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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Shortening of a forearm bone

CPT 25390the billing code this page is about

Surgery that removes a segment of either the radius or the ulna to make the bone shorter and even out the forearm.

Hospitals typically charge $3,829 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 516 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,536. Most fall between $1,508 and $10,083 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
516
States
46
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 516 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
$948$1,666$3,829$8,454$16,531

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($948 vs $16,531).

How the prices are spread

$756 – $1,051: 32 hospitals$756$1,051 – $1,462: 42 hospitals$1,462 – $2,033: 70 hospitals$1,462$2,033 – $2,827: 53 hospitals$2,827 – $3,932: 40 hospitals$2,827$3,932 – $5,468: 49 hospitals$5,468 – $7,605: 44 hospitals$5,468$7,605 – $10,577: 63 hospitals$10,577 – $14,710: 22 hospitals$10,577$14,710 – $20,457: 52 hospitals$14,710median $3,829price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (467 of 516 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$756$1,05132
$1,051$1,46242
$1,462$2,03370
$2,033$2,82753
$2,827$3,93240
$3,932$5,46849
$5,468$7,60544
$7,605$10,57763
$10,577$14,71022
$14,710$20,45752

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,829
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.52×

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 $3,829.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,746 across 10 hospitalsWA$2,746Idaho: median $7,730 across 14 hospitalsID$7,730Montana: 6 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 $4,744 across 18 hospitalsMN$4,744Illinois: median $1,461 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,461Wisconsin: median $4,256 across 29 hospitalsWI$4,256Michigan: median $1,850 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,850New York: median $7,413 across 32 hospitalsNY$7,413Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,709 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,709Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,898 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,898Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,782 across 16 hospitalsOH$2,782Pennsylvania: median $5,050 across 21 hospitalsPA$5,050New Jersey: median $7,903 across 29 hospitalsNJ$7,903Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $15,136 across 47 hospitalsCA$15,136Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $5,395 across 15 hospitalsCO$5,395Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $813 across 10 hospitalsWV$813Virginia: 3 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $4,521 across 11 hospitalsTN$4,521North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,619 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,619Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,610 across 28 hospitalsTX$6,610Florida: median $16,041 across 10 hospitalsFL$16,041
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,829. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL10$16,041+319%$2,782 – $16,041
California CA47$15,136+295%$3,255 – $16,531
New Jersey NJ29$7,903+106%$5,110 – $9,388
Idaho ID14$7,730+102%$1,418 – $12,106
New York NY32$7,413+94%$1,408 – $8,454
Texas TX28$6,610+73%$6,610 – $14,038
Colorado CO15$5,395+41%$1,283 – $19,279
Pennsylvania PA21$5,050+32%$503 – $12,077
Minnesota MN18$4,744+24%$1,911 – $5,388
Tennessee TN11$4,521+18%$756 – $9,072
Wisconsin WI29$4,256+11%$3,829 – $5,319
Ohio OH16$2,782−27%$1,882 – $16,701
Washington WA10$2,746−28%$2,038 – $3,620
Iowa IA18$1,898−50%$1,898 – $1,905
Michigan MI31$1,850−52%$1,850 – $4,823
Oregon OR14$1,709−55%$1,434 – $2,562
Oklahoma OK14$1,619−58%$1,619 – $13,715
Illinois IL14$1,461−62%$948 – $3,789
West Virginia WV10$813−79%$797 – $2,077
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not 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 $3,829.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care389$4,744$1,619 – $12,106
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access109$2,562$1,084 – $4,823
Ownership
For-profit59$7,170$2,112 – $17,443
Government78$2,216$1,392 – $8,454
Non-profit378$3,829$1,508 – $9,532
System affiliation
Part of a system403$4,256$1,619 – $12,106
Independent113$2,312$1,266 – $7,508

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,053
Median cash price$3,829
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

255 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,089 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,541; most fall between $1,408 and $10,491.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 255 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
$948$1,508$3,089$7,525$16,531

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($948 vs $16,531).

Of the 277 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 255 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 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

516 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 567 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted516
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code567

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 OR therapeutic procedures on bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Osteoplasty Radius/Ulna Shortening.

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, “Shortening of a forearm bone (CPT 25390) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25390-shortening-of-a-forearm-bone