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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of inflamed lining around wrist extensor tendons

CPT 25116the billing code this page is about

Extensive removal of diseased bursa or tendon sheath lining from the back of the wrist or forearm, involving the extensor tendons, with or without joint lining removal.

Hospitals typically charge $2,566 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 508 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,769. Most fall between $1,101 and $5,513 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
508
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 508 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
$763$1,198$2,566$4,499$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($763 vs $8,742).

How the prices are spread

$506 – $683: 26 hospitals$506$683 – $922: 24 hospitals$922 – $1,243: 59 hospitals$922$1,243 – $1,677: 56 hospitals$1,677 – $2,262: 53 hospitals$1,677$2,262 – $3,052: 28 hospitals$3,052 – $4,117: 89 hospitals$3,052$4,117 – $5,554: 52 hospitals$5,554 – $7,493: 36 hospitals$5,554$7,493 – $10,108: 39 hospitals$7,493median $2,566price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (462 of 508 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$506$68326
$683$92224
$922$1,24359
$1,243$1,67756
$1,677$2,26253
$2,262$3,05228
$3,052$4,11789
$4,117$5,55452
$5,554$7,49336
$7,493$10,10839

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,566
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $2,566.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $5,145 across 13 hospitalsID$5,145Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,667 across 20 hospitalsMN$3,667Illinois: median $1,213 across 18 hospitalsIL$1,213Wisconsin: median $3,193 across 27 hospitalsWI$3,193Michigan: median $1,167 across 32 hospitalsMI$1,167New York: median $3,840 across 33 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,480 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,480Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,966 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,966Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 23 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,330 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,742 across 37 hospitalsCA$8,742Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,859 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,859Missouri: median $951 across 11 hospitalsMO$951Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,017 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,017Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,002 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,002Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,220 across 28 hospitalsTX$3,220Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,566. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA37$8,742+241%$1,519 – $8,742
Idaho ID13$5,145+101%$1,122 – $8,372
New Jersey NJ30$4,330+69%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY33$3,840+50%$1,421 – $4,084
Minnesota MN20$3,667+43%$1,153 – $4,302
Texas TX28$3,220+25%$2,794 – $3,680
Wisconsin WI27$3,193+24%$2,118 – $5,926
Pennsylvania PA23$3,139+22%$397 – $5,873
Ohio OH16$1,966−23%$1,257 – $3,553
Nebraska NE10$1,859−28%$899 – $2,580
Iowa IA21$1,480−42%$1,345 – $1,628
Illinois IL18$1,213−53%$779 – $3,885
Michigan MI32$1,167−55%$506 – $4,499
West Virginia WV11$1,017−60%$636 – $1,613
Oklahoma OK13$1,002−61%$1,002 – $4,706
Missouri MO11$951−63%$937 – $3,261
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $2,566.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care396$3,193$1,137 – $6,114
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access104$1,796$951 – $3,990
Ownership
For-profit66$3,564$1,859 – $8,372
Government76$2,066$1,213 – $3,872
Non-profit366$2,413$1,002 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system389$3,193$1,017 – $5,814
Independent119$2,096$1,133 – $4,720

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,024
Median cash price$2,566
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,857 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,245; most fall between $1,002 and $5,145.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 271 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
$779$1,100$1,857$3,681$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($779 vs $8,742).

Of the 295 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 271 gave a usable cash price; 14 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

508 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 565 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted508
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code565

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rad Exc Bursa Synva Wrst/F/Arm Tdn Shths Xtnsrs.

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 inflamed lining around wrist extensor tendons (CPT 25116) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25116-removal-of-inflamed-lining-around-wrist-extensor-tendons