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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Ankle arthroscopy with partial removal of joint lining

CPT 29895the billing code this page is about

Keyhole ankle surgery in which part of the inflamed joint lining is removed.

Hospitals typically charge $2,233 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 582 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,649. Most fall between $884 and $5,830 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
582
States
47
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 582 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
$720$1,046$2,233$4,871$8,290

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($720 vs $8,290).

How the prices are spread

$493 – $707: 28 hospitals$493$707 – $1,014: 87 hospitals$1,014 – $1,454: 62 hospitals$1,014$1,454 – $2,085: 78 hospitals$2,085 – $2,991: 36 hospitals$2,085$2,991 – $4,291: 92 hospitals$4,291 – $6,155: 64 hospitals$4,291$6,155 – $8,829: 53 hospitals$8,829 – $12,664: 19 hospitals$8,829$12,664 – $18,166: 6 hospitals$12,664median $2,233price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (525 of 582 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$493$70728
$707$1,01487
$1,014$1,45462
$1,454$2,08578
$2,085$2,99136
$2,991$4,29192
$4,291$6,15564
$6,155$8,82953
$8,829$12,66419
$12,664$18,1666

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,233
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.67×

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 $2,233.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,786 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,786Idaho: median $6,877 across 13 hospitalsID$6,877Montana: 6 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 $2,443 across 21 hospitalsMN$2,443Illinois: median $1,162 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,162Wisconsin: median $3,491 across 34 hospitalsWI$3,491Michigan: median $1,765 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,765New York: median $3,840 across 46 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,008 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,008Nevada: 4 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 $1,162 across 29 hospitalsIA$1,162Indiana: median $890 across 13 hospitalsIN$890Ohio: median $1,854 across 21 hospitalsOH$1,854Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 26 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,350 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,572 across 45 hospitalsCA$1,572Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,450 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,450Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $888 across 17 hospitalsWV$888Virginia: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,267 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,267Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $769 across 14 hospitalsOK$769Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,240 across 28 hospitalsTX$4,240Florida: median $27,806 across 11 hospitalsFL$27,806
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,233. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL11$27,806+1145%$3,257 – $28,210
Idaho ID13$6,877+208%$1,186 – $8,372
New Jersey NJ34$4,350+95%$3,591 – $8,290
Texas TX28$4,240+90%$2,653 – $6,513
New York NY46$3,840+72%$1,268 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI34$3,491+56%$2,288 – $5,830
Pennsylvania PA26$3,139+41%$300 – $5,486
Minnesota MN21$2,443+9%$1,245 – $3,367
Ohio OH21$1,854−17%$1,188 – $3,553
Washington WA15$1,786−20%$856 – $4,414
Michigan MI33$1,765−21%$939 – $3,491
California CA45$1,572−30%$1,384 – $7,375
Nebraska NE12$1,450−35%$972 – $3,095
Kansas KS12$1,267−43%$724 – $4,462
Iowa IA29$1,162−48%$1,058 – $2,094
Illinois IL21$1,162−48%$848 – $8,927
Oregon OR16$1,008−55%$853 – $1,549
Indiana IN13$890−60%$848 – $2,563
West Virginia WV17$888−60%$482 – $2,544
Oklahoma OK14$769−66%$769 – $6,612
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $2,233.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care416$3,343$974 – $6,513
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access153$1,449$796 – $3,491
Ownership
For-profit71$3,855$1,046 – $10,513
Government90$1,655$889 – $4,740
Non-profit421$2,094$853 – $5,486
System affiliation
Part of a system448$2,563$881 – $6,114
Independent134$1,591$884 – $4,414

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,633
Median cash price$2,233
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

285 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,472 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,997; most fall between $836 and $4,903.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 285 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
$651$853$1,472$3,807$7,375

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($651 vs $7,375).

Of the 318 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 285 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 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

582 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 647 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted582
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code647

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 Ankle Surgical Synovectomy Partial.

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, “Ankle arthroscopy with partial removal of joint lining (CPT 29895) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29895-ankle-arthroscopy-with-partial-removal-of-joint-lining