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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Wrist arthroscopy with complete removal of joint lining

CPT 29845the billing code this page is about

Keyhole wrist surgery in which the entire inflamed lining of the joint is removed.

Hospitals typically charge $2,869 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 332 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,920. Most fall between $1,061 and $5,888 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
332
States
43
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 332 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
$839$1,294$2,869$4,501$7,310

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($839 vs $7,310).

How the prices are spread

$485 – $656: 11 hospitals$485$656 – $889: 13 hospitals$889 – $1,205: 41 hospitals$889$1,205 – $1,633: 37 hospitals$1,633 – $2,212: 32 hospitals$1,633$2,212 – $2,998: 20 hospitals$2,998 – $4,062: 62 hospitals$2,998$4,062 – $5,503: 31 hospitals$5,503 – $7,456: 38 hospitals$5,503$7,456 – $10,103: 16 hospitals$7,456median $2,869price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (301 of 332 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$485$65611
$656$88913
$889$1,20541
$1,205$1,63337
$1,633$2,21232
$2,212$2,99820
$2,998$4,06262
$4,062$5,50331
$5,503$7,45638
$7,456$10,10316

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,869
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.86×

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 $2,869.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,072 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,072Wisconsin: median $2,744 across 10 hospitalsWI$2,744Michigan: median $1,617 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,617New York: median $3,840 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,097 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,097Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,438 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,438Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,999 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,999Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,130 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,130Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,171 across 27 hospitalsCA$6,171Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 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: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $970 across 13 hospitalsOK$970Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,023 across 19 hospitalsTX$4,023Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,869. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$6,171+115%$3,845 – $6,171
New Jersey NJ29$4,130+44%$3,591 – $5,419
Texas TX19$4,023+40%$1,929 – $4,023
New York NY26$3,840+34%$1,740 – $3,884
Wisconsin WI10$2,744−4%$2,744 – $2,963
Pennsylvania PA20$2,382−17%$367 – $5,486
Ohio OH12$1,999−30%$1,421 – $2,669
Michigan MI26$1,617−44%$1,125 – $1,673
Iowa IA15$1,438−50%$1,438 – $1,438
Oregon OR10$1,097−62%$1,097 – $1,958
Illinois IL12$1,072−63%$446 – $10,068
Oklahoma OK13$970−66%$970 – $4,535
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,869.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care274$3,591$1,097 – $6,171
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$1,689$950 – $4,023
Ownership
For-profit38$3,845$1,294 – $8,372
Government47$1,699$987 – $4,015
Non-profit247$2,869$1,097 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system261$3,546$1,097 – $6,171
Independent71$1,801$970 – $4,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,076
Median cash price$2,869
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

172 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,054 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,992; most fall between $970 and $6,171.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 172 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
$839$1,065$2,054$4,720$6,637

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($839 vs $6,637).

Of the 186 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 172 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

332 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 355 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted332
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code355

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Arthroscopy Wrist Surgical Synovectomy Complete.

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, “Wrist arthroscopy with complete removal of joint lining (CPT 29845) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29845-wrist-arthroscopy-with-complete-removal-of-joint-lining