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Procedure price report · Division of joint capsule, ligament or cartilage

Shoulder scope release of scar tissue in the joint

CPT 29825the billing code this page is about

Scar tissue and adhesions inside the shoulder are cut and removed through small incisions with a camera, with or without moving the joint under anesthesia.

Hospitals typically charge $2,930 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 693 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,107. Most fall between $1,175 and $7,244 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
693
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 693 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
$802$1,389$2,930$5,483$10,975

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($802 vs $10,975).

How the prices are spread

$480 – $687: 25 hospitals$480$687 – $984: 43 hospitals$984 – $1,409: 76 hospitals$984$1,409 – $2,017: 107 hospitals$2,017 – $2,889: 60 hospitals$2,017$2,889 – $4,138: 102 hospitals$4,138 – $5,926: 84 hospitals$4,138$5,926 – $8,488: 61 hospitals$8,488 – $12,156: 36 hospitals$8,488$12,156 – $17,409: 31 hospitals$12,156median $2,930price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (625 of 693 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$480$68725
$687$98443
$984$1,40976
$1,409$2,017107
$2,017$2,88960
$2,889$4,138102
$4,138$5,92684
$5,926$8,48861
$8,488$12,15636
$12,156$17,40931

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,930
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $2,930.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,539 across 16 hospitalsWA$1,539Idaho: median $5,755 across 16 hospitalsID$5,755Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,972 across 25 hospitalsMN$2,972Illinois: median $1,523 across 28 hospitalsIL$1,523Wisconsin: median $3,093 across 34 hospitalsWI$3,093Michigan: median $2,622 across 36 hospitalsMI$2,622New York: median $3,840 across 53 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,563 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,563Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $1,442 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,442Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,025 across 23 hospitalsOH$2,025Pennsylvania: median $2,010 across 26 hospitalsPA$2,010New Jersey: median $4,350 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,094 across 50 hospitalsCA$2,094Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,851 across 18 hospitalsNE$1,851Missouri: median $3,261 across 19 hospitalsMO$3,261Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,134 across 15 hospitalsWV$3,134Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital 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 11 hospitalsAZ$4,015New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,142 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,142Arkansas: median $2,068 across 10 hospitalsAR$2,068Tennessee: median $1,881 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,881North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,233 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,233Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,170 across 11 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $8,718 across 11 hospitalsGA$8,718Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,816 across 34 hospitalsTX$4,816Florida: median $9,124 across 12 hospitalsFL$9,124
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,930. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL12$9,124+211%$2,025 – $13,999
Georgia GA11$8,718+198%$8,718 – $11,629
Idaho ID16$5,755+96%$1,435 – $8,372
Texas TX34$4,816+64%$2,653 – $5,475
New Jersey NJ34$4,350+48%$3,594 – $5,741
Arizona AZ11$4,015+37%$990 – $17,842
New York NY53$3,840+31%$1,406 – $4,595
Missouri MO19$3,261+11%$938 – $15,295
Alabama AL11$3,170+8%$1,635 – $17,989
West Virginia WV15$3,134+7%$1,455 – $3,239
Wisconsin WI34$3,093+6%$3,093 – $7,389
Minnesota MN25$2,972+1%$1,371 – $3,487
Michigan MI36$2,622−11%$1,141 – $3,245
California CA50$2,094−29%$1,472 – $7,823
Arkansas AR10$2,068−29%$971 – $2,416
Ohio OH23$2,025−31%$1,199 – $17,208
Pennsylvania PA26$2,010−31%$383 – $6,114
Tennessee TN12$1,881−36%$765 – $7,158
Nebraska NE18$1,851−37%$867 – $3,825
Oregon OR19$1,563−47%$1,095 – $1,954
Washington WA16$1,539−47%$1,152 – $7,261
Illinois IL28$1,523−48%$450 – $8,736
Iowa IA25$1,442−51%$1,442 – $1,700
Oklahoma OK15$1,233−58%$1,233 – $7,091
Kansas KS14$1,142−61%$535 – $4,387
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,930.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care497$3,591$1,387 – $7,931
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access187$1,747$948 – $3,487
Ownership
For-profit84$5,317$1,787 – $14,430
Government121$1,787$1,135 – $4,523
Non-profit488$2,823$1,095 – $6,337
System affiliation
Part of a system521$3,211$1,233 – $7,823
Independent172$1,910$1,075 – $4,618

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,143
Median cash price$2,930
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

329 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,787 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,442; most fall between $1,039 and $5,866.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 329 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
$660$1,141$1,787$4,816$7,878

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($660 vs $7,878).

Of the 365 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 329 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

693 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 768 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted693
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code768

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 Division of joint capsule, ligament or cartilage family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Surgical Arthroscopy Shoulder W/Lss&Rescj Ads.

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 release of scar tissue in the joint (CPT 29825) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29825-shoulder-scope-release-of-scar-tissue-in-the-joint