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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Removal of a shallow foreign object from the hip or pelvis

CPT 27086the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out a foreign body lying just under the skin or in superficial tissue of the pelvis or hip area.

Hospitals typically charge $1,458 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 749 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,786. Most fall between $427 and $4,500 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
749
States
47
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 749 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
$307$534$1,458$3,639$6,010

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($307 vs $6,010).

How the prices are spread

$214 – $306: 36 hospitals$214$306 – $437: 79 hospitals$437 – $623: 68 hospitals$437$623 – $890: 67 hospitals$890 – $1,270: 58 hospitals$890$1,270 – $1,813: 66 hospitals$1,813 – $2,588: 78 hospitals$1,813$2,588 – $3,695: 76 hospitals$3,695 – $5,274: 89 hospitals$3,695$5,274 – $7,529: 62 hospitals$5,274median $1,458price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (679 of 749 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$214$30636
$306$43779
$437$62368
$623$89067
$890$1,27058
$1,270$1,81366
$1,813$2,58878
$2,588$3,69576
$3,695$5,27489
$5,274$7,52962

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$1,458
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.49×

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 $1,458.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,416 across 22 hospitalsWA$3,416Idaho: median $2,315 across 10 hospitalsID$2,315Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $592 across 30 hospitalsIL$592Wisconsin: median $840 across 17 hospitalsWI$840Michigan: median $307 across 28 hospitalsMI$307New York: median $3,387 across 41 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,048 across 29 hospitalsOR$1,048Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $748 across 21 hospitalsIA$748Indiana: median $874 across 10 hospitalsIN$874Ohio: median $418 across 28 hospitalsOH$418Pennsylvania: median $981 across 31 hospitalsPA$981New Jersey: median $3,986 across 25 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,178 across 67 hospitalsCA$3,178Utah: median $891 across 24 hospitalsUT$891Colorado: median $4,264 across 10 hospitalsCO$4,264Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $477 across 13 hospitalsMO$477Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,510 across 14 hospitalsVA$1,510Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $394 across 16 hospitalsKS$394Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $758 across 16 hospitalsTN$758North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $1,880 across 11 hospitalsSC$1,880Oklahoma: median $326 across 24 hospitalsOK$326Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $639 across 24 hospitalsMS$639Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,609 across 15 hospitalsGA$4,609Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,094 across 73 hospitalsTX$2,094Florida: median $2,380 across 26 hospitalsFL$2,380
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,458. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA15$4,609+216%$952 – $4,609
Colorado CO10$4,264+192%$192 – $7,529
New Jersey NJ25$3,986+173%$3,168 – $5,741
Washington WA22$3,416+134%$492 – $5,054
New York NY41$3,387+132%$1,319 – $5,828
California CA67$3,178+118%$2,070 – $4,682
Florida FL26$2,380+63%$2,380 – $8,410
Idaho ID10$2,315+59%$659 – $7,765
Texas TX73$2,094+44%$1,301 – $6,010
South Carolina SC11$1,880+29%$1,758 – $4,447
Virginia VA14$1,510+4%$1,017 – $1,510
Oregon OR29$1,048−28%$567 – $6,970
Pennsylvania PA31$981−33%$115 – $4,720
Utah UT24$891−39%$864 – $1,006
Indiana IN10$874−40%$312 – $2,074
Wisconsin WI17$840−42%$659 – $3,604
Tennessee TN16$758−48%$382 – $1,741
Iowa IA21$748−49%$504 – $1,292
Mississippi MS24$639−56%$376 – $2,320
Illinois IL30$592−59%$226 – $2,396
Missouri MO13$477−67%$364 – $558
Ohio OH28$418−71%$348 – $2,975
Kansas KS16$394−73%$324 – $1,570
Oklahoma OK24$326−78%$278 – $1,945
Michigan MI28$307−79%$307 – $632
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not 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 $1,458.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care574$1,884$496 – $4,682
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access156$663$350 – $2,629
Ownership
For-profit69$1,707$444 – $4,509
Government114$812$387 – $3,416
Non-profit565$1,557$441 – $4,627
System affiliation
Part of a system611$1,758$490 – $4,682
Independent138$663$325 – $2,873

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,359
Median cash price$1,458
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

556 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,676 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,061; most fall between $530 and $4,682.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 556 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
$313$606$1,676$4,447$6,192

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($313 vs $6,192).

Of the 625 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 556 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

749 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 837 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted749
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code837

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 skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl Foreign Body Pelvis/Hip Subcutaneous Tiss.

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, “Removal of a shallow foreign object from the hip or pelvis (CPT 27086) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27086-removal-of-a-shallow-foreign-object-from-the-hip-or-pelvis