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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of a cyst or lump from a foot tendon or joint lining

CPT 28090the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a growth such as a ganglion or cyst from a tendon, tendon sheath, or joint capsule in the foot, which may include removing inflamed joint lining.

Hospitals typically charge $1,650 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 990 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,974. Most fall between $723 and $4,572 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
990
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 990 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
$519$809$1,650$3,905$6,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($519 vs $6,653).

How the prices are spread

$431 – $596: 87 hospitals$431$596 – $825: 118 hospitals$825 – $1,141: 98 hospitals$825$1,141 – $1,579: 121 hospitals$1,579 – $2,186: 124 hospitals$1,579$2,186 – $3,024: 74 hospitals$3,024 – $4,185: 99 hospitals$3,024$4,185 – $5,790: 81 hospitals$5,790 – $8,012: 58 hospitals$5,790$8,012 – $11,087: 32 hospitals$8,012median $1,650price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (892 of 990 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$431$59687
$596$825118
$825$1,14198
$1,141$1,579121
$1,579$2,186124
$2,186$3,02474
$3,024$4,18599
$4,185$5,79081
$5,790$8,01258
$8,012$11,08732

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,650
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $1,650.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $598 across 10 hospitalsME$598Vermont: median $738 across 10 hospitalsVT$738New Hampshire: median $445 across 10 hospitalsNH$445Washington: median $1,069 across 25 hospitalsWA$1,069Idaho: median $1,306 across 17 hospitalsID$1,306Montana: median $579 across 12 hospitalsMT$579North Dakota: median $1,648 across 10 hospitalsND$1,648Minnesota: median $1,125 across 44 hospitalsMN$1,125Illinois: median $1,092 across 37 hospitalsIL$1,092Wisconsin: median $1,548 across 43 hospitalsWI$1,548Michigan: median $730 across 43 hospitalsMI$730New York: median $1,894 across 64 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,276 across 14 hospitalsMA$2,276Oregon: median $1,473 across 26 hospitalsOR$1,473Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,168 across 43 hospitalsIA$1,168Indiana: median $1,076 across 23 hospitalsIN$1,076Ohio: median $1,747 across 32 hospitalsOH$1,747Pennsylvania: median $1,876 across 44 hospitalsPA$1,876New Jersey: median $2,136 across 35 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,796 across 59 hospitalsCA$3,796Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,570 across 18 hospitalsCO$2,570Nebraska: median $1,141 across 19 hospitalsNE$1,141Missouri: median $1,168 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,168Kentucky: median $698 across 12 hospitalsKY$698West Virginia: median $1,704 across 23 hospitalsWV$1,704Virginia: median $1,179 across 16 hospitalsVA$1,179Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,589 across 12 hospitalsAZ$1,589New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,122 across 26 hospitalsKS$1,122Arkansas: median $2,784 across 11 hospitalsAR$2,784Tennessee: median $1,607 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,607North Carolina: median $2,347 across 17 hospitalsNC$2,347South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $541 across 16 hospitalsOK$541Louisiana: median $2,612 across 20 hospitalsLA$2,612Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,290 across 16 hospitalsAL$2,290Georgia: median $6,653 across 15 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,905 across 44 hospitalsTX$3,905Florida: median $4,100 across 19 hospitalsFL$4,100
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,650. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA15$6,653+303%$1,604 – $6,653
Florida FL19$4,100+148%$1,183 – $6,125
Texas TX44$3,905+137%$1,607 – $5,741
California CA59$3,796+130%$1,361 – $6,026
Arkansas AR11$2,784+69%$737 – $3,467
Louisiana LA20$2,612+58%$785 – $3,605
Colorado CO18$2,570+56%$791 – $4,181
North Carolina NC17$2,347+42%$884 – $4,951
Alabama AL16$2,290+39%$1,343 – $5,505
Massachusetts MA14$2,276+38%$1,211 – $6,716
New Jersey NJ35$2,136+29%$1,771 – $5,339
New York NY64$1,894+15%$780 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA44$1,876+14%$237 – $5,834
Ohio OH32$1,747+6%$780 – $15,346
West Virginia WV23$1,704+3%$326 – $2,024
North Dakota ND10$1,6480%$1,084 – $3,583
Tennessee TN12$1,607−3%$432 – $4,181
Arizona AZ12$1,589−4%$780 – $8,577
Wisconsin WI43$1,548−6%$1,232 – $2,761
Oregon OR26$1,473−11%$846 – $2,318
Idaho ID17$1,306−21%$669 – $3,644
Virginia VA16$1,179−29%$418 – $10,606
Missouri MO21$1,168−29%$642 – $2,730
Iowa IA43$1,168−29%$765 – $1,662
Nebraska NE19$1,141−31%$787 – $2,941
Minnesota MN44$1,125−32%$700 – $2,140
Kansas KS26$1,122−32%$572 – $2,423
Illinois IL37$1,092−34%$536 – $2,278
Indiana IN23$1,076−35%$519 – $6,376
Washington WA25$1,069−35%$776 – $3,016
Vermont VT10$738−55%$438 – $1,943
Michigan MI43$730−56%$691 – $3,267
Kentucky KY12$698−58%$491 – $1,755
Maine ME10$598−64%$371 – $794
Montana MT12$579−65%$458 – $1,402
Oklahoma OK16$541−67%$541 – $4,640
New Hampshire NH10$445−73%$287 – $727
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,650.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care681$2,066$815 – $5,392
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access292$1,065$642 – $2,140
Ownership
For-profit116$3,693$1,347 – $8,850
Government204$1,180$655 – $3,009
Non-profit669$1,648$700 – $4,490
System affiliation
Part of a system737$1,864$780 – $4,673
Independent253$1,289$615 – $2,774

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,077
Median cash price$1,650
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

498 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,300 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,612; most fall between $555 and $3,749.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 498 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$655$1,300$3,237$5,592

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($460 vs $5,592).

Of the 561 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 498 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

990 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,094 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted990
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,094

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 Exc Lesion Tendon Sheath/Capsule W/Synvct Foot.

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, “Removal of a cyst or lump from a foot tendon or joint lining (CPT 28090) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28090-removal-of-a-cyst-or-lump-from-a-foot-tendon-or-joint-lining