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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Shoulder scope removal of the entire joint lining

CPT 29821the billing code this page is about

Complete removal of inflamed lining tissue from the shoulder joint through small incisions using a camera.

Hospitals typically charge $2,291 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 393 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,782. Most fall between $1,057 and $6,122 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
393
States
43
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 393 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
$773$1,201$2,291$4,527$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($773 vs $8,372).

How the prices are spread

$497 – $674: 14 hospitals$497$674 – $914: 19 hospitals$914 – $1,240: 50 hospitals$914$1,240 – $1,682: 44 hospitals$1,682 – $2,281: 50 hospitals$1,682$2,281 – $3,094: 26 hospitals$3,094 – $4,197: 50 hospitals$3,094$4,197 – $5,694: 37 hospitals$5,694 – $7,723: 24 hospitals$5,694$7,723 – $10,476: 41 hospitals$7,723median $2,291price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (355 of 393 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$497$67414
$674$91419
$914$1,24050
$1,240$1,68244
$1,682$2,28150
$2,281$3,09426
$3,094$4,19750
$4,197$5,69437
$5,694$7,72324
$7,723$10,47641

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,291
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.69×

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 $2,291.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $3,063 across 17 hospitalsMN$3,063Illinois: median $1,098 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,098Wisconsin: median $2,953 across 16 hospitalsWI$2,953Michigan: median $2,015 across 25 hospitalsMI$2,015New York: median $3,343 across 34 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,108 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,108Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,458 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,458Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,051 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,051Pennsylvania: median $914 across 20 hospitalsPA$914New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,232 across 29 hospitalsCA$8,232Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $979 across 13 hospitalsOK$979Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,399 across 24 hospitalsTX$4,399Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,291. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA29$8,232+259%$1,449 – $8,232
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+102%$3,591 – $8,289
Texas TX24$4,399+92%$2,653 – $4,399
New York NY34$3,343+46%$890 – $3,884
Minnesota MN17$3,063+34%$1,108 – $4,020
Wisconsin WI16$2,953+29%$2,953 – $7,651
Ohio OH13$2,051−10%$1,191 – $2,702
Michigan MI25$2,015−12%$1,249 – $2,015
Iowa IA18$1,458−36%$1,271 – $1,458
Oregon OR14$1,108−52%$1,108 – $1,977
Illinois IL15$1,098−52%$455 – $6,328
Oklahoma OK13$979−57%$979 – $6,615
Pennsylvania PA20$914−60%$371 – $5,038
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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 $2,291.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care299$3,091$1,098 – $6,637
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access85$1,875$1,017 – $4,020
Ownership
For-profit44$4,720$1,010 – $13,166
Government65$1,760$1,068 – $3,840
Non-profit284$2,291$1,037 – $5,855
System affiliation
Part of a system303$2,953$1,108 – $7,091
Independent90$1,775$1,010 – $3,831

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,615
Median cash price$2,291
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

199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,856 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,452; most fall between $979 and $6,412.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 199 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
$773$1,098$1,856$4,843$8,232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($773 vs $8,232).

Of the 219 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 199 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

393 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 442 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted393
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code442

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 joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Surgical Arthroscopy Shoulder Compl Synovectomy.

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, “Shoulder scope removal of the entire joint lining (CPT 29821) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29821-shoulder-scope-removal-of-the-entire-joint-lining