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Procedure price report · Excision of semilunar cartilage of knee

Knee arthroscopy with meniscus repair, both inner and outer

CPT 29883the billing code this page is about

Keyhole knee surgery stitching torn meniscus cushions on both the inner and outer sides of the knee.

Hospitals typically charge $3,487 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 708 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,572. Most fall between $1,542 and $7,706 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
708
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 708 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
$1,184$1,770$3,487$5,649$18,235

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,184 vs $18,235).

How the prices are spread

$873 – $1,251: 41 hospitals$873$1,251 – $1,791: 104 hospitals$1,791 – $2,565: 101 hospitals$1,791$2,565 – $3,674: 98 hospitals$3,674 – $5,261: 137 hospitals$3,674$5,261 – $7,535: 49 hospitals$7,535 – $10,791: 42 hospitals$7,535$10,791 – $15,455: 20 hospitals$15,455 – $22,134: 24 hospitals$15,455$22,134 – $31,698: 22 hospitals$22,134median $3,487price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (638 of 708 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$873$1,25141
$1,251$1,791104
$1,791$2,565101
$2,565$3,67498
$3,674$5,261137
$5,261$7,53549
$7,535$10,79142
$10,791$15,45520
$15,455$22,13424
$22,134$31,69822

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,487
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $3,487.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,917 across 18 hospitalsWA$2,917Idaho: median $4,572 across 16 hospitalsID$4,572Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,301 across 25 hospitalsMN$4,301Illinois: median $2,677 across 27 hospitalsIL$2,677Wisconsin: median $4,402 across 36 hospitalsWI$4,402Michigan: median $2,348 across 38 hospitalsMI$2,348New York: median $3,840 across 52 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,129 across 22 hospitalsOR$2,129Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $2,069 across 27 hospitalsIA$2,069Indiana: median $1,542 across 17 hospitalsIN$1,542Ohio: median $3,060 across 21 hospitalsOH$3,060Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 22 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,627 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 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 $3,487 across 53 hospitalsCA$3,487Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,025 across 11 hospitalsCO$2,025Nebraska: median $3,019 across 15 hospitalsNE$3,019Missouri: median $5,600 across 18 hospitalsMO$5,600Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,931 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,931Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,519 across 14 hospitalsKS$3,519Arkansas: median $3,562 across 11 hospitalsAR$3,562Tennessee: median $2,052 across 10 hospitalsTN$2,052North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $6,261 across 11 hospitalsSC$6,261Oklahoma: median $1,770 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,770Louisiana: median $2,974 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,974Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,170 across 12 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $8,718 across 11 hospitalsGA$8,718Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,189 across 34 hospitalsTX$5,189Florida: median $3,257 across 13 hospitalsFL$3,257
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,487. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$8,718+150%$4,480 – $8,718
South Carolina SC11$6,261+80%$4,852 – $36,354
Missouri MO18$5,600+61%$1,431 – $24,427
Texas TX34$5,189+49%$2,794 – $10,007
New Jersey NJ32$4,627+33%$3,591 – $9,762
Idaho ID16$4,572+31%$1,546 – $8,372
Wisconsin WI36$4,402+26%$3,659 – $5,484
Minnesota MN25$4,301+23%$2,285 – $5,649
New York NY52$3,840+10%$1,372 – $4,595
Arkansas AR11$3,562+2%$2,265 – $6,618
Kansas KS14$3,519+1%$675 – $15,705
California CA53$3,4870%$1,472 – $5,130
Florida FL13$3,257−7%$2,375 – $24,445
Alabama AL12$3,170−9%$2,383 – $26,794
Pennsylvania PA22$3,139−10%$546 – $6,134
Ohio OH21$3,060−12%$2,070 – $17,521
Nebraska NE15$3,019−13%$2,053 – $3,847
Louisiana LA11$2,974−15%$1,516 – $10,258
Washington WA18$2,917−16%$1,717 – $6,915
Illinois IL27$2,677−23%$1,542 – $27,034
Michigan MI38$2,348−33%$1,791 – $4,499
Oregon OR22$2,129−39%$1,557 – $2,794
Iowa IA27$2,069−41%$1,958 – $2,419
Tennessee TN10$2,052−41%$1,102 – $10,770
Colorado CO11$2,025−42%$1,428 – $5,365
West Virginia WV17$1,931−45%$892 – $4,726
Oklahoma OK15$1,770−49%$1,770 – $6,615
Indiana IN17$1,542−56%$960 – $7,953
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $3,487.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care515$3,840$1,744 – $9,439
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access172$2,348$1,412 – $4,814
Ownership
For-profit77$5,317$2,681 – $20,359
Government123$2,383$1,428 – $6,273
Non-profit506$3,540$1,542 – $6,311
System affiliation
Part of a system535$3,804$1,557 – $8,718
Independent173$2,522$1,391 – $5,484

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,696
Median cash price$3,487
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

319 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,383 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,862; most fall between $1,472 and $5,130.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 319 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
$1,102$1,542$2,383$5,038$6,114

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,102 vs $6,114).

Of the 361 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 319 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

708 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 788 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted708
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code788

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 Excision of semilunar cartilage of knee family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Knee Scope,Med+Lat Menis Repair.

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 meniscus repair, both inner and outer (CPT 29883) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29883-knee-arthroscopy-with-meniscus-repair-both-inner-and-outer