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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Forearm compartment release with removal of damaged tissue

CPT 25023the billing code this page is about

Surgery that cuts open the tight tissue covering forearm muscles to relieve pressure and also trims away dead or damaged muscle or nerve tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $3,591 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 378 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,383. Most fall between $1,762 and $5,124 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
378
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 378 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
$1,336$1,961$3,591$5,110$6,949

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,336 vs $6,949).

How the prices are spread

$919 – $1,127: 11 hospitals$919$1,127 – $1,382: 11 hospitals$1,382 – $1,695: 30 hospitals$1,382$1,695 – $2,078: 35 hospitals$2,078 – $2,548: 35 hospitals$2,078$2,548 – $3,124: 32 hospitals$3,124 – $3,831: 39 hospitals$3,124$3,831 – $4,697: 65 hospitals$4,697 – $5,759: 40 hospitals$4,697$5,759 – $7,061: 47 hospitals$5,759median $3,591price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (345 of 378 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$919$1,12711
$1,127$1,38211
$1,382$1,69530
$1,695$2,07835
$2,078$2,54835
$2,548$3,12432
$3,124$3,83139
$3,831$4,69765
$4,697$5,75940
$5,759$7,06147

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,591
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $3,591.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $6,183 across 12 hospitalsMN$6,183Illinois: median $1,796 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,796Wisconsin: median $4,424 across 27 hospitalsWI$4,424Michigan: median $1,961 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,961New York: median $3,840 across 24 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $3,636 across 14 hospitalsOR$3,636Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,942 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,942Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,553 across 13 hospitalsOH$3,553Pennsylvania: median $981 across 18 hospitalsPA$981New Jersey: median $3,986 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,124 across 34 hospitalsCA$5,124Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,129 across 14 hospitalsOK$2,129Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,957 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,957Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,591. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN12$6,183+72%$4,707 – $6,183
California CA34$5,124+43%$3,035 – $5,124
Wisconsin WI27$4,424+23%$4,063 – $7,061
New Jersey NJ23$3,986+11%$3,591 – $5,419
Texas TX21$3,957+10%$3,687 – $3,957
New York NY24$3,840+7%$2,137 – $4,084
Oregon OR14$3,636+1%$2,400 – $4,369
Ohio OH13$3,553−1%$1,109 – $3,596
Iowa IA17$2,942−18%$2,942 – $3,026
Oklahoma OK14$2,129−41%$2,129 – $6,615
Michigan MI28$1,961−45%$1,622 – $4,499
Illinois IL15$1,796−50%$1,413 – $2,432
Pennsylvania PA18$981−73%$800 – $5,486
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,591.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care295$3,591$1,782 – $5,124
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access75$3,636$1,622 – $6,183
Ownership
For-profit34$3,232$1,413 – $6,361
Government48$2,460$1,730 – $3,840
Non-profit296$3,710$1,876 – $5,184
System affiliation
Part of a system305$3,819$1,876 – $5,270
Independent73$2,432$1,559 – $3,959

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,038
Median cash price$3,591
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

222 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,945 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,296; most fall between $1,622 and $5,184.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 222 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
$1,367$1,776$2,945$5,124$7,061

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,367 vs $7,061).

Of the 245 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 222 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 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

378 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 421 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted378
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code421

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 Dcmprn Fasct F/Arm&/Wrst Flxr/Xtnsr W/Dbrdmt.

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, “Forearm compartment release with removal of damaged tissue (CPT 25023) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25023-forearm-compartment-release-with-removal-of-damaged-tissue