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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of radius and ulna

Surgery to repair a broken radius with internal fixation

CPT 25515the billing code this page is about

Open surgery on a break in the shaft of the radius, with plates, screws or other hardware placed inside to hold the bone.

Hospitals typically charge $3,344 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 733 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,941. Most fall between $1,156 and $9,068 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
733
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 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 733 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
$728$1,357$3,344$7,980$14,899

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($728 vs $14,899).

How the prices are spread

$573 – $812: 50 hospitals$573$812 – $1,152: 59 hospitals$1,152 – $1,632: 98 hospitals$1,152$1,632 – $2,314: 83 hospitals$2,314 – $3,280: 37 hospitals$2,314$3,280 – $4,650: 75 hospitals$4,650 – $6,592: 49 hospitals$4,650$6,592 – $9,345: 109 hospitals$9,345 – $13,248: 51 hospitals$9,345$13,248 – $18,780: 50 hospitals$13,248median $3,344price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (661 of 733 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$573$81250
$812$1,15259
$1,152$1,63298
$1,632$2,31483
$2,314$3,28037
$3,280$4,65075
$4,650$6,59249
$6,592$9,345109
$9,345$13,24851
$13,248$18,78050

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,344
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.45×

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 $3,344.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,048 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,048New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,827 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,827Idaho: median $2,467 across 15 hospitalsID$2,467Montana: median $1,475 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,475North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,239 across 27 hospitalsMN$3,239Illinois: median $1,646 across 24 hospitalsIL$1,646Wisconsin: median $3,533 across 36 hospitalsWI$3,533Michigan: median $1,538 across 36 hospitalsMI$1,538New York: median $2,088 across 37 hospitalsNY$2,088Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,961 across 24 hospitalsOR$1,961Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $1,646 across 32 hospitalsIA$1,646Indiana: median $780 across 13 hospitalsIN$780Ohio: median $2,288 across 19 hospitalsOH$2,288Pennsylvania: median $3,594 across 26 hospitalsPA$3,594New Jersey: median $6,311 across 32 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,550 across 59 hospitalsCA$7,550Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $8,044 across 17 hospitalsCO$8,044Nebraska: median $2,251 across 19 hospitalsNE$2,251Missouri: median $5,934 across 13 hospitalsMO$5,934Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,667 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,667Virginia: median $5,803 across 11 hospitalsVA$5,803Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,439 across 13 hospitalsKS$1,439Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $5,403 across 14 hospitalsTN$5,403North Carolina: median $4,173 across 17 hospitalsNC$4,173South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,409 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,409Louisiana: median $8,392 across 10 hospitalsLA$8,392Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $6,980 across 11 hospitalsAL$6,980Georgia: median $6,653 across 14 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,911 across 34 hospitalsTX$6,911Florida: median $12,037 across 13 hospitalsFL$12,037
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,344. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL13$12,037+260%$2,288 – $19,646
Louisiana LA10$8,392+151%$7,107 – $14,516
Colorado CO17$8,044+141%$1,388 – $19,279
California CA59$7,550+126%$1,456 – $17,382
Alabama AL11$6,980+109%$3,837 – $16,557
Texas TX34$6,911+107%$2,653 – $13,668
Georgia GA14$6,653+99%$4,141 – $7,242
New Jersey NJ32$6,311+89%$3,986 – $8,413
Missouri MO13$5,934+77%$1,001 – $12,000
Virginia VA11$5,803+74%$452 – $17,491
Tennessee TN14$5,403+62%$625 – $9,657
North Carolina NC17$4,173+25%$1,480 – $4,173
Pennsylvania PA26$3,594+7%$440 – $11,093
Wisconsin WI36$3,533+6%$3,344 – $5,622
Minnesota MN27$3,239−3%$1,256 – $3,801
Idaho ID15$2,467−26%$1,120 – $12,106
Ohio OH19$2,288−32%$1,202 – $8,698
Nebraska NE19$2,251−33%$997 – $2,760
New York NY37$2,088−38%$1,085 – $8,454
Oregon OR24$1,961−41%$1,256 – $2,237
Washington WA18$1,827−45%$1,208 – $8,429
West Virginia WV18$1,667−50%$711 – $10,233
Iowa IA32$1,646−51%$1,303 – $1,882
Illinois IL24$1,646−51%$726 – $3,092
Michigan MI36$1,538−54%$1,070 – $3,533
Montana MT10$1,475−56%$749 – $3,148
Kansas KS13$1,439−57%$644 – $4,666
Oklahoma OK14$1,409−58%$1,409 – $13,058
Vermont VT10$1,048−69%$594 – $1,731
Indiana IN13$780−77%$726 – $3,008
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,344.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care516$4,666$1,357 – $11,093
Children’s20$4,772$1,643 – $9,125
Critical access196$1,628$973 – $3,533
Ownership
For-profit86$8,415$1,831 – $16,934
Government144$2,104$1,120 – $8,454
Non-profit502$3,133$1,120 – $8,413
System affiliation
Part of a system548$3,786$1,256 – $9,337
Independent185$2,087$1,086 – $7,647

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,128
Median cash price$3,344
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

360 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,395 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,308; most fall between $1,034 and $7,572.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 360 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
$726$1,243$2,395$6,742$14,899

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($726 vs $14,899).

Of the 408 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 360 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

733 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 821 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted733
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
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 — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code821

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of radius and ulna family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Treatment Radial Shaft Fracture W/Int Fixj.

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, “Surgery to repair a broken radius with internal fixation (CPT 25515) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25515-surgery-to-repair-a-broken-radius-with-internal-fixation