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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Cleaning out infected or dead breastbone tissue

CPT 21627the billing code this page is about

Surgical trimming away of damaged, infected, or dead bone and tissue from the sternum.

Hospitals typically charge $1,489 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 298 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,792. Most fall between $826 and $3,786 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
298
States
44
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 298 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$565$897$1,489$2,960$5,339

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($565 vs $5,339).

How the prices are spread

$355 – $487: 12 hospitals$355$487 – $667: 12 hospitals$667 – $916: 42 hospitals$667$916 – $1,256: 38 hospitals$1,256 – $1,723: 39 hospitals$1,256$1,723 – $2,364: 30 hospitals$2,364 – $3,243: 38 hospitals$2,364$3,243 – $4,449: 25 hospitals$4,449 – $6,103: 28 hospitals$4,449$6,103 – $8,372: 9 hospitals$6,103median $1,489price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (273 of 298 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$355$48712
$487$66712
$667$91642
$916$1,25638
$1,256$1,72339
$1,723$2,36430
$2,364$3,24338
$3,243$4,44925
$4,449$6,10328
$6,103$8,3729

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,489
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.45×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,489.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $917 across 12 hospitalsIL$917Wisconsin: median $2,669 across 35 hospitalsWI$2,669Michigan: median $991 across 26 hospitalsMI$991New York: median $3,343 across 27 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $179 across 10 hospitalsOR$179Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,318 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,318Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,594 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,594Pennsylvania: median $416 across 18 hospitalsPA$416New Jersey: median $4,881 across 14 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,633 across 10 hospitalsSC$2,633Oklahoma: median $897 across 12 hospitalsOK$897Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,489. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$4,881+228%$3,986 – $5,855
New York NY27$3,343+125%$1,635 – $4,084
Wisconsin WI35$2,669+79%$1,463 – $2,829
South Carolina SC10$2,633+77%$2,633 – $8,979
Ohio OH12$1,594+7%$1,164 – $1,898
Iowa IA17$1,318−11%$1,318 – $1,318
Michigan MI26$991−33%$991 – $3,418
Illinois IL12$917−38%$694 – $1,318
Oklahoma OK12$897−40%$897 – $897
Pennsylvania PA18$416−72%$339 – $5,318
Oregon OR10$179−88%$179 – $1,794
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,489.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care234$1,474$826 – $4,015
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$1,463$820 – $2,829
Ownership
For-profit26$1,489$694 – $8,979
Government34$1,120$842 – $3,343
Non-profit237$1,635$842 – $3,884
System affiliation
Part of a system238$1,767$820 – $3,884
Independent60$1,286$842 – $3,150

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,855
Median cash price$1,489
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

189 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,318 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,507; most fall between $694 and $2,829.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 189 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$519$820$1,318$2,512$3,418

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($519 vs $3,418).

Of the 213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 189 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

298 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 351 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted298
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code351

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Sternal Debridement.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Cleaning out infected or dead breastbone tissue (CPT 21627) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21627-cleaning-out-infected-or-dead-breastbone-tissue