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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Open wrist joint exploration

CPT 25040the billing code this page is about

Surgery that opens a wrist joint to look inside and explore it, including removing tissue for testing if needed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,892 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 433 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,283. Most fall between $927 and $4,477 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
433
States
43
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 433 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
$620$1,038$1,892$4,015$7,612

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($620 vs $7,612).

How the prices are spread

$473 – $639: 35 hospitals$473$639 – $863: 20 hospitals$863 – $1,165: 62 hospitals$863$1,165 – $1,574: 55 hospitals$1,574 – $2,127: 40 hospitals$1,574$2,127 – $2,873: 24 hospitals$2,873 – $3,880: 65 hospitals$2,873$3,880 – $5,242: 44 hospitals$5,242 – $7,081: 24 hospitals$5,242$7,081 – $9,565: 34 hospitals$7,081median $1,892price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (403 of 433 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$473$63935
$639$86320
$863$1,16562
$1,165$1,57455
$1,574$2,12740
$2,127$2,87324
$2,873$3,88065
$3,880$5,24244
$5,242$7,08124
$7,081$9,56534

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,892
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $1,892.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,375 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,375Idaho: median $3,910 across 10 hospitalsID$3,910Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,404 across 16 hospitalsMN$3,404Illinois: median $1,033 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,033Wisconsin: median $2,958 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,958Michigan: median $1,163 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,163New York: median $3,840 across 30 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,210 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,210Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,383 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,383Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,950 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,950Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $3,821 across 30 hospitalsNJ$3,821Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,565 across 30 hospitalsCA$9,565Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 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 $593 across 11 hospitalsWV$593Virginia: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $927 across 14 hospitalsOK$927Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,477 across 23 hospitalsTX$4,477Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,892. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA30$9,565+406%$1,306 – $9,565
Texas TX23$4,477+137%$1,892 – $4,477
Idaho ID10$3,910+107%$1,810 – $8,372
New York NY30$3,840+103%$914 – $3,884
New Jersey NJ30$3,821+102%$3,546 – $5,419
Minnesota MN16$3,404+80%$2,250 – $3,465
Wisconsin WI30$2,958+56%$2,796 – $4,652
Pennsylvania PA19$2,382+26%$351 – $5,486
Ohio OH13$1,950+3%$1,038 – $2,089
Iowa IA17$1,383−27%$1,383 – $1,425
Washington WA11$1,375−27%$942 – $2,006
Oregon OR16$1,210−36%$1,048 – $1,870
Michigan MI29$1,163−39%$1,088 – $2,958
Illinois IL14$1,033−45%$620 – $3,147
Oklahoma OK14$927−51%$927 – $6,615
West Virginia WV11$593−69%$590 – $1,536
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,892.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care318$2,059$940 – $5,038
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access107$1,556$769 – $3,216
Ownership
For-profit39$2,794$927 – $6,361
Government76$1,458$881 – $3,840
Non-profit318$1,954$927 – $4,499
System affiliation
Part of a system331$2,471$927 – $4,627
Independent102$1,375$849 – $3,553

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,284
Median cash price$1,892
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

230 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,536 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,033; most fall between $914 and $4,477.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 230 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
$620$927$1,536$4,477$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($620 vs $8,372).

Of the 255 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 230 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

433 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted433
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code479

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrt Rdcrpl/Midcarpl Jt W/Expl Drg/Rmvl FB.

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 wrist joint exploration (CPT 25040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25040-open-wrist-joint-exploration