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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Hip arthroscopy to remove a loose fragment or foreign body

CPT 29861the billing code this page is about

Keyhole surgery on the hip joint to take out a loose piece of bone or cartilage, or an object that does not belong in the joint.

Hospitals typically charge $3,240 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 345 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,297. Most fall between $1,255 and $8,770 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
345
States
41
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 345 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
$746$1,435$3,240$8,454$12,106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($746 vs $12,106).

How the prices are spread

$637 – $912: 22 hospitals$637$912 – $1,307: 40 hospitals$1,307 – $1,874: 41 hospitals$1,307$1,874 – $2,685: 42 hospitals$2,685 – $3,848: 28 hospitals$2,685$3,848 – $5,514: 34 hospitals$5,514 – $7,902: 18 hospitals$5,514$7,902 – $11,325: 66 hospitals$11,325 – $16,229: 13 hospitals$11,325$16,229 – $23,258: 8 hospitals$16,229median $3,240price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (312 of 345 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$637$91222
$912$1,30740
$1,307$1,87441
$1,874$2,68542
$2,685$3,84828
$3,848$5,51434
$5,514$7,90218
$7,902$11,32566
$11,325$16,22913
$16,229$23,2588

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,240
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.44×

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 $3,240.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 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: median $4,431 across 12 hospitalsMN$4,431Illinois: median $1,675 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,675Wisconsin: median $2,544 across 11 hospitalsWI$2,544Michigan: median $1,100 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,100New York: median $8,454 across 27 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,292 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,292Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $1,776 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,776Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,626 across 10 hospitalsOH$2,626Pennsylvania: median $5,050 across 19 hospitalsPA$5,050New Jersey: median $6,839 across 25 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,240 across 41 hospitalsCA$3,240Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital 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: 2 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 6 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 $1,180 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,180Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,352 across 21 hospitalsTX$5,352Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,240. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY27$8,454+161%$1,523 – $8,454
New Jersey NJ25$6,839+111%$4,881 – $7,914
Texas TX21$5,352+65%$2,653 – $5,352
Pennsylvania PA19$5,050+56%$434 – $12,077
Minnesota MN12$4,431+37%$3,373 – $4,431
California CA41$3,2400%$3,240 – $8,770
Ohio OH10$2,626−19%$1,317 – $7,861
Wisconsin WI11$2,544−21%$2,544 – $2,552
Iowa IA14$1,776−45%$1,776 – $1,776
Illinois IL15$1,675−48%$555 – $3,794
Oregon OR10$1,292−60%$1,292 – $2,360
Oklahoma OK13$1,180−64%$1,180 – $7,091
Michigan MI24$1,100−66%$708 – $9,978
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $3,240.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care283$3,519$1,255 – $8,770
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$2,360$1,204 – $5,352
Ownership
For-profit40$5,352$1,255 – $15,234
Government48$2,148$1,295 – $8,454
Non-profit256$3,240$1,207 – $8,770
System affiliation
Part of a system275$3,290$1,207 – $8,770
Independent70$2,332$1,292 – $6,943

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,069
Median cash price$3,240
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

178 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,094 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,137; most fall between $1,290 and $8,225.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 178 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
$951$1,299$2,094$6,122$8,770

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($951 vs $8,770).

Of the 193 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 178 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 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

345 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 376 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted345
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code376

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 Hip Surgical W/Removal Loose/FB.

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, “Hip arthroscopy to remove a loose fragment or foreign body (CPT 29861) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29861-hip-arthroscopy-to-remove-a-loose-fragment-or-foreign-body