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Outpatient procedure · APC 5112 · Surgery or procedure

Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $1,511 per procedure at 1,819 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $1,386 and $1,603.

Also known as: Orthopedic surgery, arthroscopy, outpatient joint surgery

National figures, 2024

Average payment per case
$1,511
Typical range (middle half of hospitals)
$1,386–$1,603
Medicare’s share
$1,19679% of the payment
Average billed charge
$12,397
Hospitals reporting
1,81974,793 procedures

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Narrow by a state, city or ZIP code (optionally a distance around it), and/or pick specific hospitals. With both, your picks are added to the area’s hospitals.

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Specific hospitals up to 10

1,817 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 351–400. Download as CSV

HospitalCasesAverage paymentvs national averageMedicare paidBilled charge
Salina Surgical HospitalSalina, KS · CCN 170187105$1,372About average$1,093$2,930
Manhattan Surgical Hospital LLCManhattan, KS · CCN 17019065$1,372About average$1,090$6,062
Owatonna HospitalOwatonna, MN · CCN 24006940$1,372About average$1,093$6,304
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan, IncManhattan, KS · CCN 17014213$1,372About average$1,079$8,272
Emory Houston Hospital Warner RobinsWarner Robins, GA · CCN 11006922$1,373About average$1,094$8,458
Community Hospital, LLCOklahoma City, OK · CCN 37020394$1,373About average$1,089$17,004
Guadalupe Regional Medical CenterSeguin, TX · CCN 45010444$1,373About average$1,086$9,416
Lakeland Regional Medical CenterLakeland, FL · CCN 10015728$1,373About average$1,060$17,056
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke, VA · CCN 490024264$1,373About average$1,093$3,543
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg, PA · CCN 39033211$1,374About average$1,073$7,914
Dublin Methodist HospitalDublin, OH · CCN 36034818$1,374About average$1,081$13,221
Deaconess Hospital IncEvansville, IN · CCN 15008250$1,374About average$1,085$7,409
Kell West Regional HospitalWichita Falls, TX · CCN 45082722$1,374About average$1,094$5,563
Kettering Health DaytonDayton, OH · CCN 36013368$1,374About average$1,086$14,319
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System WinchestWinchester, TN · CCN 44005816$1,374About average$1,091$15,007
Mountain View HospitalPayson, UT · CCN 46001311$1,374About average$1,095$12,709
Nkc HealthNorth Kansas City, MO · CCN 26009635$1,375About average$1,084$14,172
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial HospitalGreenville, SC · CCN 420078212$1,375About average$1,091$9,366
Mercy Health St Ritas Medical CenterLima, OH · CCN 36006614$1,375About average$1,082$18,670
Finley HospitalDubuque, IA · CCN 16011727$1,375About average$1,095$9,219
Fisher-Titus HospitalNorwalk, OH · CCN 36006513$1,375About average$1,095$8,808
Mercy Health - Tiffin HospitalTiffin, OH · CCN 36008914$1,375About average$1,095$10,404
MercyOne Des Moines Medical CenterDes Moines, IA · CCN 16008327$1,375About average$1,095$11,905
St Lukes HospitalChesterfield, MO · CCN 26017934$1,375About average$1,078$7,191
Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, IncOklahoma City, OK · CCN 370013336$1,375About average$1,092$5,854
Sartori Memorial Hospital, IncCedar Falls, IA · CCN 16004034$1,375About average$1,090$18,266
McLaren Greater LansingLansing, MI · CCN 23016719$1,375About average$1,083$6,880
Marion General HospitalMarion, OH · CCN 36001122$1,375About average$1,090$13,484
Roper HospitalCharleston, SC · CCN 420087144$1,375About average$1,093$7,689
UPMC HorizonGreenville, PA · CCN 39017819$1,375About average$1,084$10,159
Norton Clark HospitalJeffersonville, IN · CCN 15000915$1,375About average$1,096$10,848
Andalusia HealthAndalusia, AL · CCN 01003622$1,375About average$1,095$11,497
University Of Michigan Health SystemAnn Arbor, MI · CCN 230046102$1,376About average$1,092$8,070
Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals, IncMorganton, NC · CCN 34007550$1,376About average$1,092$17,821
Christ HospitalCincinnati, OH · CCN 360163115$1,376About average$1,093$7,082
Tidelands Waccamaw Community HospitalMurrells Inlet, SC · CCN 42009879$1,377About average$1,095$6,788
Grand Strand Regional Medical CenterMyrtle Beach, SC · CCN 42008536$1,377About average$1,092$20,283
SSM Health Saint Louis University HospitalSaint Louis, MO · CCN 26010525$1,377About average$1,097$21,260
Aiken Regional Medical CenterAiken, SC · CCN 42008220$1,377About average$1,074$15,101
CHI Health LakesideOmaha, NE · CCN 28013031$1,378About average$1,073$16,879
University Of Kansas Health System - St Francis CampusTopeka, KS · CCN 17001643$1,378About average$1,091$10,544
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little RockLittle Rock, AR · CCN 04011438$1,378About average$1,097$12,903
Saline Memorial HospitalBenton, AR · CCN 04008423$1,378About average$1,089$16,788
Archbold Memorial HospitalThomasville, GA · CCN 11003815$1,378About average$1,096$8,085
Henry Ford Allegiance HealthJackson, MI · CCN 23009246$1,378About average$1,090$5,663
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical HospitalAlexandria, LA · CCN 19029884$1,378About average$1,093$21,233
University Of Kansas Health System Olathe HospitalOlathe, KS · CCN 17004944$1,378About average$1,085$6,109
Stormont Vail HospitalTopeka, KS · CCN 170086105$1,378About average$1,090$10,848
Parrish Medical CenterTitusville, FL · CCN 10002815$1,379About average$1,083$10,398
Christus Ochsner St Patrick HospitalLake Charles, LA · CCN 19002724$1,379About average$1,098$22,166

