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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Opening the thigh bone or knee to drain a bone infection

CPT 27303the billing code this page is about

Deep incision in the thigh or knee area with opening of the outer layer of bone to treat a bone infection or bone abscess.

Hospitals typically charge $1,577 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 256 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,837. Most fall between $1,008 and $3,773 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
256
States
43
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 256 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
$693$1,061$1,577$3,160$5,507

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($693 vs $5,507).

How the prices are spread

$515 – $689: 12 hospitals$515$689 – $922: 19 hospitals$922 – $1,233: 48 hospitals$922$1,233 – $1,649: 49 hospitals$1,649 – $2,206: 21 hospitals$1,649$2,206 – $2,950: 22 hospitals$2,950 – $3,946: 25 hospitals$2,950$3,946 – $5,278: 18 hospitals$5,278 – $7,059: 12 hospitals$5,278$7,059 – $9,441: 6 hospitals$7,059median $1,577price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (232 of 256 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$515$68912
$689$92219
$922$1,23348
$1,233$1,64949
$1,649$2,20621
$2,206$2,95022
$2,950$3,94625
$3,946$5,27818
$5,278$7,05912
$7,059$9,4416

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,577
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.47×

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 $1,577.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $825 across 10 hospitalsIL$825Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,307 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,307New York: median $3,343 across 20 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: 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: 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 $1,577 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,577Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,569 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,569Pennsylvania: median $492 across 17 hospitalsPA$492New Jersey: median $5,110 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,604 across 10 hospitalsCA$1,604Utah: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,061 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,061Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,577. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$5,110+224%$4,233 – $6,311
New York NY20$3,343+112%$1,082 – $3,884
California CA10$1,604+2%$937 – $2,074
Iowa IA18$1,5770%$1,294 – $1,577
Ohio OH13$1,5690%$973 – $2,244
Michigan MI24$1,307−17%$1,262 – $1,307
Oklahoma OK12$1,061−33%$1,061 – $1,061
Illinois IL10$825−48%$693 – $1,222
Pennsylvania PA17$492−69%$401 – $12,525
Texas TX9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not 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
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not 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 $1,577.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care200$1,577$973 – $4,084
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$1,307$1,026 – $3,160
Ownership
For-profit27$2,290$693 – $8,979
Government43$1,803$1,178 – $3,343
Non-profit185$1,488$973 – $3,708
System affiliation
Part of a system190$1,577$1,057 – $3,986
Independent66$1,604$973 – $2,896

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,971
Median cash price$1,577
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

140 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,242 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,341; most fall between $833 and $2,290.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 140 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
$693$973$1,242$1,870$4,964

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($693 vs $4,964).

Of the 160 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 140 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

256 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 309 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted256
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 — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code309

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 bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Inc Deep W/Opng Bone Cortex Femur/Knee.

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, “Opening the thigh bone or knee to drain a bone infection (CPT 27303) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27303-opening-the-thigh-bone-or-knee-to-drain-a-bone-infection