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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Shoulder scope removal of the collarbone end

CPT 29824the billing code this page is about

The outer end of the collarbone is removed through small incisions using a camera in the shoulder.

Hospitals typically charge $2,910 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 988 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,160. Most fall between $1,262 and $8,160 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
988
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 988 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
$854$1,436$2,910$5,620$19,604

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($854 vs $19,604).

How the prices are spread

$632 – $925: 63 hospitals$632$925 – $1,355: 100 hospitals$1,355 – $1,984: 195 hospitals$1,355$1,984 – $2,905: 86 hospitals$2,905 – $4,254: 151 hospitals$2,905$4,254 – $6,229: 109 hospitals$6,229 – $9,120: 51 hospitals$6,229$9,120 – $13,354: 46 hospitals$13,354 – $19,554: 39 hospitals$13,354$19,554 – $28,632: 50 hospitals$19,554median $2,910price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (890 of 988 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$632$92563
$925$1,355100
$1,355$1,984195
$1,984$2,90586
$2,905$4,254151
$4,254$6,229109
$6,229$9,12051
$9,120$13,35446
$13,354$19,55439
$19,554$28,63250

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,910
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.87×

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 $2,910.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $948 across 10 hospitalsVT$948New Hampshire: median $824 across 12 hospitalsNH$824Washington: median $1,564 across 25 hospitalsWA$1,564Idaho: median $4,263 across 19 hospitalsID$4,263Montana: median $1,435 across 12 hospitalsMT$1,435North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,283 across 41 hospitalsMN$2,283Illinois: median $2,638 across 38 hospitalsIL$2,638Wisconsin: median $3,564 across 40 hospitalsWI$3,564Michigan: median $1,439 across 43 hospitalsMI$1,439New York: median $3,840 across 59 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,805 across 26 hospitalsOR$1,805Nevada: 9 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 $1,661 across 45 hospitalsIA$1,661Indiana: median $2,642 across 27 hospitalsIN$2,642Ohio: median $15,429 across 43 hospitalsOH$15,429Pennsylvania: median $1,518 across 26 hospitalsPA$1,518New Jersey: median $4,627 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 7 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 $2,013 across 61 hospitalsCA$2,013Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,466 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,466Nebraska: median $1,745 across 25 hospitalsNE$1,745Missouri: median $3,261 across 33 hospitalsMO$3,261Kentucky: median $1,511 across 13 hospitalsKY$1,511West Virginia: median $1,678 across 19 hospitalsWV$1,678Virginia: median $6,305 across 19 hospitalsVA$6,305Maryland: 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 $3,208 across 12 hospitalsAZ$3,208New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,720 across 26 hospitalsKS$1,720Arkansas: median $1,424 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,424Tennessee: median $3,194 across 17 hospitalsTN$3,194North Carolina: median $4,871 across 11 hospitalsNC$4,871South Carolina: median $4,523 across 10 hospitalsSC$4,523Oklahoma: median $1,422 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,422Louisiana: median $5,633 across 14 hospitalsLA$5,633Mississippi: median $5,904 across 13 hospitalsMS$5,904Alabama: median $2,920 across 16 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $9,445 across 14 hospitalsGA$9,445Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,240 across 41 hospitalsTX$4,240Florida: median $15,431 across 23 hospitalsFL$15,431
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,910. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL23$15,431+430%$2,335 – $31,046
Ohio OH43$15,429+430%$1,960 – $32,354
Georgia GA14$9,445+225%$2,961 – $11,629
Virginia VA19$6,305+117%$1,857 – $26,370
Mississippi MS13$5,904+103%$1,246 – $12,395
Louisiana LA14$5,633+94%$4,527 – $14,198
North Carolina NC11$4,871+67%$1,398 – $6,427
New Jersey NJ35$4,627+59%$3,591 – $9,093
South Carolina SC10$4,523+55%$3,614 – $25,655
Idaho ID19$4,263+46%$1,369 – $6,877
Texas TX41$4,240+46%$2,794 – $7,951
New York NY59$3,840+32%$1,136 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI40$3,564+22%$2,636 – $4,368
Missouri MO33$3,261+12%$1,046 – $15,869
Arizona AZ12$3,208+10%$1,060 – $21,675
Tennessee TN17$3,194+10%$881 – $8,696
Alabama AL16$2,9200%$1,889 – $15,542
Indiana IN27$2,642−9%$805 – $14,211
Illinois IL38$2,638−9%$805 – $10,079
Minnesota MN41$2,283−22%$1,357 – $2,999
California CA61$2,013−31%$1,472 – $4,788
Oregon OR26$1,805−38%$1,262 – $2,254
Nebraska NE25$1,745−40%$1,002 – $3,269
Kansas KS26$1,720−41%$1,095 – $5,022
West Virginia WV19$1,678−42%$718 – $2,715
Iowa IA45$1,661−43%$1,452 – $2,732
Washington WA25$1,564−46%$1,119 – $3,189
Pennsylvania PA26$1,518−48%$442 – $6,114
Kentucky KY13$1,511−48%$805 – $7,953
Colorado CO17$1,466−50%$1,139 – $4,869
Michigan MI43$1,439−51%$1,385 – $4,499
Montana MT12$1,435−51%$1,060 – $3,127
Arkansas AR10$1,424−51%$1,118 – $7,255
Oklahoma OK19$1,422−51%$1,422 – $12,615
Vermont VT10$948−67%$348 – $1,861
New Hampshire NH12$824−72%$566 – $1,562
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not 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 $2,910.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care673$3,703$1,436 – $12,457
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access305$1,659$1,068 – $3,564
Ownership
For-profit120$4,555$2,048 – $15,749
Government195$1,889$1,162 – $4,523
Non-profit671$2,886$1,247 – $8,280
System affiliation
Part of a system743$3,369$1,422 – $9,855
Independent245$1,975$1,146 – $4,499

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,408
Median cash price$2,910
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

429 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,781 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,293; most fall between $1,012 and $4,788.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 429 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
$730$1,150$1,781$3,987$8,004

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($730 vs $8,004).

Of the 482 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 429 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

988 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 1,086 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted988
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code1,086

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 Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Surgical Arthroscopy Shoulder Dstl Claviculc.

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 collarbone end (CPT 29824) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29824-shoulder-scope-removal-of-the-collarbone-end