National trend

Average payment and billed charge per procedure, and how many Medicare procedures were reported each year.

  • Average payment
  • Average billed charge
2020: 72,034 procedures at 1,920 hospitals · 2021: 76,736 procedures at 1,979 hospitals · 2022: 76,304 procedures at 1,953 hospitals · 2023: 74,709 procedures at 1,886 hospitals · 2024: 74,793 procedures at 1,819 hospitals
View data as a table
Year of careAverage paymentAverage billed charge
2020$1,336$9,994
2021$1,385$10K
2022$1,402$11K
2023$1,399$12K
2024$1,511$12K

By state, 2024

Case-weighted average payment across each state’s reporting hospitals, lowest first.

Show all 50 states
StateHospitalsCasesAverage paymentTypical range
Vermont6501$686$655–$932
Mississippi15447$1,143$1,298–$1,315
South Carolina381,868$1,302$1,339–$1,387
Alabama28868$1,311$1,300–$1,349
Tennessee371,298$1,317$1,309–$1,381
Louisiana281,063$1,333$1,306–$1,360
West Virginia19586$1,333$1,293–$1,363
Georgia541,512$1,343$1,358–$1,465
Ohio863,612$1,346$1,332–$1,398
Kentucky27971$1,363$1,334–$1,395
Oklahoma381,936$1,366$1,353–$1,397
Arkansas241,351$1,375$1,351–$1,434
Michigan592,063$1,378$1,377–$1,435
Kansas271,211$1,391$1,372–$1,429
Iowa20704$1,392$1,363–$1,434
Missouri481,646$1,397$1,373–$1,447
Indiana461,499$1,414$1,433–$1,463
Texas1355,815$1,414$1,395–$1,449
Idaho13667$1,418$1,446–$1,498
Nebraska16776$1,424$1,405–$1,462
Florida1013,550$1,425$1,428–$1,456
Virginia522,383$1,426$1,384–$1,500
North Carolina552,093$1,428$1,399–$1,447
Utah25731$1,432$1,395–$1,440
Maine11315$1,451$1,402–$1,496
Pennsylvania894,368$1,454$1,422–$1,538
Wisconsin481,852$1,461$1,441–$1,491
Illinois662,210$1,486$1,455–$1,526
New Mexico10474$1,502$1,400–$1,499
Colorado27746$1,510$1,530–$1,533
Montana9389$1,516$1,499–$1,519
New Hampshire10475$1,522$1,505–$1,539
South Dakota131,029$1,525$1,498–$1,614
Minnesota411,407$1,528$1,487–$1,546
North Dakota5594$1,541$1,507–$1,572
Arizona401,437$1,570$1,566–$1,568
Wyoming6118$1,584$1,527–$1,614
Delaware5335$1,610$1,613–$1,613
Rhode Island7233$1,617$1,583–$1,631
District of Columbia5172$1,623$1,644–$1,644
Washington402,105$1,649$1,603–$1,690
New Jersey381,533$1,689$1,675–$1,704
Alaska6195$1,697$1,668–$1,720
Massachusetts473,693$1,708$1,695–$1,726
Nevada16427$1,711$1,699–$1,722
Oregon26779$1,720$1,651–$1,730
New York894,787$1,731$1,704–$1,815
Connecticut21595$1,788$1,762–$1,809
Hawaii9274$1,893$1,809–$1,980
California1385,100$2,038$1,976–$2,116

About these numbers

Average payment is what Medicare paid plus the patient’s deductible and coinsurance (and any other insurer), averaged over the hospital’s Medicare cases. It covers the hospital’s part of the care; doctors bill separately. For outpatient procedures it is Medicare’s allowed amount, which leaves out extra “outlier” payments for unusually costly cases; those are shown under the hospital name where CMS reported any, and included in the CSV. Billed charges are the hospital’s list prices, which few patients pay.

Medicare sets its payments by formula, adjusting for local wages, teaching programs, the share of low-income patients and unusually costly cases. Those adjustments drive most differences between hospitals, so a lower payment doesn’t mean better or worse care, and Medicare patients’ own costs usually vary much less than the totals. Private insurance pays different, usually higher, prices.

Source: CMS Medicare Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service (Medicare fee-for-service claims). CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 procedures. More in the glossary.