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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Surgery to lift a shattered dented skull fracture

CPT 62005the billing code this page is about

Operation to raise a depressed skull fracture that is compound or broken into several pieces, with the brain covering left intact.

Hospitals typically charge $3,176 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 183 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,407. Most fall between $2,030 and $5,779 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
183
States
36
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 183 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
$1,320$2,099$3,176$5,000$6,046

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,320 vs $6,046).

How the prices are spread

$1,001 – $1,213: 8 hospitals$1,001$1,213 – $1,471: 5 hospitals$1,471 – $1,782: 4 hospitals$1,471$1,782 – $2,159: 25 hospitals$2,159 – $2,617: 22 hospitals$2,159$2,617 – $3,171: 20 hospitals$3,171 – $3,843: 14 hospitals$3,171$3,843 – $4,657: 31 hospitals$4,657 – $5,644: 8 hospitals$4,657$5,644 – $6,839: 30 hospitals$5,644median $3,176price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (167 of 183 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,001$1,2138
$1,213$1,4715
$1,471$1,7824
$1,782$2,15925
$2,159$2,61722
$2,617$3,17120
$3,171$3,84314
$3,843$4,65731
$4,657$5,6448
$5,644$6,83930

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,176.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $1,679 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,679Wisconsin: median $6,046 across 20 hospitalsWI$6,046Michigan: median $3,513 across 15 hospitalsMI$3,513New York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,377 across 10 hospitalsOR$2,377Nevada: 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 $2,985 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,985Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $4,584 across 10 hospitalsOH$4,584Pennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $4,881 across 18 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $2,099 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,099Louisiana: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,176. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI20$6,046+90%$5,923 – $6,046
New Jersey NJ18$4,881+54%$2,606 – $5,855
Ohio OH10$4,584+44%$2,311 – $4,584
Michigan MI15$3,513+11%$1,952 – $4,317
Iowa IA14$2,985−6%$2,985 – $2,985
Oregon OR10$2,377−25%$2,377 – $4,089
Oklahoma OK10$2,099−34%$2,099 – $2,099
Illinois IL10$1,679−47%$1,001 – $2,464
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not 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
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not 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
Tennessee TN1not 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 $3,176.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care144$2,985$2,032 – $5,110
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$4,089$1,865 – $6,046
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government22$3,119$2,243 – $3,974
Non-profit144$3,166$2,030 – $5,876
System affiliation
Part of a system144$3,176$2,030 – $5,923
Independent39$3,119$1,970 – $5,199

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,800
Median cash price$3,176
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

118 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,985 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,937; most fall between $1,865 and $4,573.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 118 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
$1,320$2,099$2,985$4,136$6,046

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,320 vs $6,046).

Of the 137 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 118 gave a usable cash price; 18 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

183 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 208 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted183
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 code208

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 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 Cmpd 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 shattered dented skull fracture (CPT 62005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62005-surgery-to-lift-a-shattered-dented-skull-fracture