Surgery and procedures CPT 20550 Outpatient

Tendon sheath injection cost in Indianapolis, IN

In Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, 12 hospitals list a cash price for injection into a tendon sheath or ligament (for example trigger finger): from $148.80 to $1,067.40, with a median of $534.60. The lowest listed price is at Johnson Memorial Hospital — $385.80 less than the median here. Across Indiana, the median is $534.60 at 42 hospitals.

The median here, $534.60, is 36% above the US median of $392.00.
That is 1.7× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($313.60).
Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Cash prices at 12 facilities across 7 cities for code 20550, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Nov 2, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jan 1, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026.

Lowest$148.80Johnson Memorial Hospital

Median$534.60half of hospitals charge less

Highest$1,067.40in this market

Difference7.2×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN.

median

Lowest $148.80Highest $1,374.25

Hospitals, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	Insurers pay	Off list
Johnson Memorial Hospital lowest Franklin, IN · (317) 736-3300 Injection into tendon or ligament File of Oct 22, 2026 · source file	$148.80	$186.00	$31.42–$146.94	20%
Witham Memorial Hospital Lebanon, IN · (765) 485-8000 Injection into tendon or ligament File of Oct 26, 2026 · source file	$373.38	$533.40	$324.76–$1,333.50	30%
Franciscan St Francis Health - Carmel Carmel, IN · (317) 528-5000 Inj Tendon Sheath/Ligament File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$514.21	$2,226.00	$285.87–$2,003.40	77%
Franciscan Health Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN · (317) 528-5000 Inj Tendon Sheath/Ligament File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$514.21	$2,226.00	$285.87–$2,003.40	77%
Endo Surgery Center Carmel, IN INJ SINGLE TENDON OR LIGAMENT+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$534.60	$891.00	$8.30–$776.94	40%
Naab Road Surgery Center Indianapolis, IN INJ SINGLE TENDON OR LIGAMENT+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$534.60	$891.00	$8.30–$776.94	40%
Carmel AmbSurg Carmel, IN INJ SINGLE TENDON OR LIGAMENT+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$534.60	$891.00	$8.30–$776.94	40%
St. Vincent Carmel Hospital Carmel, IN · (317) 582-7000 INJ SINGLE TENDON OR LIGAMENT+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$534.60	$891.00	$10.85–$776.94	40%
Franciscan Health Mooresville Mooresville, IN · (317) 831-1160 Inj Tendon Sheath/Ligament File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$565.40	$2,226.00	$285.87–$2,003.40	75%
Ascension St Vincent Mercy Elwood, IN · (765) 552-4743 INJ SINGLE TENDON OR LIGAMENT+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file	$645.60	$1,076.00	$10.85–$1,044.85	40%
Riverview Health Noblesville, IN · (317) 773-0760 INJ SGL TEN SHEATH/LIG/APO File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file	$762.60	$1,271.00	—	40%
Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN · (317) 880-4818 HC Inj of Single Tendon or Ligament File of Mar 1, 2026 · source file	$1,067.40	$1,186.00	$285.00–$1,186.00	10%
Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN · (317) 880-4818 HC Inj of Single Tendon or Ligament File of Mar 1, 2026 · source file	$1,374.25	$1,526.94	$53.00–$1,526.94	10%

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More

Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.

At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More

Outpatient: lowest $148.80, median $534.60, highest $1,067.40 — a 7.2× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 10 facilities here, median $534.60. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 10 of 11 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

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