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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Removal of a bone cyst or tumor from the forearm bone

CPT 25120the billing code this page is about

Surgery to cut or scrape out a cyst or benign tumor from the radius or ulna, not including the wrist end of the bones, without a bone graft.

Hospitals typically charge $2,033 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 459 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,531. Most fall between $944 and $5,486 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
459
States
46
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 459 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
$676$1,111$2,033$4,499$6,361

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($676 vs $6,361).

How the prices are spread

$540 – $722: 26 hospitals$540$722 – $964: 50 hospitals$964 – $1,288: 54 hospitals$964$1,288 – $1,721: 50 hospitals$1,721 – $2,300: 35 hospitals$1,721$2,300 – $3,073: 23 hospitals$3,073 – $4,106: 67 hospitals$3,073$4,106 – $5,486: 41 hospitals$5,486 – $7,330: 58 hospitals$5,486$7,330 – $9,794: 11 hospitals$7,330median $2,033price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (415 of 459 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$540$72226
$722$96450
$964$1,28854
$1,288$1,72150
$1,721$2,30035
$2,300$3,07323
$3,073$4,10667
$4,106$5,48641
$5,486$7,33058
$7,330$9,79411

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,033
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.61×

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 $2,033.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,910 across 12 hospitalsID$3,910Montana: 6 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 $1,752 across 15 hospitalsMN$1,752Illinois: median $1,232 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,232Wisconsin: median $2,522 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,522Michigan: median $1,126 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,126New York: median $3,840 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,232 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,232Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,630 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,630Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,187 across 42 hospitalsCA$4,187Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 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: 5 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $834 across 14 hospitalsOK$834Louisiana: median $2,974 across 12 hospitalsLA$2,974Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 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 $3,329 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,329Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,033. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$4,330+113%$3,594 – $5,419
California CA42$4,187+106%$1,472 – $5,908
Idaho ID12$3,910+92%$1,951 – $8,372
New York NY26$3,840+89%$1,513 – $4,084
Texas TX24$3,329+64%$1,707 – $3,329
Louisiana LA12$2,974+46%$1,324 – $5,044
Wisconsin WI30$2,522+24%$1,955 – $4,106
Pennsylvania PA21$2,382+17%$330 – $5,038
Minnesota MN15$1,752−14%$855 – $3,696
Ohio OH16$1,630−20%$987 – $2,293
Iowa IA16$1,232−39%$1,232 – $1,258
Illinois IL13$1,232−39%$676 – $3,419
Michigan MI31$1,126−45%$1,126 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK14$834−59%$834 – $6,615
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,033.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care348$2,580$946 – $5,610
Children’s21$2,293$1,229 – $5,462
Critical access89$1,399$885 – $3,329
Ownership
For-profit53$3,910$1,111 – $7,268
Government70$1,500$885 – $3,840
Non-profit335$1,955$946 – $5,419
System affiliation
Part of a system362$2,465$953 – $5,580
Independent97$1,596$927 – $4,720

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,508
Median cash price$2,033
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

250 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,556 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,840; most fall between $834 and $4,250.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 250 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
$676$922$1,556$3,329$5,908

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($676 vs $5,908).

Of the 275 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 250 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

459 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 509 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted459
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code509

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 Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision/Curettage Cyst/Tumor Radius/Ulna.

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 bone cyst or tumor from the forearm bone (CPT 25120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25120-removal-of-a-bone-cyst-or-tumor-from-the-forearm-bone