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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Open exploration of the wrist joint, with or without biopsy

CPT 25101the billing code this page is about

Opening the wrist joint through an incision to inspect it, with a tissue sample taken if needed.

Hospitals typically charge $2,072 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 503 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,431. Most fall between $725 and $4,938 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
503
States
45
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 503 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
$491$811$2,072$4,664$8,159

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($491 vs $8,159).

How the prices are spread

$425 – $573: 34 hospitals$425$573 – $773: 60 hospitals$773 – $1,042: 38 hospitals$773$1,042 – $1,405: 61 hospitals$1,405 – $1,895: 17 hospitals$1,405$1,895 – $2,555: 44 hospitals$2,555 – $3,444: 27 hospitals$2,555$3,444 – $4,644: 69 hospitals$4,644 – $6,261: 46 hospitals$4,644$6,261 – $8,442: 57 hospitals$6,261median $2,072price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (453 of 503 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$425$57334
$573$77360
$773$1,04238
$1,042$1,40561
$1,405$1,89517
$1,895$2,55544
$2,555$3,44427
$3,444$4,64469
$4,644$6,26146
$6,261$8,44257

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,072
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $2,072.

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: median $802 across 10 hospitalsVT$802New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $802 across 10 hospitalsWA$802Idaho: median $3,910 across 10 hospitalsID$3,910Montana: 9 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 $1,899 across 20 hospitalsMN$1,899Illinois: median $983 across 16 hospitalsIL$983Wisconsin: median $2,072 across 32 hospitalsWI$2,072Michigan: median $1,166 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,166New York: median $3,840 across 28 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $993 across 19 hospitalsIA$993Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,256 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,256Pennsylvania: median $4,493 across 36 hospitalsPA$4,493New Jersey: median $4,130 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,130Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 43 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $6,618 across 10 hospitalsCO$6,618Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $434 across 10 hospitalsWV$434Virginia: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 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: 4 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 $676 across 15 hospitalsOK$676Louisiana: 4 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,127 across 28 hospitalsTX$3,127Florida: median $6,613 across 10 hospitalsFL$6,613
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,072. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO10$6,618+219%$584 – $8,676
Florida FL10$6,613+219%$1,256 – $6,613
California CA43$4,914+137%$1,223 – $8,159
Pennsylvania PA36$4,493+117%$303 – $5,384
New Jersey NJ29$4,130+99%$3,591 – $5,419
Idaho ID10$3,910+89%$1,338 – $8,372
New York NY28$3,840+85%$1,197 – $4,663
Texas TX28$3,127+51%$3,050 – $7,944
Wisconsin WI32$2,0720%$2,040 – $4,664
Minnesota MN20$1,899−8%$844 – $2,228
Ohio OH12$1,256−39%$837 – $1,511
Michigan MI29$1,166−44%$789 – $2,072
Iowa IA19$993−52%$908 – $1,048
Illinois IL16$983−53%$478 – $4,353
Washington WA10$802−61%$768 – $2,662
Vermont VT10$802−61%$411 – $1,101
Oklahoma OK15$676−67%$676 – $7,109
West Virginia WV10$434−79%$429 – $1,068
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $2,072.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care365$3,257$760 – $6,311
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access129$1,166$653 – $2,228
Ownership
For-profit49$3,727$751 – $8,372
Government86$1,138$721 – $3,840
Non-profit368$2,072$725 – $4,914
System affiliation
Part of a system398$2,228$751 – $5,384
Independent105$1,211$711 – $3,870

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,958
Median cash price$2,072
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

293 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,857 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,234; most fall between $676 and $5,384.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 293 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
$478$760$1,857$4,914$8,159

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($478 vs $8,159).

Of the 320 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 293 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

503 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 558 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted503
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code558

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 diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrt Wrst W/Jt Expl W/WO Bx W/WO Rmvl Loose/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 exploration of the wrist joint, with or without biopsy (CPT 25101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25101-open-exploration-of-the-wrist-joint-with-or-without-biopsy