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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur)

Arthroscopy-assisted repair of a break across the upper shin

CPT 29856the billing code this page is about

Keyhole-assisted surgery to realign and fix a fracture involving both weight-bearing surfaces at the top of the shin bone, with or without hardware.

Hospitals typically charge $3,786 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 316 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,742. Most fall between $1,676 and $15,226 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
316
States
43
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 316 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
$1,394$1,841$3,786$14,254$17,169

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,394 vs $17,169).

How the prices are spread

$1,051 – $1,432: 20 hospitals$1,051$1,432 – $1,950: 48 hospitals$1,950 – $2,657: 56 hospitals$1,950$2,657 – $3,619: 13 hospitals$3,619 – $4,930: 27 hospitals$3,619$4,930 – $6,715: 18 hospitals$6,715 – $9,147: 14 hospitals$6,715$9,147 – $12,459: 17 hospitals$12,459 – $16,971: 55 hospitals$12,459$16,971 – $23,117: 19 hospitals$16,971median $3,786price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (287 of 316 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,051$1,43220
$1,432$1,95048
$1,950$2,65756
$2,657$3,61913
$3,619$4,93027
$4,930$6,71518
$6,715$9,14714
$9,147$12,45917
$12,459$16,97155
$16,971$23,11719

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$13,117
Median cash price$3,786
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.29×

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 $3,786.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,788 across 11 hospitalsID$6,788Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,414 across 11 hospitalsMN$5,414Illinois: median $2,398 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,398Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,312 across 23 hospitalsMI$2,312New York: median $15,226 across 25 hospitalsNY$15,226Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,436 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,436Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,713 across 11 hospitalsOH$3,713Pennsylvania: median $18,522 across 10 hospitalsPA$18,522New Jersey: median $14,062 across 30 hospitalsNJ$14,062Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $16,862 across 26 hospitalsCA$16,862Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,082 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,082Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,223 across 21 hospitalsTX$7,223Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,786. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA10$18,522+389%$9,117 – $24,246
California CA26$16,862+345%$2,334 – $16,862
New York NY25$15,226+302%$2,477 – $15,226
New Jersey NJ30$14,062+271%$4,881 – $16,611
Texas TX21$7,223+91%$6,287 – $10,629
Idaho ID11$6,788+79%$1,814 – $19,343
Minnesota MN11$5,414+43%$4,398 – $5,414
Ohio OH11$3,713−2%$2,397 – $3,713
Iowa IA14$2,436−36%$2,436 – $2,436
Illinois IL13$2,398−37%$1,439 – $6,926
Michigan MI23$2,312−39%$1,472 – $2,312
Oklahoma OK13$2,082−45%$2,082 – $7,091
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,786.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care250$4,592$1,840 – $16,026
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access57$2,312$1,439 – $6,392
Ownership
For-profit36$6,122$1,472 – $22,351
Government40$2,059$1,567 – $15,226
Non-profit240$3,986$1,841 – $15,239
System affiliation
Part of a system253$4,592$1,757 – $16,026
Independent63$2,397$1,570 – $11,489

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,083
Median cash price$3,786
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

177 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,436 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,542; most fall between $1,439 and $13,009.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 177 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
$1,051$1,472$2,436$10,629$16,862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,051 vs $16,862).

Of the 200 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 177 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

316 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 364 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted316
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code364

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrs Aid Tibial Fx Prox Unicondylar Bicondylar.

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, “Arthroscopy-assisted repair of a break across the upper shin (CPT 29856) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29856-arthroscopy-assisted-repair-of-a-break-across-the-upper-shin