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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Opening the wrist joint to take a tissue sample

CPT 25100the billing code this page is about

Open surgical entry into the wrist joint to remove a sample of tissue for testing.

Hospitals typically charge $1,763 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 298 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,195. Most fall between $602 and $4,499 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
298
States
42
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 298 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
$410$662$1,763$4,116$5,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($410 vs $5,746).

How the prices are spread

$323 – $437: 19 hospitals$323$437 – $591: 27 hospitals$591 – $800: 27 hospitals$591$800 – $1,081: 39 hospitals$1,081 – $1,463: 14 hospitals$1,081$1,463 – $1,978: 16 hospitals$1,978 – $2,675: 13 hospitals$1,978$2,675 – $3,617: 33 hospitals$3,617 – $4,892: 48 hospitals$3,617$4,892 – $6,615: 36 hospitals$4,892median $1,763price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (272 of 298 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$323$43719
$437$59127
$591$80027
$800$1,08139
$1,081$1,46314
$1,463$1,97816
$1,978$2,67513
$2,675$3,61733
$3,617$4,89248
$4,892$6,61536

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,763
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.53×

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 $1,763.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $2,225 across 12 hospitalsMN$2,225Illinois: median $675 across 11 hospitalsIL$675Wisconsin: median $1,763 across 14 hospitalsWI$1,763Michigan: median $964 across 25 hospitalsMI$964New York: median $3,840 across 22 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $662 across 11 hospitalsOR$662Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $852 across 14 hospitalsIA$852Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $271 across 18 hospitalsPA$271New Jersey: median $4,330 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,746 across 22 hospitalsCA$5,746Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $582 across 13 hospitalsOK$582Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,078 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,078Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,763. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA22$5,746+226%$5,746 – $5,746
New Jersey NJ28$4,330+146%$3,594 – $5,339
New York NY22$3,840+118%$2,726 – $3,884
Texas TX21$3,078+75%$1,294 – $3,078
Minnesota MN12$2,225+26%$1,694 – $2,225
Wisconsin WI14$1,7630%$1,763 – $4,214
Michigan MI25$964−45%$572 – $1,564
Iowa IA14$852−52%$852 – $852
Illinois IL11$675−62%$397 – $861
Oregon OR11$662−62%$662 – $1,178
Oklahoma OK13$582−67%$582 – $6,615
Pennsylvania PA18$271−85%$221 – $5,486
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,763.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care243$2,225$600 – $4,636
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$1,763$638 – $4,214
Ownership
For-profit32$1,564$572 – $5,299
Government35$1,069$616 – $3,840
Non-profit231$2,130$602 – $4,499
System affiliation
Part of a system248$2,225$600 – $4,636
Independent50$937$602 – $3,257

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,532
Median cash price$1,763
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

157 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $933 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,655; most fall between $582 and $5,331.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 157 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
$397$582$933$3,078$5,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($397 vs $5,746).

Of the 174 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 157 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

298 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 326 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted298
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code326

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 Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrotomy Wrist Joint With Biopsy.

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, “Opening the wrist joint to take a tissue sample (CPT 25100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25100-opening-the-wrist-joint-to-take-a-tissue-sample