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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Removal of the bony bump at the thumb side of the wrist

CPT 25230the billing code this page is about

Surgery to shave away the styloid process, the bony prominence at the end of the radius near the base of the thumb.

Hospitals typically charge $2,211 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 379 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,350. Most fall between $751 and $4,499 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
379
States
44
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 379 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
$526$878$2,211$3,840$7,970

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($526 vs $7,970).

How the prices are spread

$460 – $629: 37 hospitals$460$629 – $862: 39 hospitals$862 – $1,180: 39 hospitals$862$1,180 – $1,615: 37 hospitals$1,615 – $2,211: 17 hospitals$1,615$2,211 – $3,027: 27 hospitals$3,027 – $4,144: 80 hospitals$3,027$4,144 – $5,674: 25 hospitals$5,674 – $7,769: 21 hospitals$5,674$7,769 – $10,636: 21 hospitals$7,769median $2,211price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (343 of 379 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$460$62937
$629$86239
$862$1,18039
$1,180$1,61537
$1,615$2,21117
$2,211$3,02727
$3,027$4,14480
$4,144$5,67425
$5,674$7,76921
$7,769$10,63621

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,211
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $2,211.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,910 across 11 hospitalsID$3,910Montana: 5 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 $2,211 across 17 hospitalsMN$2,211Illinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $2,182 across 11 hospitalsWI$2,182Michigan: median $580 across 23 hospitalsMI$580New York: median $3,840 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,055 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,055Nevada: 4 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 $1,064 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,064Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,396 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,396Pennsylvania: median $2,683 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,683New 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 $3,472 across 28 hospitalsCA$3,472Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 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: 4 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $720 across 13 hospitalsOK$720Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,276 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,276Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,211. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$4,330+96%$3,594 – $5,855
Idaho ID11$3,910+77%$3,554 – $8,372
New York NY26$3,840+74%$1,289 – $3,884
California CA28$3,472+57%$1,207 – $3,472
Texas TX24$3,276+48%$2,653 – $3,276
Pennsylvania PA21$2,683+21%$286 – $5,486
Minnesota MN17$2,2110%$1,657 – $2,438
Wisconsin WI11$2,182−1%$2,182 – $2,890
Ohio OH13$1,396−37%$826 – $1,986
Iowa IA19$1,064−52%$1,064 – $1,260
Oregon OR11$1,055−52%$818 – $1,457
Oklahoma OK13$720−67%$720 – $6,615
Michigan MI23$580−74%$580 – $1,268
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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 $2,211.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care308$3,014$751 – $4,871
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$1,457$758 – $2,838
Ownership
For-profit47$3,554$826 – $9,441
Government59$1,763$805 – $5,981
Non-profit273$2,182$720 – $3,986
System affiliation
Part of a system291$2,438$720 – $4,499
Independent88$1,450$793 – $4,233

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,915
Median cash price$2,211
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

187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,304 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,880; most fall between $720 and $3,472.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 187 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
$493$793$1,304$3,472$7,106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($493 vs $7,106).

Of the 206 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 187 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 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

379 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 418 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted379
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code418

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 Radical Styloidectomy Separate Procedure.

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 the bony bump at the thumb side of the wrist (CPT 25230) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25230-removal-of-the-bony-bump-at-the-thumb-side-of-the-wrist