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Opening a midfoot joint to take a tissue sample

CPT 28050the billing code this page is about

The surgeon opens a joint between the midfoot bones and removes a sample of joint lining or tissue for testing.

Hospitals typically charge $2,183 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 288 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,269. Most fall between $608 and $4,568 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
288
States
39
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 288 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
$460$755$2,183$3,884$7,286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($460 vs $7,286).

How the prices are spread

$352 – $477: 26 hospitals$352$477 – $646: 19 hospitals$646 – $874: 27 hospitals$646$874 – $1,184: 22 hospitals$1,184 – $1,602: 24 hospitals$1,184$1,602 – $2,169: 10 hospitals$2,169 – $2,937: 26 hospitals$2,169$2,937 – $3,976: 49 hospitals$3,976 – $5,382: 25 hospitals$3,976$5,382 – $7,286: 34 hospitals$5,382median $2,183price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (262 of 288 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$352$47726
$477$64619
$646$87427
$874$1,18422
$1,184$1,60224
$1,602$2,16910
$2,169$2,93726
$2,937$3,97649
$3,976$5,38225
$5,382$7,28634

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,183
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.65×

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 $2,183.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,677 across 12 hospitalsMN$1,677Illinois: median $821 across 13 hospitalsIL$821Wisconsin: median $2,183 across 24 hospitalsWI$2,183Michigan: median $2,183 across 11 hospitalsMI$2,183New York: median $3,840 across 20 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,390 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,390Nevada: 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 $1,062 across 13 hospitalsIA$1,062Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,635 across 23 hospitalsPA$2,635New Jersey: median $4,627 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,286 across 24 hospitalsCA$7,286Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital 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 $466 across 13 hospitalsOK$466Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,778 across 18 hospitalsTX$3,778Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,183. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA24$7,286+234%$937 – $7,286
New Jersey NJ28$4,627+112%$3,594 – $21,220
New York NY20$3,840+76%$3,343 – $3,884
Texas TX18$3,778+73%$1,707 – $3,778
Pennsylvania PA23$2,635+21%$182 – $5,038
Michigan MI11$2,1830%$387 – $4,499
Wisconsin WI24$2,1830%$1,415 – $3,168
Minnesota MN12$1,677−23%$1,277 – $1,677
Oregon OR11$1,390−36%$755 – $1,390
Iowa IA13$1,062−51%$1,062 – $1,062
Illinois IL13$821−62%$487 – $1,393
Oklahoma OK13$466−79%$466 – $466
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,183.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care232$2,511$549 – $4,871
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$1,430$761 – $3,168
Ownership
For-profit28$1,494$487 – $4,601
Government32$979$503 – $3,840
Non-profit228$2,183$732 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system239$2,183$659 – $4,871
Independent49$934$498 – $3,553

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,604
Median cash price$2,183
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

162 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,219 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,832; most fall between $487 and $5,038.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 162 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
$427$487$1,219$3,778$7,286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($427 vs $7,286).

Of the 175 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 162 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

288 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 319 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted288
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code319

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 5, 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 Other diagnostic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Bx Synovium Tars/Tarsometa Jt.

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, “Opening a midfoot joint to take a tissue sample (CPT 28050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28050-opening-a-midfoot-joint-to-take-a-tissue-sample