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Procedure price report · Arthroscopy

Unlisted arthroscopy procedure

CPT 29999the billing code this page is about

Used for a keyhole joint procedure that has no specific billing code of its own; the surgeon's report describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $2,503 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 599 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,895. Most fall between $540 and $8,326 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
599
States
48
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 599 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
$308$610$2,503$6,186$17,901

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 58× what the cheapest tenth charges ($308 vs $17,901).

How the prices are spread

$266 – $424: 64 hospitals$266$424 – $676: 61 hospitals$676 – $1,079: 39 hospitals$676$1,079 – $1,721: 66 hospitals$1,721 – $2,746: 54 hospitals$1,721$2,746 – $4,381: 87 hospitals$4,381 – $6,990: 65 hospitals$4,381$6,990 – $11,153: 37 hospitals$11,153 – $17,796: 37 hospitals$11,153$17,796 – $28,395: 31 hospitals$17,796median $2,503price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (541 of 599 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$266$42464
$424$67661
$676$1,07939
$1,079$1,72166
$1,721$2,74654
$2,746$4,38187
$4,381$6,99065
$6,990$11,15337
$11,153$17,79637
$17,796$28,39531

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$2,503
Cash as a multiple of Medicare9.9×

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 $2,503.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,507 across 13 hospitalsWA$2,507Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,075 across 22 hospitalsMN$3,075Illinois: median $5,124 across 21 hospitalsIL$5,124Wisconsin: median $3,100 across 18 hospitalsWI$3,100Michigan: median $7,564 across 15 hospitalsMI$7,564New York: median $422 across 44 hospitalsNY$422Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $685 across 11 hospitalsOR$685Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,670 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,670Indiana: median $1,740 across 11 hospitalsIN$1,740Ohio: median $4,804 across 22 hospitalsOH$4,804Pennsylvania: median $406 across 18 hospitalsPA$406New Jersey: median $4,881 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $594 across 41 hospitalsCA$594Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $8,943 across 17 hospitalsMO$8,943Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,190 across 16 hospitalsWV$1,190Virginia: median $9,266 across 11 hospitalsVA$9,266Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 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 $788 across 14 hospitalsKS$788Arkansas: median $2,940 across 10 hospitalsAR$2,940Tennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $5,611 across 11 hospitalsSC$5,611Oklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $2,411 across 10 hospitalsLA$2,411Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $8,943 across 10 hospitalsAL$8,943Georgia: median $8,295 across 13 hospitalsGA$8,295Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,186 across 47 hospitalsTX$3,186Florida: median $1,704 across 12 hospitalsFL$1,704
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,503. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA11$9,266+270%$2,010 – $28,395
Alabama AL10$8,943+257%$220 – $16,611
Missouri MO17$8,943+257%$2,576 – $22,909
Georgia GA13$8,295+231%$3,296 – $8,722
Michigan MI15$7,564+202%$339 – $35,035
South Carolina SC11$5,611+124%$1,448 – $21,612
Illinois IL21$5,124+105%$1,160 – $48,747
New Jersey NJ31$4,881+95%$266 – $8,488
Ohio OH22$4,804+92%$339 – $29,067
Texas TX47$3,186+27%$2,430 – $3,853
Wisconsin WI18$3,100+24%$3,100 – $5,294
Minnesota MN22$3,075+23%$1,257 – $3,966
Arkansas AR10$2,940+17%$906 – $8,627
Washington WA13$2,5070%$1,104 – $4,500
Louisiana LA10$2,411−4%$430 – $3,733
Indiana IN11$1,740−30%$305 – $23,907
Florida FL12$1,704−32%$764 – $17,654
Iowa IA30$1,670−33%$1,004 – $1,711
West Virginia WV16$1,190−52%$619 – $2,562
Kansas KS14$788−69%$330 – $3,519
Oregon OR11$685−73%$685 – $2,252
California CA41$594−76%$594 – $1,155
New York NY44$422−83%$284 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA18$406−84%$252 – $3,627
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,503.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care459$3,100$447 – $11,221
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access131$1,698$688 – $3,966
Ownership
For-profit88$5,224$446 – $14,502
Government101$1,449$505 – $5,014
Non-profit410$2,371$569 – $6,877
System affiliation
Part of a system463$3,020$594 – $9,533
Independent136$1,711$474 – $5,014

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,068
Median cash price$2,503
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

218 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,190 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,499; most fall between $439 and $3,379.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 218 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
$329$594$1,190$3,186$4,468

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($329 vs $4,468).

Of the 250 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 218 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 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

599 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 676 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted599
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code676

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 PR Arthroscopy Procedure, Unlisted Capsulloraphy Rt Hip C/T 29806.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Unlisted arthroscopy procedure (CPT 29999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29999-unlisted-arthroscopy-procedure