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Procedure price report · Arthroscopy

Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction of the knee

CPT 29888the billing code this page is about

Keyhole-assisted surgery to repair, reinforce, or rebuild the anterior cruciate ligament in the knee.

Hospitals typically charge $5,596 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,016 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,809. Most fall between $2,101 and $17,234 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,016
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 1,016 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
$1,510$2,416$5,596$13,784$28,521

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,510 vs $28,521).

How the prices are spread

$937 – $1,370: 40 hospitals$937$1,370 – $2,005: 81 hospitals$2,005 – $2,934: 134 hospitals$2,005$2,934 – $4,293: 101 hospitals$4,293 – $6,281: 127 hospitals$4,293$6,281 – $9,190: 130 hospitals$9,190 – $13,446: 94 hospitals$9,190$13,446 – $19,674: 100 hospitals$19,674 – $28,786: 61 hospitals$19,674$28,786 – $42,118: 48 hospitals$28,786median $5,596price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (916 of 1,016 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$937$1,37040
$1,370$2,00581
$2,005$2,934134
$2,934$4,293101
$4,293$6,281127
$6,281$9,190130
$9,190$13,44694
$13,446$19,674100
$19,674$28,78661
$28,786$42,11848

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$5,596
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $5,596.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,372 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,372New Hampshire: median $1,563 across 11 hospitalsNH$1,563Washington: median $4,148 across 24 hospitalsWA$4,148Idaho: median $9,947 across 17 hospitalsID$9,947Montana: median $2,955 across 13 hospitalsMT$2,955North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,857 across 37 hospitalsMN$4,857Illinois: median $4,159 across 38 hospitalsIL$4,159Wisconsin: median $5,114 across 40 hospitalsWI$5,114Michigan: median $4,301 across 44 hospitalsMI$4,301New York: median $8,454 across 63 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: median $16,787 across 15 hospitalsMA$16,787Oregon: median $2,706 across 26 hospitalsOR$2,706Nevada: 9 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 $2,435 across 44 hospitalsIA$2,435Indiana: median $5,561 across 28 hospitalsIN$5,561Ohio: median $24,359 across 45 hospitalsOH$24,359Pennsylvania: median $6,943 across 32 hospitalsPA$6,943New Jersey: median $7,807 across 34 hospitalsNJ$7,807Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $9,001 across 66 hospitalsCA$9,001Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,122 across 15 hospitalsCO$2,122Nebraska: median $3,838 across 22 hospitalsNE$3,838Missouri: median $9,543 across 34 hospitalsMO$9,543Kentucky: median $3,275 across 16 hospitalsKY$3,275West Virginia: median $4,486 across 20 hospitalsWV$4,486Virginia: median $26,044 across 17 hospitalsVA$26,044Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $7,090 across 12 hospitalsAZ$7,090New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,841 across 25 hospitalsKS$2,841Arkansas: median $2,747 across 15 hospitalsAR$2,747Tennessee: median $9,072 across 19 hospitalsTN$9,072North Carolina: median $7,295 across 11 hospitalsNC$7,295South Carolina: median $5,249 across 11 hospitalsSC$5,249Oklahoma: median $2,047 across 19 hospitalsOK$2,047Louisiana: median $13,830 across 15 hospitalsLA$13,830Mississippi: median $7,676 across 12 hospitalsMS$7,676Alabama: median $8,220 across 17 hospitalsAL$8,220Georgia: median $11,309 across 14 hospitalsGA$11,309Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $8,358 across 44 hospitalsTX$8,358Florida: median $28,878 across 22 hospitalsFL$28,878
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,596. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL22$28,878+416%$7,171 – $54,655
Virginia VA17$26,044+365%$7,025 – $41,950
Ohio OH45$24,359+335%$2,768 – $46,091
Massachusetts MA15$16,787+200%$2,475 – $41,021
Louisiana LA15$13,830+147%$7,195 – $17,938
Georgia GA14$11,309+102%$7,242 – $17,443
Idaho ID17$9,947+78%$2,455 – $12,106
Missouri MO34$9,543+71%$1,524 – $26,957
Tennessee TN19$9,072+62%$1,300 – $13,589
California CA66$9,001+61%$2,808 – $18,200
New York NY63$8,454+51%$2,359 – $13,784
Texas TX44$8,358+49%$6,210 – $18,524
Alabama AL17$8,220+47%$3,579 – $24,093
New Jersey NJ34$7,807+40%$4,350 – $9,388
Mississippi MS12$7,676+37%$3,052 – $18,539
North Carolina NC11$7,295+30%$2,976 – $10,715
Arizona AZ12$7,090+27%$1,524 – $18,831
Pennsylvania PA32$6,943+24%$632 – $13,461
Indiana IN28$5,561−1%$2,335 – $24,371
South Carolina SC11$5,249−6%$3,614 – $36,022
Wisconsin WI40$5,114−9%$4,812 – $8,919
Minnesota MN37$4,857−13%$2,471 – $6,769
West Virginia WV20$4,486−20%$1,073 – $7,527
Michigan MI44$4,301−23%$2,081 – $16,374
Illinois IL38$4,159−26%$1,773 – $17,181
Washington WA24$4,148−26%$2,071 – $15,386
Nebraska NE22$3,838−31%$2,093 – $8,280
Kentucky KY16$3,275−41%$1,516 – $17,700
Montana MT13$2,955−47%$605 – $6,404
Kansas KS25$2,841−49%$894 – $9,823
Arkansas AR15$2,747−51%$1,556 – $9,057
Oregon OR26$2,706−52%$1,799 – $3,225
Iowa IA44$2,435−56%$2,286 – $5,862
Colorado CO15$2,122−62%$1,532 – $10,683
Oklahoma OK19$2,047−63%$2,047 – $19,497
New Hampshire NH11$1,563−72%$901 – $3,483
Vermont VT10$1,372−75%$822 – $4,034
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not 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 $5,596.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care708$7,914$2,416 – $19,643
Children’s26$4,852$2,579 – $11,646
Critical access281$3,014$1,660 – $6,769
Ownership
For-profit128$10,715$4,148 – $25,359
Government187$3,607$1,843 – $11,128
Non-profit700$5,326$2,047 – $16,881
System affiliation
Part of a system763$6,769$2,405 – $18,200
Independent253$3,825$1,766 – $10,640

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,692
Median cash price$5,596
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

434 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,360 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,228; most fall between $1,605 and $10,772.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 434 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
$925$1,799$3,360$8,358$18,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($925 vs $18,200).

Of the 491 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 434 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,016 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,133 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,016
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,133

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 Arthroscopy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrs Aided Ant Cruciate Ligm Rpr/Agmntj/Rcnstj.

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, “Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction of the knee (CPT 29888) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29888-arthroscopic-acl-reconstruction-of-the-knee