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Knee arthroscopy (meniscectomy) in Missouri: what insurers pay Posted commercial rates at 4 Missouri hospitals, each next to its own Medicare base rate.
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CPT 29881 Hospital Median across insurers × Medicare Insurers File date Mercy Hospital St Louis Saint Louis $6,624 2.0× 2 2026-06-04 Mercy Hospital Jefferson Festus $6,624 2.0× 2 2026-06-10 Mercy Hospital South Saint Louis $6,624 2.0× 2 2026-06-10 Mercy Hospital Washington Washington $6,624 2.0× 2 2026-06-10
Questions How much do insurers pay for knee arthroscopy (meniscectomy) in Missouri? 4 Missouri hospitals post usable commercial rates for knee arthroscopy (meniscectomy) in their federal price-transparency files. For CPT 29881, hospital outpatient, the median across 4 hospitals is $6,624 , 2.0× each hospital's local Medicare base rate. Your share depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance; the surgeon and anesthesia bill separately.
Techy Surgeon Price Atlas · commercial rates from hospital price-transparency files as of 2026-09-27. Commercial plans only; payer-specific dollar amounts for the exact code and setting (grade A); no professional-fee, percent-of-charges, per-diem, algorithm or unnamed-payer rows; no duplicate campus files; each rate between 0.5x (outpatient) or 0.6x (inpatient) and 8x the same hospital's local Medicare base rate. Median across each insurer's plans. Historical rates the hospitals themselves posted. Percentiles only where the comparison group has 5 or more hospitals. Market transparency, not pricing guidance. Medicare anchor = the same hospital's local Medicare base rate (OPPS or IPPS FY2026, wage-adjusted; inpatient anchors exclude teaching and safety-net add-ons). Rates are posted contract amounts, not what any patient paid. Method . Free to use; cite as Techy Surgeon Price Atlas (2026).