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Procedure price report · Arthroscopy

Diagnostic hip arthroscopy, with or without tissue sample

CPT 29860the billing code this page is about

Keyhole examination of the hip joint with a camera to look for problems, which may include taking a sample of the joint lining when done as the only procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $3,911 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 262 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,069. Most fall between $1,170 and $8,413 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
262
States
42
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 262 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
$920$1,310$3,911$7,590$10,476

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($920 vs $10,476).

How the prices are spread

$687 – $933: 14 hospitals$687$933 – $1,268: 37 hospitals$1,268 – $1,723: 30 hospitals$1,268$1,723 – $2,341: 18 hospitals$2,341 – $3,181: 6 hospitals$2,341$3,181 – $4,323: 15 hospitals$4,323 – $5,874: 40 hospitals$4,323$5,874 – $7,982: 32 hospitals$7,982 – $10,846: 32 hospitals$7,982$10,846 – $14,738: 13 hospitals$10,846median $3,911price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (237 of 262 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$687$93314
$933$1,26837
$1,268$1,72330
$1,723$2,34118
$2,341$3,1816
$3,181$4,32315
$4,323$5,87440
$5,874$7,98232
$7,982$10,84632
$10,846$14,73813

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,911
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.53×

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 $3,911.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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 $4,588 across 11 hospitalsMN$4,588Illinois: median $1,310 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,310Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $8,454 across 22 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,638 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,638Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8,376 across 13 hospitalsPA$8,376New Jersey: median $6,839 across 23 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,023 across 24 hospitalsCA$5,023Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,084 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,084Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,590 across 18 hospitalsTX$7,590Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,911. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY22$8,454+116%$5,369 – $8,613
Pennsylvania PA13$8,376+114%$5,050 – $13,461
Texas TX18$7,590+94%$2,140 – $7,590
New Jersey NJ23$6,839+75%$4,881 – $7,914
California CA24$5,023+28%$5,023 – $5,023
Minnesota MN11$4,588+17%$3,493 – $4,588
Iowa IA14$1,638−58%$1,638 – $1,638
Illinois IL14$1,310−67%$513 – $3,298
Oklahoma OK12$1,084−72%$1,084 – $1,084
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $3,911.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care210$5,023$1,186 – $8,454
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access42$3,208$1,103 – $7,590
Ownership
For-profit32$6,476$995 – $15,402
Government38$1,614$1,131 – $8,454
Non-profit192$4,588$1,228 – $7,907
System affiliation
Part of a system203$4,588$1,211 – $8,454
Independent59$2,127$1,162 – $7,171

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,761
Median cash price$3,911
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

152 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,638 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,251; most fall between $940 and $7,590.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 152 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
$567$1,084$1,638$5,023$8,429

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($567 vs $8,429).

Of the 164 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 152 gave a usable cash price; 7 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

262 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 286 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted262
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code286

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 Arthroscopy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthroscopy Hip Diagnostic W/WO Synovial Byp Spx.

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, “Diagnostic hip arthroscopy, with or without tissue sample (CPT 29860) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29860-diagnostic-hip-arthroscopy-with-or-without-tissue-sample