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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Drainage of an infected fluid sac at the hip or pelvis

CPT 26991the billing code this page is about

Surgery that opens the hip or pelvic area to drain an infected bursa, the fluid-filled cushioning sac near the joint.

Hospitals typically charge $1,894 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 345 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,120. Most fall between $1,108 and $4,122 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
345
States
46
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 345 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
$840$1,225$1,894$3,764$5,317

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($840 vs $5,317).

How the prices are spread

$581 – $742: 9 hospitals$581$742 – $947: 25 hospitals$947 – $1,209: 32 hospitals$947$1,209 – $1,543: 32 hospitals$1,543 – $1,970: 71 hospitals$1,543$1,970 – $2,514: 34 hospitals$2,514 – $3,209: 32 hospitals$2,514$3,209 – $4,097: 23 hospitals$4,097 – $5,229: 35 hospitals$4,097$5,229 – $6,675: 28 hospitals$5,229median $1,894price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (321 of 345 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$581$7429
$742$94725
$947$1,20932
$1,209$1,54332
$1,543$1,97071
$1,970$2,51434
$2,514$3,20932
$3,209$4,09723
$4,097$5,22935
$5,229$6,67528

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,894
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $1,894.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,316 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,316Wisconsin: median $2,618 across 11 hospitalsWI$2,618Michigan: median $1,025 across 14 hospitalsMI$1,025New York: median $1,894 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,854 across 13 hospitalsOR$1,854Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,742 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,742Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,747 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,747Pennsylvania: median $1,876 across 15 hospitalsPA$1,876New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital 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 40 hospitalsCA$4,503Utah: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $872 across 13 hospitalsOK$872Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,764 across 23 hospitalsTX$3,764Florida: median $3,046 across 13 hospitalsFL$3,046
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,894. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA40$4,503+138%$2,067 – $6,675
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+100%$1,771 – $5,419
Texas TX23$3,764+99%$1,438 – $3,764
Florida FL13$3,046+61%$1,836 – $3,046
Wisconsin WI11$2,618+38%$1,832 – $2,618
New York NY27$1,8940%$1,146 – $2,007
Pennsylvania PA15$1,876−1%$104 – $2,706
Oregon OR13$1,854−2%$1,286 – $2,378
Ohio OH13$1,747−8%$1,031 – $1,836
Iowa IA14$1,742−8%$1,742 – $1,742
Illinois IL13$1,316−31%$536 – $1,742
Michigan MI14$1,025−46%$1,019 – $2,211
Oklahoma OK13$872−54%$872 – $3,263
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,894.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care281$1,894$1,136 – $4,503
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access53$1,742$1,084 – $3,764
Ownership
For-profit43$2,200$920 – $3,764
Government42$1,606$1,025 – $2,055
Non-profit259$1,898$1,146 – $4,503
System affiliation
Part of a system276$2,007$1,166 – $4,503
Independent69$1,452$937 – $2,320

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,596
Median cash price$1,894
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

214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,877 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,302; most fall between $872 and $4,503.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 214 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
$723$1,025$1,877$3,764$6,675

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($723 vs $6,675).

Of the 238 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 214 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

345 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 391 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted345
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code391

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 Joint Area Infected Bursa.

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 an infected fluid sac at the hip or pelvis (CPT 26991) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26991-drainage-of-an-infected-fluid-sac-at-the-hip-or-pelvis