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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Shoulder arthroscopy with rotator cuff repair

CPT 29827the billing code this page is about

Keyhole surgery of the shoulder in which a torn rotator cuff tendon is reattached to the bone.

Hospitals typically charge $4,881 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,056 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,394. Most fall between $1,969 and $12,919 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,056
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 1,056 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
$1,512$2,243$4,881$9,823$23,957

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,512 vs $23,957).

How the prices are spread

$944 – $1,348: 37 hospitals$944$1,348 – $1,926: 106 hospitals$1,926 – $2,752: 158 hospitals$1,926$2,752 – $3,932: 112 hospitals$3,932 – $5,618: 130 hospitals$3,932$5,618 – $8,026: 123 hospitals$8,026 – $11,467: 101 hospitals$8,026$11,467 – $16,383: 86 hospitals$16,383 – $23,406: 41 hospitals$16,383$23,406 – $33,440: 58 hospitals$23,406median $4,881price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (952 of 1,056 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$944$1,34837
$1,348$1,926106
$1,926$2,752158
$2,752$3,932112
$3,932$5,618130
$5,618$8,026123
$8,026$11,467101
$11,467$16,38386
$16,383$23,40641
$23,406$33,44058

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$4,881
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $4,881.

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 $1,490 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,490New Hampshire: median $1,698 across 12 hospitalsNH$1,698Washington: median $2,453 across 28 hospitalsWA$2,453Idaho: median $6,558 across 18 hospitalsID$6,558Montana: median $2,972 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,972North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,223 across 39 hospitalsMN$4,223Illinois: median $3,775 across 39 hospitalsIL$3,775Wisconsin: median $5,593 across 42 hospitalsWI$5,593Michigan: median $2,353 across 44 hospitalsMI$2,353New York: median $8,454 across 64 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: median $5,537 across 12 hospitalsMA$5,537Oregon: median $2,954 across 30 hospitalsOR$2,954Nevada: median $4,507 across 11 hospitalsNV$4,507Wyoming: 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 $2,636 across 49 hospitalsIA$2,636Indiana: median $3,639 across 30 hospitalsIN$3,639Ohio: median $21,660 across 46 hospitalsOH$21,660Pennsylvania: median $6,018 across 34 hospitalsPA$6,018New Jersey: median $7,807 across 34 hospitalsNJ$7,807Connecticut: 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 $6,300 across 65 hospitalsCA$6,300Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,490 across 16 hospitalsCO$2,490Nebraska: median $2,589 across 26 hospitalsNE$2,589Missouri: median $7,232 across 32 hospitalsMO$7,232Kentucky: median $2,064 across 16 hospitalsKY$2,064West Virginia: median $3,418 across 21 hospitalsWV$3,418Virginia: median $9,027 across 19 hospitalsVA$9,027Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $7,090 across 13 hospitalsAZ$7,090New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,024 across 24 hospitalsKS$3,024Arkansas: median $2,015 across 15 hospitalsAR$2,015Tennessee: median $4,240 across 18 hospitalsTN$4,240North Carolina: median $6,820 across 13 hospitalsNC$6,820South Carolina: median $4,613 across 10 hospitalsSC$4,613Oklahoma: median $2,243 across 20 hospitalsOK$2,243Louisiana: median $10,472 across 19 hospitalsLA$10,472Mississippi: median $7,027 across 14 hospitalsMS$7,027Alabama: median $5,111 across 16 hospitalsAL$5,111Georgia: median $11,309 across 15 hospitalsGA$11,309Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,881 across 42 hospitalsTX$4,881Florida: median $22,888 across 21 hospitalsFL$22,888
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,881. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL21$22,888+369%$7,171 – $54,655
Ohio OH46$21,660+344%$3,978 – $35,973
Georgia GA15$11,309+132%$7,242 – $20,288
Louisiana LA19$10,472+115%$6,544 – $14,129
Virginia VA19$9,027+85%$4,060 – $29,762
New York NY64$8,454+73%$1,831 – $13,784
New Jersey NJ34$7,807+60%$4,350 – $9,093
Missouri MO32$7,232+48%$1,717 – $16,854
Arizona AZ13$7,090+45%$1,673 – $21,198
Mississippi MS14$7,027+44%$1,512 – $14,610
North Carolina NC13$6,820+40%$2,168 – $11,563
Idaho ID18$6,558+34%$2,626 – $12,106
California CA65$6,300+29%$3,077 – $9,745
Pennsylvania PA34$6,018+23%$723 – $14,613
Wisconsin WI42$5,593+15%$4,288 – $7,084
Massachusetts MA12$5,537+13%$4,133 – $31,706
Alabama AL16$5,111+5%$2,998 – $18,658
Texas TX42$4,8810%$4,205 – $16,246
South Carolina SC10$4,613−5%$3,614 – $32,139
Nevada NV11$4,507−8%$2,013 – $7,892
Tennessee TN18$4,240−13%$1,418 – $12,919
Minnesota MN39$4,223−13%$2,195 – $5,596
Illinois IL39$3,775−23%$1,698 – $15,432
Indiana IN30$3,639−25%$1,698 – $28,566
West Virginia WV21$3,418−30%$1,455 – $6,498
Kansas KS24$3,024−38%$884 – $9,823
Montana MT11$2,972−39%$1,574 – $4,918
Oregon OR30$2,954−39%$1,973 – $3,533
Iowa IA49$2,636−46%$2,250 – $3,309
Nebraska NE26$2,589−47%$1,126 – $4,110
Colorado CO16$2,490−49%$1,804 – $10,281
Washington WA28$2,453−50%$2,000 – $5,642
Michigan MI44$2,353−52%$1,969 – $9,978
Oklahoma OK20$2,243−54%$2,243 – $13,811
Kentucky KY16$2,064−58%$1,600 – $6,467
Arkansas AR15$2,015−59%$1,421 – $2,864
New Hampshire NH12$1,698−65%$983 – $3,332
Vermont VT10$1,490−69%$543 – $2,699
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $4,881.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care726$6,300$2,231 – $15,234
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access321$2,732$1,729 – $5,593
Ownership
For-profit133$8,752$3,309 – $20,288
Government207$2,998$1,829 – $8,454
Non-profit715$5,167$1,969 – $12,679
System affiliation
Part of a system790$5,537$1,973 – $13,811
Independent266$3,297$1,849 – $7,861

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,985
Median cash price$4,881
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

453 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,016 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,671; most fall between $1,698 and $7,360.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 453 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
$1,063$1,820$3,016$6,300$12,077

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,063 vs $12,077).

Of the 512 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 453 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,056 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,167 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,056
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code1,167

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 Surgical Arthroscopy Shoulder W/Rotator Cuff Rpr.

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 arthroscopy with rotator cuff repair (CPT 29827) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29827-shoulder-arthroscopy-with-rotator-cuff-repair