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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Upper shin bone cut to straighten leg, before growth ends

CPT 27455the billing code this page is about

Surgery that cuts the upper shin bone, and often the calf bone, to correct bowleg or knock-knee in a patient whose growth plates are still open.

Hospitals typically charge $2,745 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 250 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,358. Most fall between $1,560 and $7,413 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
250
States
42
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 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
$886$1,622$2,745$6,275$10,290

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($886 vs $10,290).

How the prices are spread

$732 – $989: 15 hospitals$732$989 – $1,335: 8 hospitals$1,335 – $1,802: 51 hospitals$1,335$1,802 – $2,433: 32 hospitals$2,433 – $3,285: 30 hospitals$2,433$3,285 – $4,435: 15 hospitals$4,435 – $5,988: 24 hospitals$4,435$5,988 – $8,085: 20 hospitals$8,085 – $10,916: 23 hospitals$8,085$10,916 – $14,738: 11 hospitals$10,916median $2,745price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (229 of 250 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$732$98915
$989$1,3358
$1,335$1,80251
$1,802$2,43332
$2,433$3,28530
$3,285$4,43515
$4,435$5,98824
$5,988$8,08520
$8,085$10,91623
$10,916$14,73811

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$2,745
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.37×

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 $2,745.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,905 across 10 hospitalsID$6,905Montana: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,551 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,551Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $3,192 across 23 hospitalsMI$3,192New York: median $7,413 across 17 hospitalsNY$7,413Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,780 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,780Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,341 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,341Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $732 across 17 hospitalsPA$732New Jersey: median $5,741 across 19 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 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: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,582 across 11 hospitalsOK$1,582Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 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: 7 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 $2,745. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY17$7,413+170%$1,528 – $8,613
Idaho ID10$6,905+152%$2,745 – $14,738
New Jersey NJ19$5,741+109%$4,350 – $7,559
Michigan MI23$3,192+16%$1,675 – $3,192
Iowa IA18$2,341−15%$1,937 – $2,341
Oregon OR11$1,780−35%$1,780 – $3,184
Oklahoma OK11$1,582−42%$1,582 – $1,582
Illinois IL13$1,551−44%$735 – $2,341
Pennsylvania PA17$732−73%$597 – $12,525
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,745.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care191$2,771$1,574 – $7,413
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$2,940$1,622 – $5,721
Ownership
For-profit32$5,038$1,582 – $10,468
Government44$2,344$1,669 – $7,341
Non-profit173$2,771$1,528 – $7,053
System affiliation
Part of a system187$3,184$1,582 – $7,527
Independent63$2,315$1,497 – $6,665

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,965
Median cash price$2,745
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

135 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,341 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,019; most fall between $1,399 and $10,290.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 135 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
$1,001$1,582$2,341$5,721$14,738

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,001 vs $14,738).

Of the 165 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 135 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

250 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 288 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted250
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 code288

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 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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Osteot Prox Tibia Fib Exc/Osteot Before Epiphysl.

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, “Upper shin bone cut to straighten leg, before growth ends (CPT 27455) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27455-upper-shin-bone-cut-to-straighten-leg-before-growth-ends