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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of deep foreign object from thigh or knee

CPT 27372the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out a foreign body embedded in the deep tissues of the thigh or knee area, below the skin and fatty layer.

Hospitals typically charge $2,677 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,147 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,733. Most fall between $935 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,147
States
49
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 1,147 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
$656$1,128$2,677$4,529$7,566

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($656 vs $7,566).

How the prices are spread

$518 – $689: 89 hospitals$518$689 – $916: 66 hospitals$916 – $1,218: 96 hospitals$916$1,218 – $1,619: 87 hospitals$1,619 – $2,153: 99 hospitals$1,619$2,153 – $2,862: 92 hospitals$2,862 – $3,805: 163 hospitals$2,862$3,805 – $5,058: 167 hospitals$5,058 – $6,724: 74 hospitals$5,058$6,724 – $8,939: 100 hospitals$6,724median $2,677price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,033 of 1,147 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$518$68989
$689$91666
$916$1,21896
$1,218$1,61987
$1,619$2,15399
$2,153$2,86292
$2,862$3,805163
$3,805$5,058167
$5,058$6,72474
$6,724$8,939100

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,677
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $2,677.

Alaska: median $4,249 across 10 hospitalsAK$4,249Maine: median $989 across 12 hospitalsME$989Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $947 across 10 hospitalsNH$947Washington: median $3,205 across 40 hospitalsWA$3,205Idaho: median $3,000 across 12 hospitalsID$3,000Montana: median $996 across 10 hospitalsMT$996North Dakota: median $3,104 across 10 hospitalsND$3,104Minnesota: median $1,358 across 35 hospitalsMN$1,358Illinois: median $1,255 across 28 hospitalsIL$1,255Wisconsin: median $2,927 across 46 hospitalsWI$2,927Michigan: median $918 across 40 hospitalsMI$918New York: median $3,387 across 56 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $2,712 across 11 hospitalsMA$2,712Oregon: median $1,571 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,571Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,470 across 37 hospitalsIA$1,470Indiana: median $896 across 15 hospitalsIN$896Ohio: median $2,734 across 24 hospitalsOH$2,734Pennsylvania: median $3,356 across 42 hospitalsPA$3,356New Jersey: median $3,819 across 35 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: median $4,319 across 11 hospitalsCT$4,319Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,529 across 105 hospitalsCA$4,529Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,530 across 22 hospitalsCO$2,530Nebraska: median $1,471 across 27 hospitalsNE$1,471Missouri: median $1,102 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,102Kentucky: median $1,728 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,728West Virginia: median $1,085 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,085Virginia: median $4,488 across 19 hospitalsVA$4,488Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $7,034 across 17 hospitalsAZ$7,034New Mexico: median $643 across 12 hospitalsNM$643Kansas: median $922 across 21 hospitalsKS$922Arkansas: median $1,534 across 11 hospitalsAR$1,534Tennessee: median $1,044 across 25 hospitalsTN$1,044North Carolina: median $4,645 across 18 hospitalsNC$4,645South Carolina: median $7,799 across 19 hospitalsSC$7,799Oklahoma: median $892 across 24 hospitalsOK$892Louisiana: median $1,811 across 22 hospitalsLA$1,811Mississippi: median $1,711 across 26 hospitalsMS$1,711Alabama: median $2,796 across 16 hospitalsAL$2,796Georgia: median $7,342 across 37 hospitalsGA$7,342Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,639 across 72 hospitalsTX$3,639Florida: median $4,238 across 42 hospitalsFL$4,238
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,677. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC19$7,799+191%$3,849 – $7,799
Georgia GA37$7,342+174%$1,921 – $10,930
Arizona AZ17$7,034+163%$3,078 – $16,218
North Carolina NC18$4,645+73%$2,363 – $4,645
California CA105$4,529+69%$2,449 – $7,566
Virginia VA19$4,488+68%$1,519 – $4,802
Connecticut CT11$4,319+61%$2,180 – $5,724
Alaska AK10$4,249+59%$2,696 – $5,037
Florida FL42$4,238+58%$2,384 – $7,272
New Jersey NJ35$3,819+43%$3,171 – $5,741
Texas TX72$3,639+36%$1,986 – $4,738
New York NY56$3,387+27%$1,134 – $6,192
Pennsylvania PA42$3,356+25%$308 – $3,868
Washington WA40$3,205+20%$1,070 – $6,318
North Dakota ND10$3,104+16%$1,668 – $4,731
Idaho ID12$3,000+12%$1,204 – $7,765
Wisconsin WI46$2,927+9%$1,658 – $3,148
Alabama AL16$2,796+4%$1,662 – $4,276
Ohio OH24$2,734+2%$544 – $7,065
Massachusetts MA11$2,712+1%$1,556 – $8,328
Colorado CO22$2,530−5%$842 – $4,145
Louisiana LA22$1,811−32%$1,418 – $3,114
Kentucky KY11$1,728−35%$591 – $2,789
Mississippi MS26$1,711−36%$1,379 – $3,708
Oregon OR35$1,571−41%$945 – $2,158
Arkansas AR11$1,534−43%$951 – $4,330
Nebraska NE27$1,471−45%$1,034 – $2,250
Iowa IA37$1,470−45%$796 – $3,843
Minnesota MN35$1,358−49%$698 – $2,990
Illinois IL28$1,255−53%$660 – $4,207
Missouri MO18$1,102−59%$781 – $4,412
West Virginia WV17$1,085−59%$424 – $5,286
Tennessee TN25$1,044−61%$779 – $3,349
Montana MT10$996−63%$594 – $1,780
Maine ME12$989−63%$608 – $2,273
New Hampshire NH10$947−65%$329 – $2,311
Kansas KS21$922−66%$670 – $2,467
Michigan MI40$918−66%$641 – $4,014
Indiana IN15$896−67%$660 – $1,833
Oklahoma OK24$892−67%$661 – $4,491
New Mexico NM12$643−76%$643 – $1,859
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $2,677.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care832$3,152$1,107 – $5,947
Children’s23$3,926$1,351 – $8,781
Critical access290$1,454$707 – $3,455
Ownership
For-profit102$4,149$1,085 – $8,939
Government215$1,738$878 – $4,449
Non-profit828$2,862$949 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system918$2,975$1,009 – $5,428
Independent229$1,659$749 – $3,858

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,217
Median cash price$2,677
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

770 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,862 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,983; most fall between $953 and $6,080.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 770 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
$660$1,214$2,862$4,823$7,799

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($660 vs $7,799).

Of the 822 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 770 gave a usable cash price; 27 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

1,147 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,241 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,147
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,241

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 Removal Foreign Body Deep Thigh/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, “Removal of deep foreign object from thigh or knee (CPT 27372) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27372-removal-of-deep-foreign-object-from-thigh-or-knee