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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of the fluid sac in front of the kneecap

CPT 27340the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out the inflamed cushioning sac that lies over the front of the kneecap.

Hospitals typically charge $1,702 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 733 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,138. Most fall between $680 and $5,300 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
733
States
47
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 733 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
$539$767$1,702$4,311$7,408

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($539 vs $7,408).

How the prices are spread

$399 – $559: 54 hospitals$399$559 – $782: 101 hospitals$782 – $1,095: 99 hospitals$782$1,095 – $1,533: 65 hospitals$1,533 – $2,146: 55 hospitals$1,533$2,146 – $3,004: 45 hospitals$3,004 – $4,205: 81 hospitals$3,004$4,205 – $5,887: 62 hospitals$5,887 – $8,242: 70 hospitals$5,887$8,242 – $11,538: 29 hospitals$8,242median $1,702price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (661 of 733 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$399$55954
$559$782101
$782$1,09599
$1,095$1,53365
$1,533$2,14655
$2,146$3,00445
$3,004$4,20581
$4,205$5,88762
$5,887$8,24270
$8,242$11,53829

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,702
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.51×

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 $1,702.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $617 across 10 hospitalsME$617Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $490 across 10 hospitalsNH$490Washington: median $1,306 across 17 hospitalsWA$1,306Idaho: median $2,849 across 16 hospitalsID$2,849Montana: median $1,097 across 13 hospitalsMT$1,097North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,779 across 29 hospitalsMN$1,779Illinois: median $1,144 across 26 hospitalsIL$1,144Wisconsin: median $1,988 across 40 hospitalsWI$1,988Michigan: median $726 across 36 hospitalsMI$726New York: median $3,343 across 39 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,118 across 23 hospitalsOR$1,118Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $912 across 40 hospitalsIA$912Indiana: median $673 across 17 hospitalsIN$673Ohio: median $1,396 across 26 hospitalsOH$1,396Pennsylvania: median $816 across 26 hospitalsPA$816New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,311 across 53 hospitalsCA$4,311Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $919 across 10 hospitalsCO$919Nebraska: median $1,384 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,384Missouri: median $1,430 across 17 hospitalsMO$1,430Kentucky: median $731 across 12 hospitalsKY$731West Virginia: median $3,876 across 19 hospitalsWV$3,876Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $705 across 16 hospitalsKS$705Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $889 across 10 hospitalsTN$889North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $787 across 17 hospitalsOK$787Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,309 across 11 hospitalsAL$3,309Georgia: median $6,307 across 15 hospitalsGA$6,307Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,270 across 35 hospitalsTX$3,270Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,702. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA15$6,307+270%$145 – $6,307
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+154%$3,594 – $5,339
California CA53$4,311+153%$1,127 – $6,300
West Virginia WV19$3,876+128%$396 – $6,165
New York NY39$3,343+96%$701 – $3,884
Alabama AL11$3,309+94%$860 – $7,408
Texas TX35$3,270+92%$1,220 – $6,273
Idaho ID16$2,849+67%$822 – $8,372
Wisconsin WI40$1,988+17%$1,411 – $3,322
Minnesota MN29$1,779+5%$860 – $2,374
Missouri MO17$1,430−16%$578 – $4,071
Ohio OH26$1,396−18%$916 – $12,574
Nebraska NE15$1,384−19%$902 – $2,580
Washington WA17$1,306−23%$662 – $4,759
Illinois IL26$1,144−33%$652 – $2,526
Oregon OR23$1,118−34%$708 – $1,622
Montana MT13$1,097−36%$587 – $1,770
Colorado CO10$919−46%$540 – $6,433
Iowa IA40$912−46%$726 – $1,193
Tennessee TN10$889−48%$478 – $6,056
Pennsylvania PA26$816−52%$247 – $5,486
Oklahoma OK17$787−54%$787 – $6,612
Kentucky KY12$731−57%$539 – $2,696
Michigan MI36$726−57%$641 – $4,499
Kansas KS16$705−59%$465 – $2,708
Indiana IN17$673−60%$469 – $1,060
Maine ME10$617−64%$256 – $882
New Hampshire NH10$490−71%$273 – $875
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,702.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care485$2,989$708 – $6,300
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access235$1,060$634 – $2,288
Ownership
For-profit83$4,289$999 – $9,441
Government146$1,047$680 – $3,840
Non-profit502$1,808$649 – $4,663
System affiliation
Part of a system550$1,988$683 – $6,114
Independent183$1,237$673 – $3,553

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,724
Median cash price$1,702
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

354 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,118 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,565; most fall between $596 and $4,245.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 354 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
$478$694$1,118$3,197$6,300

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($478 vs $6,300).

Of the 397 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 354 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 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

733 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 811 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted733
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code811

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Prepatellar 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, “Removal of the fluid sac in front of the kneecap (CPT 27340) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27340-removal-of-the-fluid-sac-in-front-of-the-kneecap