Pittsburgh → Shoulder arthroscopy
Shoulder arthroscopy in Pittsburgh
No hospital in Pittsburgh publishes a self-pay price for this one. Where a hospital publishes a negotiated range instead, it is shown below.
These prices are not directly comparable
Hospitals bill this one at different levels. One may publish a single operating-room line while another publishes the whole surgical episode — both honest, both under the same billing code. So the figures below are what each hospital publishes, not a like-for-like comparison, and we do not compute a "cheapest" from them. Why →
| Hospital | Self-pay price | List price | Insurers pay | Publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Hospital ahn.org · Jefferson Hills | $91 | $481 | $114–$1,372 | C |
| Forbes Hospital ahn.org · Monroeville | $106 | $481 | $114–$870 | C |
| Allegheny Valley Hospital ahn.org · Natrona | $111 | $481 | $114–$870 | C |
| Allegheny General Hospital ahn.org · Pittsburgh | $115 | $481 | $114–$870 | C |
| Ahn Wexford Hospital ahn.org · Wexford | $125 | $481 | $114–$870 | C |
| West Penn Hospital ahn.org · Pittsburgh | $130 | $481 | $114–$870 | C |
| St Clair Hospital stclair.org · Pittsburgh | $334 | $1,347 | $334–$1,741 | C |
| Magee Womens Hospital of Upmc Health System upmc.com · Pittsburgh | not published | — | $171–$4,910 | B |
| Upmc Presbyterian Shadyside upmc.com · Pittsburgh | not published | — | $652–$5,761 | B |
| Upmc Mercy upmc.com · Pittsburgh | not published | — | $681–$5,185 | B |
| Upmc St Margaret upmc.com · Pittsburgh | not published | — | $845–$5,039 | B |
| Upmc Passavant upmc.com · Pittsburgh | not published | — | $845–$5,039 | B |
| Upmc East upmc.com · Monroeville | not published | — | $845–$5,039 | B |
What these three numbers mean
Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.
Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →
Billing code CPT 29826 —
Shoulder arthroscopy w/ decompression. Every price on this page is read from the hospital's
own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.