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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Pressure-release incision in one thigh or knee compartment

CPT 27496the billing code this page is about

Surgery that opens the tough tissue covering one muscle compartment of the thigh or knee to relieve dangerous pressure inside it.

Hospitals typically charge $2,469 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 364 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,553. Most fall between $898 and $5,317 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
364
States
43
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 364 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
$679$1,011$2,469$4,499$8,351

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($679 vs $8,351).

How the prices are spread

$551 – $728: 26 hospitals$551$728 – $960: 32 hospitals$960 – $1,267: 50 hospitals$960$1,267 – $1,672: 26 hospitals$1,672 – $2,207: 18 hospitals$1,672$2,207 – $2,912: 41 hospitals$2,912 – $3,843: 38 hospitals$2,912$3,843 – $5,071: 39 hospitals$5,071 – $6,692: 25 hospitals$5,071$6,692 – $8,831: 41 hospitals$6,692median $2,469price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (336 of 364 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$551$72826
$728$96032
$960$1,26750
$1,267$1,67226
$1,672$2,20718
$2,207$2,91241
$2,912$3,84338
$3,843$5,07139
$5,071$6,69225
$6,692$8,83141

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,469
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.74×

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 $2,469.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: median $6,309 across 12 hospitalsWA$6,309Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals 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 $1,041 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,041Wisconsin: median $2,694 across 26 hospitalsWI$2,694Michigan: median $1,011 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,011New York: median $3,840 across 28 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,834 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,834Nevada: 2 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 $1,338 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,338Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,763 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,763Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $3,986 across 28 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,700 across 42 hospitalsCA$6,700Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 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 $745 across 12 hospitalsOK$745Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,778 across 24 hospitalsTX$2,778Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,469. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA42$6,700+171%$2,457 – $8,831
Washington WA12$6,309+156%$3,814 – $7,047
New Jersey NJ28$3,986+61%$3,594 – $5,654
New York NY28$3,840+56%$1,083 – $4,084
Texas TX24$2,778+13%$1,242 – $4,193
Wisconsin WI26$2,694+9%$2,469 – $2,742
Pennsylvania PA19$2,382−3%$345 – $5,486
Oregon OR18$1,834−26%$1,033 – $8,870
Ohio OH14$1,763−29%$986 – $2,507
Iowa IA16$1,338−46%$1,338 – $1,338
Illinois IL12$1,041−58%$679 – $1,168
Michigan MI27$1,011−59%$781 – $2,469
Oklahoma OK12$745−70%$745 – $745
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $2,469.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care291$2,469$871 – $5,419
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$2,469$986 – $4,592
Ownership
For-profit27$1,981$679 – $4,720
Government41$1,167$865 – $3,840
Non-profit296$2,469$1,011 – $5,805
System affiliation
Part of a system311$2,694$899 – $5,805
Independent53$1,403$872 – $3,257

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,267
Median cash price$2,469
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

225 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,427 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,587; most fall between $787 and $6,740.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 225 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
$679$1,033$2,427$5,805$8,831

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($679 vs $8,831).

Of the 247 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 225 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

364 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 392 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted364
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code392

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Decompression Fasciotomy Thigh&/Knee 1 Component.

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, “Pressure-release incision in one thigh or knee compartment (CPT 27496) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27496-pressure-release-incision-in-one-thigh-or-knee-compartment