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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty knee

Partial knee resurfacing of the upper shinbone surface

CPT 27440the billing code this page is about

Open reshaping of the worn top surface of the shinbone within the knee joint, without a full knee replacement.

Hospitals typically charge $2,851 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 222 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,508. Most fall between $1,318 and $15,070 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
222
States
39
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 222 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
$906$1,443$2,851$15,070$16,052

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($906 vs $16,052).

How the prices are spread

$615 – $868: 11 hospitals$615$868 – $1,226: 15 hospitals$1,226 – $1,730: 45 hospitals$1,226$1,730 – $2,443: 27 hospitals$2,443 – $3,449: 9 hospitals$2,443$3,449 – $4,869: 15 hospitals$4,869 – $6,874: 10 hospitals$4,869$6,874 – $9,705: 5 hospitals$9,705 – $13,701: 2 hospitals$9,705$13,701 – $19,343: 64 hospitals$13,701median $2,851price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (203 of 222 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$615$86811
$868$1,22615
$1,226$1,73045
$1,730$2,44327
$2,443$3,4499
$3,449$4,86915
$4,869$6,87410
$6,874$9,7055
$9,705$13,7012
$13,701$19,34364

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$13,117
Median cash price$2,851
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.22×

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 $2,851.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,488 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,488Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,464 across 10 hospitalsMI$1,464New York: median $15,226 across 22 hospitalsNY$15,226Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,962 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,962Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $589 across 15 hospitalsPA$589New Jersey: median $6,839 across 23 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $15,070 across 23 hospitalsCA$15,070Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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 $1,318 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,318Louisiana: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 5 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 $2,851. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY22$15,226+434%$1,989 – $15,239
California CA23$15,070+429%$15,070 – $15,070
New Jersey NJ23$6,839+140%$4,881 – $14,254
Iowa IA14$1,962−31%$1,962 – $1,962
Illinois IL12$1,488−48%$615 – $1,962
Michigan MI10$1,464−49%$1,464 – $17,654
Oklahoma OK13$1,318−54%$1,318 – $25,896
Pennsylvania PA15$589−79%$498 – $15,086
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,851.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care182$3,096$1,318 – $15,086
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$2,376$1,397 – $19,343
Ownership
For-profit26$3,599$906 – $19,343
Government33$2,057$1,397 – $15,226
Non-profit163$2,995$1,318 – $15,070
System affiliation
Part of a system176$3,786$1,318 – $15,086
Independent46$1,717$1,290 – $9,088

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,702
Median cash price$2,851
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

119 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,962 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,163; most fall between $1,290 and $15,070.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 119 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
$893$1,318$1,962$15,070$15,168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($893 vs $15,168).

Of the 130 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 119 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

222 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 250 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted222
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code250

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 5, 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 Arthroplasty knee family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Arthroplasty Tibial Plateau.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Partial knee resurfacing of the upper shinbone surface (CPT 27440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27440-partial-knee-resurfacing-of-the-upper-shinbone-surface