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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Surgical opening and drainage of the hip joint

CPT 27030the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to cut into the hip joint and drain infected fluid or pus from inside it.

Hospitals typically charge $2,259 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 393 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,429. Most fall between $1,162 and $4,611 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
393
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 393 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
$860$1,429$2,259$4,053$7,840

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($860 vs $7,840).

How the prices are spread

$387 – $536: 7 hospitals$387$536 – $741: 8 hospitals$741 – $1,026: 29 hospitals$741$1,026 – $1,420: 34 hospitals$1,420 – $1,965: 74 hospitals$1,420$1,965 – $2,720: 65 hospitals$2,720 – $3,764: 46 hospitals$2,720$3,764 – $5,209: 41 hospitals$5,209 – $7,209: 23 hospitals$5,209$7,209 – $9,978: 29 hospitals$7,209median $2,259price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (356 of 393 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$387$5367
$536$7418
$741$1,02629
$1,026$1,42034
$1,420$1,96574
$1,965$2,72065
$2,720$3,76446
$3,764$5,20941
$5,209$7,20923
$7,209$9,97829

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$2,259
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.30×

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 $2,259.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $4,200 across 12 hospitalsID$4,200Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,999 across 21 hospitalsMN$3,999Illinois: median $1,999 across 19 hospitalsIL$1,999Wisconsin: median $4,611 across 20 hospitalsWI$4,611Michigan: median $2,236 across 29 hospitalsMI$2,236New York: median $2,690 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,690Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,960 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,960Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $2,309 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,309Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,303 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,303Pennsylvania: median $177 across 17 hospitalsPA$177New Jersey: median $5,339 across 15 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,138 across 12 hospitalsCA$2,138Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,488 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,488Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $997 across 11 hospitalsWV$997Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,544 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,544Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,259. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ15$5,339+136%$3,986 – $6,311
Wisconsin WI20$4,611+104%$2,955 – $8,075
Idaho ID12$4,200+86%$1,879 – $14,738
Minnesota MN21$3,999+77%$1,953 – $5,252
New York NY26$2,690+19%$1,520 – $8,594
Nebraska NE10$2,488+10%$1,395 – $3,161
Iowa IA19$2,309+2%$1,991 – $2,619
Ohio OH13$2,303+2%$1,429 – $3,549
Michigan MI29$2,236−1%$1,166 – $2,236
California CA12$2,138−5%$1,773 – $2,645
Illinois IL19$1,999−12%$1,162 – $3,919
Oregon OR17$1,960−13%$1,734 – $3,094
Oklahoma OK12$1,544−32%$1,544 – $1,544
West Virginia WV11$997−56%$983 – $1,645
Pennsylvania PA17$177−92%$139 – $5,318
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,259.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care268$2,236$1,143 – $5,040
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access113$2,259$1,379 – $4,611
Ownership
For-profit34$2,605$1,162 – $14,201
Government72$2,136$1,545 – $3,498
Non-profit286$2,236$1,162 – $4,772
System affiliation
Part of a system282$2,309$1,162 – $5,110
Independent111$1,967$1,395 – $4,053

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,886
Median cash price$2,259
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

206 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,652 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,778; most fall between $1,045 and $2,879.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 206 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
$623$1,162$1,652$2,646$5,040

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($623 vs $5,040).

Of the 235 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 206 gave a usable cash price; 19 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

393 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 457 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted393
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code457

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 Arthrotomy Hip W/Drainage.

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, “Surgical opening and drainage of the hip joint (CPT 27030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27030-surgical-opening-and-drainage-of-the-hip-joint