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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Release of an extensor tendon sheath at the wrist

CPT 25000the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting of the tight tunnel covering a thumb-side extensor tendon at the wrist to relieve painful tendon irritation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,829 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,032 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,071. Most fall between $730 and $4,595 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,032
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 1,032 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
$555$854$1,829$4,035$6,864

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($555 vs $6,864).

How the prices are spread

$387 – $530: 43 hospitals$387$530 – $726: 99 hospitals$726 – $995: 126 hospitals$726$995 – $1,363: 102 hospitals$1,363 – $1,867: 116 hospitals$1,363$1,867 – $2,557: 130 hospitals$2,557 – $3,502: 66 hospitals$2,557$3,502 – $4,798: 125 hospitals$4,798 – $6,572: 54 hospitals$4,798$6,572 – $9,002: 69 hospitals$6,572median $1,829price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (930 of 1,032 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$387$53043
$530$72699
$726$995126
$995$1,363102
$1,363$1,867116
$1,867$2,557130
$2,557$3,50266
$3,502$4,798125
$4,798$6,57254
$6,572$9,00269

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,829
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $1,829.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $870 across 10 hospitalsVT$870New Hampshire: median $486 across 10 hospitalsNH$486Washington: median $1,564 across 36 hospitalsWA$1,564Idaho: median $2,510 across 19 hospitalsID$2,510Montana: median $756 across 13 hospitalsMT$756North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,401 across 40 hospitalsMN$1,401Illinois: median $1,604 across 37 hospitalsIL$1,604Wisconsin: median $1,841 across 41 hospitalsWI$1,841Michigan: median $1,111 across 42 hospitalsMI$1,111New York: median $1,894 across 62 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,322 across 12 hospitalsMA$2,322Oregon: median $905 across 34 hospitalsOR$905Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,434 across 10 hospitalsSD$4,434Iowa: median $833 across 45 hospitalsIA$833Indiana: median $1,310 across 23 hospitalsIN$1,310Ohio: median $4,785 across 40 hospitalsOH$4,785Pennsylvania: median $1,544 across 32 hospitalsPA$1,544New Jersey: median $2,136 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,707 across 81 hospitalsCA$1,707Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,566 across 21 hospitalsCO$1,566Nebraska: median $1,341 across 21 hospitalsNE$1,341Missouri: median $2,210 across 36 hospitalsMO$2,210Kentucky: median $536 across 12 hospitalsKY$536West Virginia: median $1,461 across 23 hospitalsWV$1,461Virginia: median $2,145 across 11 hospitalsVA$2,145Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,973 across 12 hospitalsAZ$1,973New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $914 across 24 hospitalsKS$914Arkansas: median $1,270 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,270Tennessee: median $3,266 across 17 hospitalsTN$3,266North Carolina: median $2,004 across 15 hospitalsNC$2,004South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $726 across 16 hospitalsOK$726Louisiana: median $2,226 across 16 hospitalsLA$2,226Mississippi: median $2,262 across 10 hospitalsMS$2,262Alabama: median $1,836 across 15 hospitalsAL$1,836Georgia: median $6,653 across 13 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,751 across 48 hospitalsTX$2,751Florida: median $2,282 across 24 hospitalsFL$2,282
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,829. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA13$6,653+264%$3,450 – $8,722
Ohio OH40$4,785+162%$827 – $6,764
South Dakota SD10$4,434+142%$1,221 – $4,927
Tennessee TN17$3,266+79%$349 – $4,653
Texas TX48$2,751+50%$1,553 – $5,387
Idaho ID19$2,510+37%$647 – $3,644
Massachusetts MA12$2,322+27%$1,266 – $6,876
Florida FL24$2,282+25%$1,166 – $4,544
Mississippi MS10$2,262+24%$650 – $5,910
Louisiana LA16$2,226+22%$1,444 – $2,554
Missouri MO36$2,210+21%$730 – $7,384
Virginia VA11$2,145+17%$983 – $6,781
New Jersey NJ32$2,136+17%$1,773 – $5,339
North Carolina NC15$2,004+10%$1,297 – $4,740
Arizona AZ12$1,973+8%$593 – $6,718
New York NY62$1,894+4%$711 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI41$1,841+1%$1,433 – $2,207
Alabama AL15$1,8360%$948 – $7,263
California CA81$1,707−7%$728 – $7,616
Illinois IL37$1,604−12%$649 – $4,072
Colorado CO21$1,566−14%$730 – $4,181
Washington WA36$1,564−14%$810 – $3,396
Pennsylvania PA32$1,544−16%$228 – $3,274
West Virginia WV23$1,461−20%$695 – $3,757
Minnesota MN40$1,401−23%$895 – $2,120
Nebraska NE21$1,341−27%$824 – $2,400
Indiana IN23$1,310−28%$384 – $9,660
Arkansas AR10$1,270−31%$600 – $2,449
Michigan MI42$1,111−39%$656 – $2,211
Kansas KS24$914−50%$629 – $2,445
Oregon OR34$905−51%$571 – $4,202
Vermont VT10$870−52%$580 – $1,461
Iowa IA45$833−54%$782 – $1,370
Montana MT13$756−59%$511 – $1,703
Oklahoma OK16$726−60%$726 – $4,423
Kentucky KY12$536−71%$384 – $2,565
New Hampshire NH10$486−73%$224 – $856
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,829.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care723$2,049$833 – $4,860
Children’s22$6,139$948 – $7,882
Critical access287$1,032$640 – $2,317
Ownership
For-profit123$3,467$1,232 – $7,566
Government198$1,289$738 – $2,917
Non-profit711$1,835$728 – $4,595
System affiliation
Part of a system786$1,894$827 – $4,785
Independent246$1,228$653 – $2,849

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,774
Median cash price$1,829
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

538 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,491 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,640; most fall between $649 and $3,598.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 538 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
$461$713$1,491$3,016$4,785

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($461 vs $4,785).

Of the 591 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 538 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,032 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,142 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,032
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,142

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Incis Tendon Sheath,Radial Styloid.

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, “Release of an extensor tendon sheath at the wrist (CPT 25000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25000-release-of-an-extensor-tendon-sheath-at-the-wrist