Surgery and procedures CPT 20550 Outpatient

Tendon sheath injection cost in Pensacola, FL

In Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL, 2 hospitals list a cash price for injection into a tendon sheath or ligament (for example trigger finger): from $44.25 to $44.70, with a median of $44.48. The lowest listed price is at Baptist Health Care — $0.23 less than the median here. Across Florida, the median is $653.00 at 59 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 20550, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Dec 23, 2025 and Dec 23, 2025.

Lowest$44.25Baptist Health Care
Median$44.48half pay less
Highest$44.70in this market
Difference1.0×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 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL.

median
Lowest $44.25Highest $44.70

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Baptist Health Care lowest Pensacola, FL · (850) 434-4011 INJECT SINGLE TENDON SHEATH/LIGAMENT/APONEUROSIS $44.25 $295.00 $44.25–$295.00 85% Dec 23, 2025
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Jay Hospital Jay, FL · (850) 675-4532 INJ 1 TEND/LIG PLANT FASC $44.70 $298.00 $65.19–$2,356.00 85% Dec 23, 2025
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Outpatient: lowest $44.25, median $44.48, highest $44.70.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $44.48. 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 2 of 2 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is 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.

What it is

This code covers a steroid injection into a tendon sheath or ligament, such as for trigger finger, de Quervain's tenosynovitis or plantar fasciitis.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the injection. The steroid or other medicine may be billed separately.