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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Surgery to lift a simple dented skull fracture

CPT 62000the billing code this page is about

Operation to raise a depressed area of the skull bone when the covering of the brain is intact and the fracture is uncomplicated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,385 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 267 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,346. Most fall between $1,888 and $4,780 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
267
States
39
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 267 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
$1,328$1,994$3,385$4,637$8,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,328 vs $8,182).

How the prices are spread

$1,004 – $1,238: 11 hospitals$1,004$1,238 – $1,527: 7 hospitals$1,527 – $1,883: 22 hospitals$1,527$1,883 – $2,323: 22 hospitals$2,323 – $2,866: 20 hospitals$2,323$2,866 – $3,535: 50 hospitals$3,535 – $4,360: 46 hospitals$3,535$4,360 – $5,378: 33 hospitals$5,378 – $6,633: 10 hospitals$5,378$6,633 – $8,182: 24 hospitals$6,633median $3,385price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (245 of 267 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,004$1,23811
$1,238$1,5277
$1,527$1,88322
$1,883$2,32322
$2,323$2,86620
$2,866$3,53550
$3,535$4,36046
$4,360$5,37833
$5,378$6,63310
$6,633$8,18224

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$3,385
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $3,385.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,180 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,180Wisconsin: median $4,637 across 12 hospitalsWI$4,637Michigan: median $3,385 across 25 hospitalsMI$3,385New York: median $3,838 across 19 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $3,337 across 11 hospitalsOR$3,337Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,426 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,426Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $4,783 across 10 hospitalsPA$4,783New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,182 across 27 hospitalsCA$8,182Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 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 $1,707 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,707Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,904 across 18 hospitalsTX$2,904Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,385. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$8,182+142%$2,886 – $8,182
Pennsylvania PA10$4,783+41%$1,981 – $6,111
Wisconsin WI12$4,637+37%$4,637 – $4,637
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+18%$3,590 – $5,419
New York NY19$3,838+13%$3,838 – $4,139
Michigan MI25$3,3850%$3,385 – $4,559
Oregon OR11$3,337−1%$1,938 – $3,337
Texas TX18$2,904−14%$2,904 – $2,904
Iowa IA15$2,426−28%$2,426 – $2,426
Oklahoma OK12$1,707−50%$1,707 – $1,707
Illinois IL10$1,180−65%$811 – $2,264
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $3,385.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care223$3,385$1,897 – $5,110
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$3,385$2,137 – $4,637
Ownership
For-profit23$3,414$811 – $5,299
Government31$2,711$1,853 – $3,838
Non-profit213$3,385$1,938 – $4,881
System affiliation
Part of a system219$3,414$1,938 – $5,110
Independent48$2,518$1,675 – $4,234

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,283
Median cash price$3,385
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

158 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,904 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,956; most fall between $1,707 and $5,036.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 158 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
$1,308$1,938$2,904$4,637$8,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,308 vs $8,182).

Of the 176 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 158 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 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

267 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 288 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted267
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code288

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other fracture and dislocation procedure family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Fix Simpl Depress Skull Fx.

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, “Surgery to lift a simple dented skull fracture (CPT 62000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62000-surgery-to-lift-a-simple-dented-skull-fracture