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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Pressure-release incisions in several thigh or knee areas

CPT 27498the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $1,773 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 321 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,987. Most fall between $1,088 and $3,579 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
321
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 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 321 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
$924$1,179$1,773$3,274$5,247

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($924 vs $5,247).

How the prices are spread

$656 – $812: 11 hospitals$656$812 – $1,006: 23 hospitals$1,006 – $1,245: 55 hospitals$1,006$1,245 – $1,542: 22 hospitals$1,542 – $1,910: 53 hospitals$1,542$1,910 – $2,366: 37 hospitals$2,366 – $2,930: 11 hospitals$2,366$2,930 – $3,628: 33 hospitals$3,628 – $4,493: 13 hospitals$3,628$4,493 – $5,565: 34 hospitals$4,493median $1,773price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (292 of 321 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$656$81211
$812$1,00623
$1,006$1,24555
$1,245$1,54222
$1,542$1,91053
$1,910$2,36637
$2,366$2,93011
$2,930$3,62833
$3,628$4,49313
$4,493$5,56534

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,773
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

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 $1,773.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,400 across 10 hospitalsID$3,400Montana: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,252 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,252Wisconsin: median $3,269 across 16 hospitalsWI$3,269Michigan: median $1,237 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,237New York: median $1,894 across 29 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,231 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,231Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $1,609 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,609Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,833 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,833Pennsylvania: median $506 across 18 hospitalsPA$506New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,247 across 26 hospitalsCA$5,247Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 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 $1,088 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,088Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals 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 $3,579 across 20 hospitalsTX$3,579Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,773. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$5,247+196%$1,644 – $5,247
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+114%$1,771 – $5,419
Texas TX20$3,579+102%$2,133 – $3,579
Idaho ID10$3,400+92%$2,814 – $4,436
Wisconsin WI16$3,269+84%$3,269 – $5,565
New York NY29$1,894+7%$1,297 – $1,985
Ohio OH13$1,833+3%$1,176 – $2,252
Iowa IA17$1,609−9%$1,609 – $1,609
Illinois IL13$1,252−29%$952 – $1,609
Michigan MI23$1,237−30%$1,104 – $1,269
Oregon OR11$1,231−31%$1,231 – $2,190
Oklahoma OK13$1,088−39%$1,088 – $2,892
Pennsylvania PA18$506−71%$412 – $2,706
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not 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
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,773.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care260$1,795$1,088 – $3,579
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access52$1,625$1,065 – $3,579
Ownership
For-profit27$2,320$952 – $3,579
Government48$1,358$1,029 – $1,894
Non-profit246$1,894$1,088 – $3,814
System affiliation
Part of a system261$1,885$1,088 – $3,643
Independent60$1,457$1,029 – $2,451

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,341
Median cash price$1,773
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

183 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,609 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,965; most fall between $1,032 and $3,579.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 183 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
$942$1,088$1,609$3,579$5,247

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($942 vs $5,247).

Of the 203 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 183 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 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

321 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 356 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted321
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code356

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 Dcmprn Fasciotomy Thigh&/Knee Mlt Compartments.

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 incisions in several thigh or knee areas (CPT 27498) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27498-pressure-release-incisions-in-several-thigh-or-knee-areas