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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of hip and femur

Surgery for a broken ball of the hip joint

CPT 27269the billing code this page is about

Open surgical repair of a break in the head of the thigh bone, including internal fixation hardware when used.

Hospitals typically charge $3,220 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 267 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,637. Most fall between $1,995 and $6,071 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
267
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 267 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
$1,283$2,038$3,220$5,734$8,613

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,283 vs $8,613).

How the prices are spread

$937 – $1,187: 8 hospitals$937$1,187 – $1,503: 17 hospitals$1,503 – $1,905: 14 hospitals$1,503$1,905 – $2,413: 52 hospitals$2,413 – $3,057: 21 hospitals$2,413$3,057 – $3,873: 30 hospitals$3,873 – $4,907: 20 hospitals$3,873$4,907 – $6,216: 45 hospitals$6,216 – $7,876: 16 hospitals$6,216$7,876 – $9,978: 21 hospitals$7,876median $3,220price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (244 of 267 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$937$1,1878
$1,187$1,50317
$1,503$1,90514
$1,905$2,41352
$2,413$3,05721
$3,057$3,87330
$3,873$4,90720
$4,907$6,21645
$6,216$7,87616
$7,876$9,97821

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,220
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.43×

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 $3,220.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 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: 3 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: median $6,420 across 12 hospitalsMN$6,420Illinois: median $2,362 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,362Wisconsin: median $5,955 across 27 hospitalsWI$5,955Michigan: median $2,240 across 28 hospitalsMI$2,240New York: median $3,765 across 23 hospitalsNY$3,765Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,055 across 13 hospitalsOH$3,055Pennsylvania: median $296 across 16 hospitalsPA$296New Jersey: median $5,339 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 9 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 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: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,038 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,038Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,220. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN12$6,420+99%$4,888 – $6,420
Wisconsin WI27$5,955+85%$5,734 – $8,573
New Jersey NJ14$5,339+66%$4,350 – $6,839
New York NY23$3,765+17%$2,074 – $8,613
Ohio OH13$3,055−5%$1,892 – $4,911
Illinois IL13$2,362−27%$967 – $4,678
Michigan MI28$2,240−30%$2,240 – $5,734
Oklahoma OK11$2,038−37%$2,038 – $2,038
Pennsylvania PA16$296−91%$252 – $3,368
California CA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,220.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care191$3,203$1,911 – $6,071
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$3,345$2,032 – $6,071
Ownership
For-profit25$2,957$967 – $5,665
Government52$2,881$2,024 – $6,564
Non-profit189$3,344$1,995 – $6,071
System affiliation
Part of a system197$3,332$1,879 – $6,071
Independent70$2,609$1,995 – $5,665

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,981
Median cash price$3,220
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

142 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,433 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,250; most fall between $1,458 and $5,734.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 142 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
$967$1,767$2,433$4,617$6,038

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($967 vs $6,038).

Of the 172 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 142 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 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

267 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 317 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted267
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code317

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of hip and femur family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Tx Femoral Fracture Proximal End Head.

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, “Surgery for a broken ball of the hip joint (CPT 27269) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27269-surgery-for-a-broken-ball-of-the-hip-joint