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Shoulder bone shaving (keyhole surgery) — Macon, GA (code 29826)
4 hospitals reporting, within 35 miles of Macon · printed
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Shoulder bone shaving (keyhole surgery) in Macon, GA29826

Shoulder arthroscopy/surgery

Lowest reported
$166
Typical
$197
Highest reported
$5,450

Across 4 hospitals within 35 miles of Macon that publish a negotiated price for this code. Each hospital's figure is the middle of the rates it publishes across its own insurance plans, so the spread within one hospital is often wider than the gap between two. A hospital whose published address is a PO box is placed at its city centre, so a distance shown for it is approximate.

Two different kinds of price are mixed together below. A procedure code is billed twice — once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work — and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. For this code, 1 hospital publishes a facility charge and 3 hospitals publish both, mixed together. A physician fee is typically a small fraction of the hospital charge, so a much lower number here usually means it is measuring less, not that the hospital is cheaper. Unlabelled does not mean it is the hospital charge — some hospitals publish a physician fee without saying so, and nothing in the data distinguishes them.
Hospital Typical Hospital’s own chargefacility Doctor’s chargeprofessional Self-paycash price Lowest Highest Plans on file
Navicent Health Baldwin
MILLEDGEVILLE · 26.5 mi · ★2/5
Facility & physician mixed 		see split → $165 $183 not published $163 $5,479 29
Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center
MACON · 3.2 mi · ★2/5
Facility & physician mixed 		see split → $166 $208 not published $163 $5,079 36
Atrium Health Navicent Peach
BYRON · 16.2 mi · ★1/5
Facility & physician mixed 		see split → $3,297 $196 not published $188 $3,297 19
Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins
WARNER ROBINS · 14.3 mi · ★2/5
Facility fee only 		$5,450 $5,450 not mentioned not published $1,580 $6,293 4
The doctor’s side, roughly. Nationally, Medicare allows about $117 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 2,425 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above, and it is not added to any figure on this page — it is a Medicare average, not this hospital’s charge and not your plan’s rate, so combining them would produce a total no source states. It is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.
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These are prices the hospitals published themselves, as required by the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50). They are the hospital's share only — the surgeon, anesthesiologist and radiologist usually bill separately and do not appear in any hospital file, so treat every figure here as part of a total rather than the total. What you actually pay also depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.