Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics

SheltonMason CountyCritical Access Hospitals

Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving)

Quality: 2 of 5 (CMS overall rating)Earliest available date: call (360) 426-1611

What you may pay

With insurance from an employer or private plan: $190Only one plan lists a price here:
Aetna $190 Lower than typical
Typical at 27 hospitals we cover: $3,912 to $9,096 (each hospital’s middle plan price, hospital’s fee). Don’t see your plan? Ask your insurer for its rate here.
Paying yourself (cash price): $1,596Typical hospital’s fee at 5 hospitals we cover: $1,496 to $2,827.

These are prices the hospital published, not a quote. With insurance you usually pay part of the rate (your deductible and coinsurance); the estimator on the procedure page works it out. A higher price does not mean better care.

Doctors usually bill separately. At most hospitals these are the hospital’s own charges. The surgeon, radiologist, anesthesiologist or pathologist usually sends a separate bill: ask each of them for an estimate too.

Source: Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics’s own price file. CareNavIQ last refreshed prices on 2026-11-09.

Next step: ask the hospital for a Good Faith Estimate for this procedure (phone number above).

6 published prices, grouped by who each price applies to.

Cash price 1 price

The hospital's discounted price for patients paying without insurance.

Cash price prices for Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$1,596	Surgeon’s fee	29826 Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; decompress subacromial space w/ part acromioplasty w/ release	—	Outpatient	—

List price (before discounts) 1 price

The hospital's full chargemaster price. Few patients pay this amount.

List price (before discounts) prices for Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$2,128	Surgeon’s fee	29826 Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; decompress subacromial space w/ part acromioplasty w/ release	—	Outpatient	—

Commercial insurance 1 price

Rate negotiated with a private insurer or employer plan, including exchange and public-option plans.

Commercial insurance prices for Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
Aetna	Commercial	$190	Surgeon’s fee	29826 Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; decompress subacromial space w/ part acromioplasty w/ release	fee schedule	Outpatient	—

Medicare Advantage 3 prices

Rate for a private Medicare Advantage plan. Applies only to members of that plan.

Medicare Advantage prices for Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
Blue Cross Blue Shield	Medicare Advantage	$182	Surgeon’s fee	29826 Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; decompress subacromial space w/ part acromioplasty w/ release	fee schedule	Outpatient	—
Mutual of Omaha	Medicare Advantage	$182	Surgeon’s fee	29826 Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; decompress subacromial space w/ part acromioplasty w/ release	fee schedule	Outpatient	—
Wellcare	Medicare Advantage	$607	Surgeon’s fee	29826 Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; decompress subacromial space w/ part acromioplasty w/ release	fee schedule	Outpatient	—

Doctors here who do this procedure

2 doctors affiliated with Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics billed Traditional Medicare for Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving) in 2024, most Medicare services first. See all doctors and practices, including those with no hospital affiliation.

Doctors affiliated with Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics who billed Traditional Medicare for Shoulder arthroscopy (bone shaving)
Doctor or practice	Practice	Medicare quality score	Times billed to Traditional Medicare (2024)	Traditional Medicare amount for their own service (2024)
Robert Mckay, MDOrthopedic Surgery · OlympiaOffers telehealth visits	Olympia Orthopaedic Associates PLLCGroup of 87 clinicians	Not rated	85	$155 at a hospital or surgery center
Bradley Christ, MDOrthopedic Surgery · Olympia	Olympia Orthopaedic Associates PLLCGroup of 87 clinicians	Not rated	46	$154 at a hospital or surgery center

Reading the doctor list

A higher price doesn’t mean better care. The quality score and the price come from different CMS files and are shown separately on purpose.
The amount is what Traditional Medicare (original Medicare) approved for the doctor’s or lab’s own service: Medicare’s payment plus the patient’s share. It is not what commercial insurance or Medicare Advantage pays, and the hospital or surgery center bills separately (surgery centers aren’t in this list).
The Medicare quality score is CMS’s MIPS final score (0 to 100), based mostly on the doctor’s Medicare patients. About half of doctors aren’t scored, so Not rated says nothing bad about a doctor. A group’s score covers everyone in the group.
CMS doesn’t publish counts under 11 patients, so doctors who rarely bill Medicare for this aren’t listed, and No price published means CMS has no amount for that setting.
Medicare’s file doesn’t say where a doctor did the procedure, only that they billed it in Washington. Affiliations are the hospitals each doctor lists with Medicare.

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