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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of a wrist ganglion cyst, first-time surgery

CPT 25111the billing code this page is about

Surgery to cut out a fluid-filled ganglion cyst on the back or palm side of the wrist when it has not been operated on before.

Hospitals typically charge $1,647 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,269 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,929. Most fall between $643 and $4,434 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,269
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 1,269 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
$452$756$1,647$3,786$6,589

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($452 vs $6,589).

How the prices are spread

$348 – $482: 87 hospitals$348$482 – $669: 116 hospitals$669 – $928: 154 hospitals$669$928 – $1,286: 115 hospitals$1,286 – $1,783: 148 hospitals$1,286$1,783 – $2,473: 125 hospitals$2,473 – $3,429: 101 hospitals$2,473$3,429 – $4,755: 142 hospitals$4,755 – $6,593: 92 hospitals$4,755$6,593 – $9,142: 63 hospitals$6,593median $1,647price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,143 of 1,269 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$348$48287
$482$669116
$669$928154
$928$1,286115
$1,286$1,783148
$1,783$2,473125
$2,473$3,429101
$3,429$4,755142
$4,755$6,59392
$6,593$9,14263

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,647
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $1,647.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $550 across 12 hospitalsME$550Vermont: median $794 across 10 hospitalsVT$794New Hampshire: median $474 across 12 hospitalsNH$474Washington: median $1,541 across 41 hospitalsWA$1,541Idaho: median $2,459 across 20 hospitalsID$2,459Montana: median $604 across 17 hospitalsMT$604North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,211 across 51 hospitalsMN$1,211Illinois: median $1,402 across 49 hospitalsIL$1,402Wisconsin: median $1,562 across 52 hospitalsWI$1,562Michigan: median $911 across 45 hospitalsMI$911New York: median $1,894 across 69 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $4,047 across 17 hospitalsMA$4,047Oregon: median $1,094 across 37 hospitalsOR$1,094Nevada: 9 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 $2,114 across 12 hospitalsSD$2,114Iowa: median $790 across 63 hospitalsIA$790Indiana: median $1,162 across 31 hospitalsIN$1,162Ohio: median $4,785 across 50 hospitalsOH$4,785Pennsylvania: median $1,581 across 40 hospitalsPA$1,581New Jersey: median $2,136 across 34 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,229 across 82 hospitalsCA$3,229Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,242 across 23 hospitalsCO$1,242Nebraska: median $837 across 35 hospitalsNE$837Missouri: median $2,145 across 32 hospitalsMO$2,145Kentucky: median $699 across 18 hospitalsKY$699West Virginia: median $1,313 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,313Virginia: median $4,593 across 18 hospitalsVA$4,593Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,593 across 13 hospitalsAZ$1,593New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $707 across 47 hospitalsKS$707Arkansas: median $1,023 across 18 hospitalsAR$1,023Tennessee: median $3,761 across 18 hospitalsTN$3,761North Carolina: median $3,702 across 26 hospitalsNC$3,702South Carolina: median $6,447 across 11 hospitalsSC$6,447Oklahoma: median $531 across 21 hospitalsOK$531Louisiana: median $1,950 across 18 hospitalsLA$1,950Mississippi: median $2,195 across 16 hospitalsMS$2,195Alabama: median $3,103 across 16 hospitalsAL$3,103Georgia: median $5,814 across 16 hospitalsGA$5,814Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,054 across 65 hospitalsTX$2,054Florida: median $2,282 across 26 hospitalsFL$2,282
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,647. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$6,447+291%$1,926 – $8,290
Georgia GA16$5,814+253%$1,604 – $6,653
Ohio OH50$4,785+191%$918 – $9,720
Virginia VA18$4,593+179%$392 – $8,506
Massachusetts MA17$4,047+146%$2,082 – $6,876
Tennessee TN18$3,761+128%$324 – $5,150
North Carolina NC26$3,702+125%$1,188 – $4,213
California CA82$3,229+96%$1,058 – $6,507
Alabama AL16$3,103+88%$1,435 – $7,921
Idaho ID20$2,459+49%$798 – $3,644
Florida FL26$2,282+39%$918 – $4,291
Mississippi MS16$2,195+33%$738 – $5,869
Missouri MO32$2,145+30%$489 – $6,907
New Jersey NJ34$2,136+30%$1,773 – $5,419
South Dakota SD12$2,114+28%$1,570 – $3,786
Texas TX65$2,054+25%$1,551 – $3,945
Louisiana LA18$1,950+18%$1,254 – $3,300
New York NY69$1,894+15%$734 – $4,595
Arizona AZ13$1,593−3%$511 – $9,743
Pennsylvania PA40$1,581−4%$243 – $3,016
Wisconsin WI52$1,562−5%$865 – $1,728
Washington WA41$1,541−6%$636 – $3,632
Illinois IL49$1,402−15%$616 – $3,304
West Virginia WV25$1,313−20%$373 – $2,712
Colorado CO23$1,242−25%$593 – $4,181
Minnesota MN51$1,211−27%$690 – $1,989
Indiana IN31$1,162−29%$420 – $5,540
Oregon OR37$1,094−34%$618 – $4,274
Arkansas AR18$1,023−38%$671 – $4,602
Michigan MI45$911−45%$388 – $2,211
Nebraska NE35$837−49%$708 – $2,588
Vermont VT10$794−52%$437 – $954
Iowa IA63$790−52%$628 – $1,346
Kansas KS47$707−57%$456 – $2,201
Kentucky KY18$699−58%$420 – $2,621
Montana MT17$604−63%$361 – $1,345
Maine ME12$550−67%$310 – $1,139
Oklahoma OK21$531−68%$531 – $3,263
New Hampshire NH12$474−71%$223 – $1,257
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $1,647.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care834$2,089$801 – $5,419
Children’s23$2,021$900 – $9,050
Critical access411$876$523 – $1,984
Ownership
For-profit141$3,348$1,136 – $6,961
Government277$1,094$610 – $3,347
Non-profit850$1,722$621 – $4,544
System affiliation
Part of a system947$1,876$731 – $4,785
Independent322$1,026$525 – $2,834

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,490
Median cash price$1,647
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

641 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,346 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,563; most fall between $592 and $3,509.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 641 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
$420$682$1,346$3,287$4,519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($420 vs $4,519).

Of the 713 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 641 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,269 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,392 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,269
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,392

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 Excis Primary Ganglion Wrist.

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, “Removal of a wrist ganglion cyst, first-time surgery (CPT 25111) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25111-removal-of-a-wrist-ganglion-cyst-first-time-surgery