Riverside → Knee arthroscopy (meniscus)
Knee arthroscopy (meniscus) in Riverside
No hospital in Riverside publishes a self-pay price for this one. Where a hospital publishes a negotiated range instead, it is shown below.
For scale: Medicare pays hospitals about $3,343 for this as an outpatient service — the 2026 national rate, before local wage adjustment.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Riverside healthy.kaiserpermanente.org · Riverside | $5,148 | $9,900 | $3,219–$9,573 | B |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital-moreno Valley healthy.kaiserpermanente.org · Moreno Valley | $5,148 | $9,900 | $3,219–$9,573 | B |
| Riverside Community Hospital riversidecommunityhospital.com · Riverside | not published | — | $93–$12,480 | C |
| Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center riversidecommunityhospital.com · Riverside | not published | — | $93–$12,480 | C |
| Menifee Global Medical Center menifeeglobalmedicalcenter.com · Sun City | not published | — | $456–$13,861 | C |
| Hemet Global Medical Center hemetglobalmedicalcenter.com · Hemet | not published | — | $456–$13,861 | C |
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 29881 —
Knee arthroscopy w/ meniscectomy. 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.