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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Shoulder scope cleanout of damaged tissue, extensive

CPT 29823the billing code this page is about

Trimming and removal of damaged tissue in three or more areas of the shoulder joint through small incisions using a camera.

Hospitals typically charge $3,120 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 996 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,434. Most fall between $1,232 and $8,526 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
996
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 996 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
$875$1,407$3,120$6,637$19,318

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($875 vs $19,318).

How the prices are spread

$574 – $847: 49 hospitals$574$847 – $1,250: 117 hospitals$1,250 – $1,846: 132 hospitals$1,250$1,846 – $2,724: 105 hospitals$2,724 – $4,021: 139 hospitals$2,724$4,021 – $5,934: 135 hospitals$5,934 – $8,759: 82 hospitals$5,934$8,759 – $12,927: 49 hospitals$12,927 – $19,080: 37 hospitals$12,927$19,080 – $28,162: 54 hospitals$19,080median $3,120price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (899 of 996 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$574$84749
$847$1,250117
$1,250$1,846132
$1,846$2,724105
$2,724$4,021139
$4,021$5,934135
$5,934$8,75982
$8,759$12,92749
$12,927$19,08037
$19,080$28,16254

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,120
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.93×

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 $3,120.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,036 across 10 hospitalsME$1,036Vermont: median $878 across 10 hospitalsVT$878New Hampshire: median $990 across 12 hospitalsNH$990Washington: median $1,540 across 25 hospitalsWA$1,540Idaho: median $5,025 across 19 hospitalsID$5,025Montana: median $1,182 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,182North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,464 across 39 hospitalsMN$2,464Illinois: median $1,899 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,899Wisconsin: median $3,120 across 40 hospitalsWI$3,120Michigan: median $1,976 across 42 hospitalsMI$1,976New York: median $3,840 across 63 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $3,876 across 12 hospitalsMA$3,876Oregon: median $1,716 across 25 hospitalsOR$1,716Nevada: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,543 across 44 hospitalsIA$1,543Indiana: median $2,103 across 30 hospitalsIN$2,103Ohio: median $18,716 across 41 hospitalsOH$18,716Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 30 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,350 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 6 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 $5,148 across 62 hospitalsCA$5,148Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,343 across 15 hospitalsCO$1,343Nebraska: median $1,949 across 25 hospitalsNE$1,949Missouri: median $3,261 across 34 hospitalsMO$3,261Kentucky: median $1,391 across 16 hospitalsKY$1,391West Virginia: median $2,145 across 21 hospitalsWV$2,145Virginia: median $6,281 across 17 hospitalsVA$6,281Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,015 across 13 hospitalsAZ$4,015New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,325 across 26 hospitalsKS$1,325Arkansas: median $1,494 across 13 hospitalsAR$1,494Tennessee: median $4,091 across 17 hospitalsTN$4,091North Carolina: median $4,221 across 10 hospitalsNC$4,221South Carolina: median $4,062 across 10 hospitalsSC$4,062Oklahoma: median $1,246 across 17 hospitalsOK$1,246Louisiana: median $5,303 across 17 hospitalsLA$5,303Mississippi: median $5,865 across 11 hospitalsMS$5,865Alabama: median $3,170 across 17 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $8,718 across 14 hospitalsGA$8,718Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,154 across 42 hospitalsTX$4,154Florida: median $14,331 across 21 hospitalsFL$14,331
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,120. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH41$18,716+500%$2,211 – $29,941
Florida FL21$14,331+359%$3,168 – $31,046
Georgia GA14$8,718+179%$3,265 – $11,629
Virginia VA17$6,281+101%$1,857 – $21,786
Mississippi MS11$5,865+88%$1,307 – $13,605
Louisiana LA17$5,303+70%$3,545 – $10,703
California CA62$5,148+65%$1,870 – $7,134
Idaho ID19$5,025+61%$1,200 – $6,877
New Jersey NJ34$4,350+39%$3,591 – $6,839
North Carolina NC10$4,221+35%$1,156 – $5,913
Texas TX42$4,154+33%$2,844 – $11,566
Tennessee TN17$4,091+31%$820 – $8,717
South Carolina SC10$4,062+30%$3,614 – $27,106
Arizona AZ13$4,015+29%$927 – $18,554
Massachusetts MA12$3,876+24%$2,728 – $17,926
New York NY63$3,840+23%$1,210 – $4,595
Missouri MO34$3,261+5%$1,046 – $14,196
Alabama AL17$3,170+2%$2,249 – $15,838
Pennsylvania PA30$3,139+1%$387 – $5,873
Wisconsin WI40$3,1200%$2,905 – $4,790
Minnesota MN39$2,464−21%$1,285 – $4,264
West Virginia WV21$2,145−31%$652 – $5,096
Indiana IN30$2,103−33%$1,034 – $23,770
Michigan MI42$1,976−37%$1,326 – $4,499
Nebraska NE25$1,949−38%$929 – $3,655
Illinois IL36$1,899−39%$1,086 – $13,361
Oregon OR25$1,716−45%$1,104 – $1,974
Iowa IA44$1,543−51%$1,342 – $2,821
Washington WA25$1,540−51%$1,104 – $3,036
Arkansas AR13$1,494−52%$819 – $1,797
Kentucky KY16$1,391−55%$883 – $5,409
Colorado CO15$1,343−57%$838 – $1,596
Kansas KS26$1,325−58%$670 – $5,576
Oklahoma OK17$1,246−60%$1,246 – $10,352
Montana MT11$1,182−62%$875 – $3,402
Maine ME10$1,036−67%$483 – $1,733
New Hampshire NH12$990−68%$527 – $2,250
Vermont VT10$878−72%$424 – $2,441
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $3,120.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care689$4,062$1,527 – $12,001
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access297$1,629$1,036 – $4,044
Ownership
For-profit123$4,792$2,513 – $16,169
Government188$1,816$1,135 – $4,740
Non-profit684$3,120$1,124 – $7,390
System affiliation
Part of a system749$3,591$1,292 – $10,353
Independent247$1,976$1,057 – $5,187

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,962
Median cash price$3,120
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

433 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,081 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,463; most fall between $1,023 and $5,148.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 433 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
$638$1,086$2,081$4,269$7,134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($638 vs $7,134).

Of the 485 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 433 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

996 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 1,102 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted996
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,102

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 Xtnsv Dbrdmt 3+.

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 cleanout of damaged tissue, extensive (CPT 29823) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29823-shoulder-scope-cleanout-of-damaged-tissue-extensive