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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of a deep foreign object from forearm or wrist

CPT 25248the billing code this page is about

Surgical exploration of the forearm or wrist to locate and remove an object embedded in deep tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $1,894 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,080 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,137. Most fall between $852 and $4,458 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,080
States
49
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 1,080 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
$623$979$1,894$3,941$5,982

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($623 vs $5,982).

How the prices are spread

$458 – $609: 53 hospitals$458$609 – $811: 92 hospitals$811 – $1,079: 125 hospitals$811$1,079 – $1,435: 107 hospitals$1,435 – $1,909: 127 hospitals$1,435$1,909 – $2,540: 128 hospitals$2,540 – $3,379: 63 hospitals$2,540$3,379 – $4,495: 122 hospitals$4,495 – $5,980: 105 hospitals$4,495$5,980 – $7,956: 56 hospitals$5,980median $1,894price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (978 of 1,080 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$458$60953
$609$81192
$811$1,079125
$1,079$1,435107
$1,435$1,909127
$1,909$2,540128
$2,540$3,37963
$3,379$4,495122
$4,495$5,980105
$5,980$7,95656

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,894
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $1,894.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $926 across 11 hospitalsME$926Vermont: median $723 across 10 hospitalsVT$723New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,945 across 46 hospitalsWA$1,945Idaho: median $3,500 across 15 hospitalsID$3,500Montana: median $785 across 10 hospitalsMT$785North Dakota: median $1,648 across 10 hospitalsND$1,648Minnesota: median $1,367 across 36 hospitalsMN$1,367Illinois: median $1,445 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,445Wisconsin: median $2,078 across 44 hospitalsWI$2,078Michigan: median $676 across 36 hospitalsMI$676New York: median $1,894 across 49 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,474 across 20 hospitalsMA$2,474Oregon: median $1,552 across 36 hospitalsOR$1,552Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,019 across 28 hospitalsIA$1,019Indiana: median $1,658 across 30 hospitalsIN$1,658Ohio: median $1,381 across 21 hospitalsOH$1,381Pennsylvania: median $2,044 across 41 hospitalsPA$2,044New Jersey: median $2,136 across 33 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: median $3,129 across 11 hospitalsCT$3,129Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,598 across 78 hospitalsCA$3,598Utah: median $891 across 25 hospitalsUT$891Colorado: median $2,231 across 21 hospitalsCO$2,231Nebraska: median $960 across 15 hospitalsNE$960Missouri: median $1,772 across 31 hospitalsMO$1,772Kentucky: median $509 across 10 hospitalsKY$509West Virginia: median $1,012 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,012Virginia: median $2,941 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,941Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $601 across 22 hospitalsKS$601Arkansas: median $1,625 across 11 hospitalsAR$1,625Tennessee: median $838 across 12 hospitalsTN$838North Carolina: median $3,623 across 21 hospitalsNC$3,623South Carolina: median $4,979 across 15 hospitalsSC$4,979Oklahoma: median $705 across 22 hospitalsOK$705Louisiana: median $2,373 across 13 hospitalsLA$2,373Mississippi: median $1,167 across 23 hospitalsMS$1,167Alabama: median $2,027 across 10 hospitalsAL$2,027Georgia: median $5,849 across 33 hospitalsGA$5,849Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,662 across 77 hospitalsTX$4,662Florida: median $3,824 across 33 hospitalsFL$3,824
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,894. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA33$5,849+209%$3,317 – $10,083
South Carolina SC15$4,979+163%$3,680 – $7,956
Texas TX77$4,662+146%$2,375 – $5,310
Florida FL33$3,824+102%$1,606 – $6,844
North Carolina NC21$3,623+91%$1,412 – $3,774
California CA78$3,598+90%$1,687 – $7,694
Idaho ID15$3,500+85%$802 – $4,436
Connecticut CT11$3,129+65%$2,159 – $4,520
Virginia VA10$2,941+55%$1,075 – $3,336
Massachusetts MA20$2,474+31%$1,266 – $4,329
Louisiana LA13$2,373+25%$1,545 – $2,649
Colorado CO21$2,231+18%$885 – $4,181
New Jersey NJ33$2,136+13%$1,771 – $5,419
Wisconsin WI44$2,078+10%$1,122 – $2,118
Pennsylvania PA41$2,044+8%$322 – $3,016
Alabama AL10$2,027+7%$1,836 – $2,873
Washington WA46$1,945+3%$968 – $3,511
New York NY49$1,8940%$825 – $4,617
Missouri MO31$1,772−6%$647 – $3,415
Indiana IN30$1,658−12%$509 – $2,559
North Dakota ND10$1,648−13%$875 – $2,967
Arkansas AR11$1,625−14%$828 – $3,609
Oregon OR36$1,552−18%$988 – $4,274
Illinois IL36$1,445−24%$766 – $3,239
Ohio OH21$1,381−27%$715 – $4,785
Minnesota MN36$1,367−28%$734 – $1,884
Mississippi MS23$1,167−38%$915 – $2,266
Iowa IA28$1,019−46%$888 – $1,193
West Virginia WV18$1,012−47%$456 – $3,029
Nebraska NE15$960−49%$835 – $2,062
Maine ME11$926−51%$465 – $1,123
Utah UT25$891−53%$864 – $1,006
Tennessee TN12$838−56%$401 – $2,010
Montana MT10$785−59%$324 – $1,291
Vermont VT10$723−62%$576 – $1,262
Oklahoma OK22$705−63%$705 – $1,796
Michigan MI36$676−64%$458 – $1,700
Kansas KS22$601−68%$434 – $746
Kentucky KY10$509−73%$409 – $2,470
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $1,894.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care779$2,119$988 – $4,940
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access281$1,167$705 – $2,381
Ownership
For-profit102$3,486$1,024 – $6,762
Government209$1,613$844 – $3,623
Non-profit767$1,903$838 – $4,466
System affiliation
Part of a system870$2,027$915 – $4,662
Independent210$1,351$715 – $3,193

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,439
Median cash price$1,894
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

726 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,044 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,350; most fall between $864 and $4,662.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 726 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$990$2,044$4,245$6,927

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($676 vs $6,927).

Of the 781 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 726 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,080 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,171 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,080
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,171

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 Expl W/Removal Deep Foreign Body Forearm/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 deep foreign object from forearm or wrist (CPT 25248) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25248-removal-of-a-deep-foreign-object-from-forearm-or-wrist