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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Lengthening or shortening of a wrist or forearm tendon

CPT 25280the billing code this page is about

Surgery to make one flexor or extensor tendon of the forearm or wrist longer or shorter; the price applies to each tendon treated.

Hospitals typically charge $2,586 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 373 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,659. Most fall between $1,063 and $5,486 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
373
States
44
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 373 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
$693$1,192$2,586$4,499$8,089

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($693 vs $8,089).

How the prices are spread

$547 – $732: 25 hospitals$547$732 – $981: 15 hospitals$981 – $1,313: 46 hospitals$981$1,313 – $1,758: 31 hospitals$1,758 – $2,354: 28 hospitals$1,758$2,354 – $3,153: 61 hospitals$3,153 – $4,222: 53 hospitals$3,153$4,222 – $5,653: 23 hospitals$5,653 – $7,570: 27 hospitals$5,653$7,570 – $10,137: 28 hospitals$7,570median $2,586price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (337 of 373 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$547$73225
$732$98115
$981$1,31346
$1,313$1,75831
$1,758$2,35428
$2,354$3,15361
$3,153$4,22253
$4,222$5,65323
$5,653$7,57027
$7,570$10,13728

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,586
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 $2,586.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $3,419 across 14 hospitalsMN$3,419Illinois: median $1,044 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,044Wisconsin: median $2,838 across 14 hospitalsWI$2,838Michigan: median $1,335 across 15 hospitalsMI$1,335New York: median $3,840 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,898 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,898Nevada: 2 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 $1,395 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,395Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,921 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,921Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,509 across 31 hospitalsCA$2,509Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,845 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,845Missouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $1,192 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,192Louisiana: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,018 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,018Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,586. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+79%$3,594 – $8,488
New York NY26$3,840+48%$1,357 – $3,884
Minnesota MN14$3,419+32%$2,603 – $3,696
Texas TX24$3,018+17%$1,158 – $3,018
Wisconsin WI14$2,838+10%$2,838 – $6,911
California CA31$2,509−3%$2,509 – $3,769
Pennsylvania PA20$2,382−8%$356 – $5,486
Ohio OH12$1,921−26%$1,001 – $2,186
Oregon OR11$1,898−27%$1,063 – $1,898
Nebraska NE10$1,845−29%$1,219 – $4,079
Iowa IA15$1,395−46%$1,395 – $1,395
Michigan MI15$1,335−48%$869 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK14$1,192−54%$1,192 – $6,615
Illinois IL12$1,044−60%$693 – $2,372
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not 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
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,586.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care300$2,794$1,092 – $5,419
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$1,988$1,078 – $5,814
Ownership
For-profit40$3,018$749 – $9,441
Government53$1,811$1,037 – $4,111
Non-profit279$2,509$1,095 – $5,038
System affiliation
Part of a system300$2,879$1,192 – $5,855
Independent73$1,671$937 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,665
Median cash price$2,586
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

182 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,811 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,991; most fall between $1,029 and $3,696.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 182 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
$693$1,063$1,811$3,018$6,911

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($693 vs $6,911).

Of the 200 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 182 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

373 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 409 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted373
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 code409

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 Lngth/Shrt Flxr/Xtnsr Tdn F/Arm&/Wrist 1 Ea Tdn.

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, “Lengthening or shortening of a wrist or forearm tendon (CPT 25280) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25280-lengthening-or-shortening-of-a-wrist-or-forearm-tendon