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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty other than hip or knee

Replacement of the lower ulna with an implant

CPT 25442the billing code this page is about

Joint reconstruction surgery in which the end of the ulna at the wrist is replaced with an artificial implant.

Hospitals typically charge $4,029 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 263 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $8,357. Most fall between $1,337 and $21,923 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
263
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 263 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
$890$1,435$4,029$21,657$28,672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($890 vs $28,672).

How the prices are spread

$701 – $1,023: 24 hospitals$701$1,023 – $1,495: 34 hospitals$1,495 – $2,183: 31 hospitals$1,495$2,183 – $3,189: 18 hospitals$3,189 – $4,658: 16 hospitals$3,189$4,658 – $6,804: 12 hospitals$6,804 – $9,939: 3 hospitals$6,804$9,939 – $14,518: 11 hospitals$14,518 – $21,206: 33 hospitals$14,518$21,206 – $30,975: 56 hospitals$21,206median $4,029price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (238 of 263 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$701$1,02324
$1,023$1,49534
$1,495$2,18331
$2,183$3,18918
$3,189$4,65816
$4,658$6,80412
$6,804$9,9393
$9,939$14,51811
$14,518$21,20633
$21,206$30,97556

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$17,914
Median cash price$4,029
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.22×

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 $4,029.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,466 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,466Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,342 across 12 hospitalsMI$1,342New York: median $21,762 across 21 hospitalsNY$21,762Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,511 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,511Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,993 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,993Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $622 across 18 hospitalsPA$622New Jersey: median $20,098 across 28 hospitalsNJ$20,098Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $28,672 across 22 hospitalsCA$28,672Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 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: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,337 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,337Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $11,088 across 21 hospitalsTX$11,088Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,029. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA22$28,672+612%$28,672 – $28,672
New York NY21$21,762+440%$8,375 – $21,762
New Jersey NJ28$20,098+399%$5,110 – $22,686
Texas TX21$11,088+175%$2,653 – $16,140
Iowa IA14$1,993−51%$1,993 – $1,993
Oregon OR10$1,511−63%$1,511 – $2,696
Illinois IL11$1,466−64%$890 – $1,993
Michigan MI12$1,342−67%$1,342 – $24,110
Oklahoma OK13$1,337−67%$1,337 – $1,337
Pennsylvania PA18$622−85%$506 – $31,091
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $4,029.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care225$5,741$1,337 – $24,110
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$2,696$1,342 – $17,113
Ownership
For-profit34$5,981$890 – $25,917
Government33$2,310$1,342 – $21,762
Non-profit196$4,350$1,337 – $24,110
System affiliation
Part of a system220$4,881$1,337 – $24,110
Independent43$2,544$1,271 – $17,316

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,851
Median cash price$4,029
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

140 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,993 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,470; most fall between $1,337 and $20,834.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 140 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
$890$1,337$1,993$18,423$28,672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($890 vs $28,672).

Of the 153 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 140 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

263 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 294 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted263
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code294

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 Arthroplasty other than hip or knee family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthroplasty W/Prosthetic Rplcmt Distal 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, “Replacement of the lower ulna with an implant (CPT 25442) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25442-replacement-of-the-lower-ulna-with-an-implant