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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Knee arthroscopy with limited removal of joint lining

CPT 29875the billing code this page is about

Keyhole knee surgery removing inflamed joint lining from one area of the knee, billed when it is the only procedure performed.

Hospitals typically charge $2,615 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 880 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,062. Most fall between $1,031 and $6,615 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
880
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 880 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
$734$1,202$2,615$5,904$10,018

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($734 vs $10,018).

How the prices are spread

$436 – $617: 26 hospitals$436$617 – $874: 62 hospitals$874 – $1,237: 109 hospitals$874$1,237 – $1,752: 88 hospitals$1,752 – $2,481: 89 hospitals$1,752$2,481 – $3,514: 82 hospitals$3,514 – $4,977: 115 hospitals$3,514$4,977 – $7,048: 107 hospitals$7,048 – $9,982: 54 hospitals$7,048$9,982 – $14,136: 61 hospitals$9,982median $2,615price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (793 of 880 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$436$61726
$617$87462
$874$1,237109
$1,237$1,75288
$1,752$2,48189
$2,481$3,51482
$3,514$4,977115
$4,977$7,048107
$7,048$9,98254
$9,982$14,13661

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,615
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.78×

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 $2,615.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,046 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,046New Hampshire: median $780 across 11 hospitalsNH$780Washington: median $1,764 across 24 hospitalsWA$1,764Idaho: median $5,071 across 17 hospitalsID$5,071Montana: median $1,529 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,529North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,544 across 35 hospitalsMN$2,544Illinois: median $1,380 across 34 hospitalsIL$1,380Wisconsin: median $2,615 across 38 hospitalsWI$2,615Michigan: median $1,800 across 40 hospitalsMI$1,800New York: median $3,840 across 57 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,296 across 24 hospitalsOR$1,296Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $1,220 across 36 hospitalsIA$1,220Indiana: median $1,258 across 19 hospitalsIN$1,258Ohio: median $3,553 across 33 hospitalsOH$3,553Pennsylvania: median $1,902 across 28 hospitalsPA$1,902New Jersey: median $4,330 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,148 across 56 hospitalsCA$5,148Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,040 across 14 hospitalsCO$1,040Nebraska: median $1,749 across 22 hospitalsNE$1,749Missouri: median $5,222 across 31 hospitalsMO$5,222Kentucky: median $1,258 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,258West Virginia: median $3,578 across 20 hospitalsWV$3,578Virginia: median $5,906 across 15 hospitalsVA$5,906Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,208 across 10 hospitalsAZ$3,208New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,549 across 23 hospitalsKS$1,549Arkansas: median $2,667 across 14 hospitalsAR$2,667Tennessee: median $4,091 across 15 hospitalsTN$4,091North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,043 across 20 hospitalsOK$1,043Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,170 across 16 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $8,718 across 14 hospitalsGA$8,718Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,817 across 42 hospitalsTX$3,817Florida: median $8,090 across 12 hospitalsFL$8,090
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,615. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA14$8,718+233%$5,318 – $11,925
Florida FL12$8,090+209%$1,845 – $9,375
Virginia VA15$5,906+126%$2,059 – $8,921
Missouri MO31$5,222+100%$778 – $9,026
California CA56$5,148+97%$1,693 – $10,018
Idaho ID17$5,071+94%$1,007 – $6,977
New Jersey NJ34$4,330+66%$3,591 – $5,419
Tennessee TN15$4,091+56%$647 – $6,022
New York NY57$3,840+47%$843 – $4,595
Texas TX42$3,817+46%$2,653 – $6,536
West Virginia WV20$3,578+37%$532 – $4,448
Ohio OH33$3,553+36%$1,225 – $18,199
Arizona AZ10$3,208+23%$492 – $7,743
Alabama AL16$3,170+21%$1,395 – $9,964
Arkansas AR14$2,667+2%$1,516 – $3,343
Wisconsin WI38$2,6150%$2,474 – $5,864
Minnesota MN35$2,544−3%$1,498 – $3,341
Pennsylvania PA28$1,902−27%$325 – $5,873
Michigan MI40$1,800−31%$1,019 – $3,244
Washington WA24$1,764−33%$993 – $4,800
Nebraska NE22$1,749−33%$988 – $3,080
Kansas KS23$1,549−41%$866 – $4,388
Montana MT11$1,529−42%$734 – $2,578
Illinois IL34$1,380−47%$808 – $14,644
Oregon OR24$1,296−50%$826 – $2,410
Indiana IN19$1,258−52%$881 – $10,513
Kentucky KY10$1,258−52%$576 – $3,788
Iowa IA36$1,220−53%$1,048 – $1,615
Vermont VT10$1,046−60%$416 – $1,887
Oklahoma OK20$1,043−60%$1,043 – $7,551
Colorado CO14$1,040−60%$772 – $7,380
New Hampshire NH11$780−70%$406 – $1,420
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,615.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care592$3,817$1,220 – $8,372
Children’s23$2,261$1,022 – $8,417
Critical access264$1,490$849 – $3,341
Ownership
For-profit108$6,022$2,578 – $11,627
Government164$1,725$918 – $5,146
Non-profit607$2,615$1,009 – $6,167
System affiliation
Part of a system648$3,270$1,111 – $7,551
Independent232$1,840$905 – $5,071

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,601
Median cash price$2,615
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

399 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,762 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,276; most fall between $843 and $5,577.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 399 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
$597$944$1,762$5,030$8,718

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($597 vs $8,718).

Of the 452 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 399 gave a usable cash price; 20 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

880 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 982 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted880
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code982

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthroscopy Knee Synovectomy Limited 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, “Knee arthroscopy with limited removal of joint lining (CPT 29875) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29875-knee-arthroscopy-with-limited-removal-of-joint-lining