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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Delayed reconstruction of the tendon below the kneecap

CPT 27381the billing code this page is about

Later or repeat open repair of a torn patellar tendon, which may include a tendon or tissue graft to rebuild it.

Hospitals typically charge $3,483 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 480 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,012. Most fall between $1,523 and $8,454 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
480
States
47
Filings dated
Jan 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 480 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
$1,169$1,723$3,483$7,906$11,724

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,169 vs $11,724).

How the prices are spread

$917 – $1,228: 34 hospitals$917$1,228 – $1,643: 49 hospitals$1,643 – $2,200: 78 hospitals$1,643$2,200 – $2,945: 32 hospitals$2,945 – $3,942: 38 hospitals$2,945$3,942 – $5,277: 52 hospitals$5,277 – $7,064: 40 hospitals$5,277$7,064 – $9,457: 52 hospitals$9,457 – $12,660: 40 hospitals$9,457$12,660 – $16,947: 20 hospitals$12,660median $3,483price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (435 of 480 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$917$1,22834
$1,228$1,64349
$1,643$2,20078
$2,200$2,94532
$2,945$3,94238
$3,942$5,27752
$5,277$7,06440
$7,064$9,45752
$9,457$12,66040
$12,660$16,94720

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,483
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 $3,483.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,810 across 13 hospitalsWA$2,810Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,650 across 21 hospitalsMN$4,650Illinois: median $1,906 across 17 hospitalsIL$1,906Wisconsin: median $4,146 across 30 hospitalsWI$4,146Michigan: median $2,125 across 31 hospitalsMI$2,125New York: median $8,454 across 30 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,523 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,523Nevada: 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: median $1,991 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,991Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,798 across 15 hospitalsOH$2,798Pennsylvania: median $10,468 across 10 hospitalsPA$10,468New Jersey: median $7,907 across 31 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,563 across 49 hospitalsCA$3,563Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,393 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,393Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,723 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,723Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $7,906 across 10 hospitalsGA$7,906Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,194 across 27 hospitalsTX$6,194Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,483. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA10$10,468+201%$6,943 – $13,461
New York NY30$8,454+143%$1,829 – $8,613
New Jersey NJ31$7,907+127%$5,339 – $9,214
Georgia GA10$7,906+127%$7,873 – $7,906
Texas TX27$6,194+78%$2,671 – $6,194
Minnesota MN21$4,650+34%$2,413 – $5,074
Wisconsin WI30$4,146+19%$4,085 – $5,884
California CA49$3,563+2%$2,662 – $9,839
Washington WA13$2,810−19%$1,523 – $8,429
Ohio OH15$2,798−20%$1,442 – $3,061
Michigan MI31$2,125−39%$1,307 – $4,146
Iowa IA18$1,991−43%$1,991 – $2,365
Illinois IL17$1,906−45%$981 – $3,672
Oklahoma OK13$1,723−51%$1,723 – $10,787
Oregon OR11$1,523−56%$1,523 – $1,821
West Virginia WV10$1,393−60%$871 – $2,332
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $3,483.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care360$4,146$1,723 – $9,286
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access108$2,176$1,251 – $4,650
Ownership
For-profit52$4,636$1,707 – $15,965
Government78$2,254$1,395 – $8,454
Non-profit348$3,563$1,555 – $8,429
System affiliation
Part of a system374$4,085$1,707 – $9,072
Independent106$2,409$1,442 – $5,990

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,846
Median cash price$3,483
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

250 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,413 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,964; most fall between $1,322 and $6,332.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 250 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
$982$1,502$2,413$6,194$9,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($982 vs $9,839).

Of the 285 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 250 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

480 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 548 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted480
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code548

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 Sutr Infrapatellar Tdn 2 Rcnstj W/Fscal/Tdn Grf.

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, “Delayed reconstruction of the tendon below the kneecap (CPT 27381) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27381-delayed-reconstruction-of-the-tendon-below-the-kneecap