CPT 83021 · 1,517 hospitals reporting

83021

The same procedure costs $50.05 at one hospital and $1,092 at another — a 22× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $91.

Cheapest published

$50.05

404 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 1,517 hospitals

$91

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$1,092

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

500 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
CARILION MEDICAL CENTER	VA	$260	$91	—	—	0 insurers
CARILION NEW RIVER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	VA	$260	$91	—	—	0 insurers
CARILION FRANKLIN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	VA	$260	$91	—	—	0 insurers
CARILION TAZEWELL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	VA	$260	$91	—	—	0 insurers
CARILION GILES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	VA	$260	$91	—	—	0 insurers
RED BAY HOSPITAL	AL	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - WALNUT CREEK	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER, SACRAMENTO	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
SUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - REDWOOD CITY	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
FRESNO SURGICAL HOSPITAL	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL MANTECA	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - SAN LEANDRO	CA	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
MT SAN RAFAEL HOSPITAL	CO	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
SANTA ROSA MEDICAL CENTER	FL	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SOUTH, INC.	IN	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL WESTSIDE	OR	$162	$90.72	—	—	0 insurers
SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL	KY	$192	$90.45	$175	$175	0 insurers
SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL	KY	$192	$90.45	$15.34	$175	0 insurers
HARBOR BEACH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	MI	$120	$90	—	—	0 insurers
PENDER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	NE	$200	$90	$51.3	$194	0 insurers
UCSF HEALTH SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL	CA	$132	$92.4	$18.06	$132	0 insurers
SNOQUALMIE VALLEY HOSPITAL	WA	$159	$92.48	—	—	0 insurers
SAN GORGONIO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	CA	$447	$89.46	—	—	0 insurers
CHI ST ALEXIUS HEALTH DICKINSON	ND	$142	$89.46	$99.4	$138	0 insurers
CHI ST ALEXIUS HEALTH DICKINSON	ND	$142	$89.46	$18.06	$138	0 insurers
DELTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	AR	$116	$92.8	—	—	0 insurers
CARILION STONEWALL JACKSON HOSPITAL	VA	$155	$93	$18.06	$149	0 insurers
CHI HEALTH MISSOURI VALLEY	IA	$181	$88.69	$103	$177	0 insurers
CHI HEALTH MISSOURI VALLEY	IA	$181	$88.69	$18.06	$177	0 insurers
ST TAMMANY PARISH HOSPITAL	LA	$156	$93.6	—	—	0 insurers
STEPHENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	TX	$93.75	$93.75	—	—	0 insurers
VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER	WA	$173	$88.23	—	—	0 insurers
HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL	NY	$94	$94	—	—	0 insurers
CLINCH VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	VA	$236	$94.4	—	—	0 insurers
CLARKE COUNTY HOSPITAL	IA	$87.3	$87.3	—	—	0 insurers
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL	CT	$186	$94.86	—	—	0 insurers
CHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	WY	$136	$94.89	—	—	0 insurers
CHI HEALTH ST. ELIZABETH	NE	$190	$95	$118	$152	0 insurers