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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Drainage of a deep abscess or blood collection at the hip

CPT 26990the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening and drainage of a deep pocket of pus or blood in the pelvis or hip joint area.

Hospitals typically charge $2,692 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 961 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,878. Most fall between $1,176 and $5,840 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
961
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 961 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
$832$1,295$2,692$4,767$8,170

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($832 vs $8,170).

How the prices are spread

$608 – $817: 46 hospitals$608$817 – $1,099: 79 hospitals$1,099 – $1,477: 114 hospitals$1,099$1,477 – $1,986: 89 hospitals$1,986 – $2,670: 103 hospitals$1,986$2,670 – $3,590: 104 hospitals$3,590 – $4,826: 141 hospitals$3,590$4,826 – $6,488: 71 hospitals$6,488 – $8,723: 86 hospitals$6,488$8,723 – $11,727: 32 hospitals$8,723median $2,692price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (865 of 961 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$608$81746
$817$1,09979
$1,099$1,477114
$1,477$1,98689
$1,986$2,670103
$2,670$3,590104
$3,590$4,826141
$4,826$6,48871
$6,488$8,72386
$8,723$11,72732

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,692
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.81×

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 $2,692.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,276 across 10 hospitalsME$1,276Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,470 across 29 hospitalsWA$3,470Idaho: median $3,090 across 11 hospitalsID$3,090Montana: median $1,880 across 12 hospitalsMT$1,880North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,515 across 43 hospitalsMN$1,515Illinois: median $1,659 across 32 hospitalsIL$1,659Wisconsin: median $3,618 across 34 hospitalsWI$3,618Michigan: median $1,176 across 37 hospitalsMI$1,176New York: median $3,840 across 42 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,270 across 33 hospitalsOR$2,270Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,606 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,606Indiana: median $2,169 across 30 hospitalsIN$2,169Ohio: median $1,834 across 22 hospitalsOH$1,834Pennsylvania: median $3,855 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,855New Jersey: median $4,451 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,451Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,503 across 86 hospitalsCA$4,503Utah: median $369 across 21 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $2,633 across 16 hospitalsCO$2,633Nebraska: median $3,585 across 13 hospitalsNE$3,585Missouri: median $997 across 14 hospitalsMO$997Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,658 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,658Virginia: median $5,801 across 12 hospitalsVA$5,801Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,566 across 16 hospitalsKS$1,566Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $732 across 14 hospitalsTN$732North Carolina: median $2,504 across 24 hospitalsNC$2,504South Carolina: median $9,603 across 11 hospitalsSC$9,603Oklahoma: median $1,086 across 18 hospitalsOK$1,086Louisiana: median $2,059 across 13 hospitalsLA$2,059Mississippi: median $1,308 across 12 hospitalsMS$1,308Alabama: median $3,902 across 10 hospitalsAL$3,902Georgia: median $8,167 across 35 hospitalsGA$8,167Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,954 across 78 hospitalsTX$2,954Florida: median $3,257 across 36 hospitalsFL$3,257
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,692. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$9,603+257%$4,636 – $9,603
Georgia GA35$8,167+203%$3,486 – $11,916
Virginia VA12$5,801+115%$2,941 – $6,886
California CA86$4,503+67%$2,322 – $8,170
New Jersey NJ35$4,451+65%$3,591 – $5,855
Alabama AL10$3,902+45%$823 – $4,767
Pennsylvania PA19$3,855+43%$3,218 – $6,637
New York NY42$3,840+43%$1,102 – $4,001
Wisconsin WI34$3,618+34%$2,558 – $5,130
Nebraska NE13$3,585+33%$1,457 – $3,825
Washington WA29$3,470+29%$1,462 – $6,876
Florida FL36$3,257+21%$1,460 – $12,032
Idaho ID11$3,090+15%$1,525 – $8,372
Texas TX78$2,954+10%$2,469 – $4,193
Colorado CO16$2,633−2%$1,338 – $8,676
North Carolina NC24$2,504−7%$1,295 – $5,878
Oregon OR33$2,270−16%$1,258 – $7,938
Indiana IN30$2,169−19%$783 – $3,330
Louisiana LA13$2,059−24%$1,180 – $6,174
Montana MT12$1,880−30%$1,104 – $3,198
Ohio OH22$1,834−32%$832 – $8,284
Illinois IL32$1,659−38%$783 – $4,020
West Virginia WV17$1,658−38%$712 – $4,496
Iowa IA27$1,606−40%$1,251 – $1,669
Kansas KS16$1,566−42%$975 – $2,566
Minnesota MN43$1,515−44%$1,007 – $3,554
Mississippi MS12$1,308−51%$1,047 – $2,166
Maine ME10$1,276−53%$877 – $1,642
Michigan MI37$1,176−56%$990 – $3,245
Oklahoma OK18$1,086−60%$1,086 – $8,345
Missouri MO14$997−63%$913 – $15,746
Tennessee TN14$732−73%$444 – $4,091
Utah UT21$369−86%$362 – $545
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,692.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care717$3,101$1,228 – $6,603
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access227$1,868$1,037 – $3,700
Ownership
For-profit103$3,090$1,189 – $8,167
Government170$2,376$1,286 – $5,808
Non-profit686$2,706$1,141 – $5,700
System affiliation
Part of a system765$3,082$1,176 – $5,972
Independent196$1,970$1,087 – $4,051

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,020
Median cash price$2,692
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

618 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,671 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,032; most fall between $1,102 and $6,876.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 618 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
$783$1,258$2,671$5,805$8,676

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($783 vs $8,676).

Of the 701 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 618 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

961 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,072 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted961
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code1,072

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D Pelvis/Hip Jt Area Deep Abscess/Hematoma.

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, “Drainage of a deep abscess or blood collection at the hip (CPT 26990) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26990-drainage-of-a-deep-abscess-or-blood-collection-at-the-hip