospitalsID$7,933Montana: 7 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 $2,533 across 15 hospitalsMN$2,533Illinois: median $1,520 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,520Wisconsin: median $4,143 across 28 hospitalsWI$4,143Michigan: median $1,775 across 34 hospitalsMI$1,775New York: median $7,351 across 38 hospitalsNY$7,351Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,977 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,977Nevada: 3 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 $2,048 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,048Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,974 across 17 hospitalsOH$2,974Pennsylvania: median $9,117 across 24 hospitalsPA$9,117New Jersey: median $14,242 across 32 hospitalsNJ$14,242Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $17,002 across 35 hospitalsCA$17,002Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $918 across 13 hospitalsWV$918Virginia: 8 hospitals 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,754 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,754Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $7,354 across 11 hospitalsAL$7,354Georgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $10,629 across 28 hospitalsTX$10,629Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,052. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$17,002+457%$1,405 – $17,002
New Jersey NJ32$14,242+367%$5,110 – $17,170
Texas TX28$10,629+248%$2,789 – $13,215
Pennsylvania PA24$9,117+199%$546 – $19,980
Idaho ID11$7,933+160%$1,687 – $15,889
Alabama AL11$7,354+141%$2,356 – $13,340
New York NY38$7,351+141%$1,835 – $15,226
Wisconsin WI28$4,143+36%$3,052 – $7,061
Ohio OH17$2,974−3%$1,477 – $15,473
Minnesota MN15$2,533−17%$1,400 – $4,884
Washington WA13$2,204−28%$1,698 – $13,691
Iowa IA19$2,048−33%$2,048 – $2,235
Oregon OR17$1,977−35%$1,557 – $2,774
Michigan MI34$1,775−42%$1,599 – $3,052
Oklahoma OK14$1,754−43%$1,754 – $19,497
Illinois IL16$1,520−50%$912 – $2,812
Vermont VT10$1,193−61%$428 – $1,593
West Virginia WV13$918−70%$882 – $4,450
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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 $3,052.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care391$4,627$1,557 – $15,239
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access129$2,032$1,118 – $4,143
Ownership
For-profit58$8,439$1,477 – $19,343
Government100$2,235$1,446 – $14,892
Non-profit379$3,052$1,417 – $14,254
System affiliation
Part of a system403$3,396$1,499 – $15,226
Independent134$2,431$1,431 – $12,086

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,468
Median cash price$3,052
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

262 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,336 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,549; most fall between $1,279 and $10,629.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 262 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
$912$1,464$2,336$10,629$17,002

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($912 vs $17,002).

Of the 300 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 262 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

537 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 600 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted537
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code600

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 Open Treatment Humeral Condylar Fracture.

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 repair of a broken elbow joint surface (CPT 24579) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24579-open-repair-of-a-broken-elbow-joint-surface