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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of radius and ulna

Open surgery for a dislocated elbow

CPT 24615the billing code this page is about

Surgery that opens the elbow to put a recently or long-standing dislocated joint back into position.

Hospitals typically charge $3,116 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 395 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,330. Most fall between $1,224 and $9,978 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
395
States
45
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 395 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
$794$1,374$3,116$8,413$14,482

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($794 vs $14,482).

How the prices are spread

$668 – $919: 34 hospitals$668$919 – $1,266: 31 hospitals$1,266 – $1,743: 37 hospitals$1,266$1,743 – $2,401: 56 hospitals$2,401 – $3,306: 27 hospitals$2,401$3,306 – $4,553: 11 hospitals$4,553 – $6,271: 23 hospitals$4,553$6,271 – $8,636: 72 hospitals$8,636 – $11,893: 20 hospitals$8,636$11,893 – $16,378: 47 hospitals$11,893median $3,116price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (358 of 395 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$668$91934
$919$1,26631
$1,266$1,74337
$1,743$2,40156
$2,401$3,30627
$3,306$4,55311
$4,553$6,27123
$6,271$8,63672
$8,636$11,89320
$11,893$16,37847

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,116
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.42×

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 $3,116.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,757 across 17 hospitalsIL$1,757Wisconsin: median $3,116 across 14 hospitalsWI$3,116Michigan: median $1,774 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,774New York: median $8,454 across 27 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $1,757 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,757Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,556 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,556Pennsylvania: median $5,050 across 20 hospitalsPA$5,050New Jersey: median $7,907 across 29 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,482 across 31 hospitalsCA$14,482Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,202 across 13 hospitalsWV$1,202Virginia: 5 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 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 $1,181 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,181Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,293 across 38 hospitalsTX$7,293Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,116. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA31$14,482+365%$2,308 – $14,482
New York NY27$8,454+171%$1,652 – $8,454
New Jersey NJ29$7,907+154%$5,110 – $14,242
Texas TX38$7,293+134%$6,630 – $7,293
Pennsylvania PA20$5,050+62%$446 – $11,093
Wisconsin WI14$3,1160%$3,116 – $6,180
Ohio OH12$2,556−18%$1,456 – $2,661
Michigan MI24$1,774−43%$1,774 – $4,553
Iowa IA16$1,757−44%$1,757 – $1,898
Illinois IL17$1,757−44%$794 – $11,161
West Virginia WV13$1,202−61%$756 – $1,964
Oklahoma OK13$1,181−62%$1,181 – $14,565
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $3,116.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care316$5,050$1,281 – $11,093
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access69$1,774$794 – $6,180
Ownership
For-profit49$7,000$1,244 – $11,775
Government60$2,066$1,218 – $8,454
Non-profit286$3,116$1,244 – $9,978
System affiliation
Part of a system320$3,986$1,224 – $11,161
Independent75$2,100$1,218 – $7,000

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,304
Median cash price$3,116
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

207 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,118 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,632; most fall between $1,181 and $11,093.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 207 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
$794$1,278$2,118$7,293$14,482

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($794 vs $14,482).

Of the 229 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 207 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

395 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 444 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted395
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code444

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of radius and ulna family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Open Rx Elbow Dislocation.

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 surgery for a dislocated elbow (CPT 24615) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24615-open-surgery-for-a-dislocated-elbow