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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of hip and femur

Surgery for thighbone fracture just above the knee

CPT 27511the billing code this page is about

Open surgical repair of a break across the lower thighbone that does not extend into the knee joint surface, with or without internal or external hardware.

Hospitals typically charge $2,691 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 422 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,889. Most fall between $1,422 and $5,339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
422
States
47
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 422 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
$1,040$1,669$2,691$5,080$10,147

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,040 vs $10,147).

How the prices are spread

$645 – $892: 9 hospitals$645$892 – $1,235: 34 hospitals$1,235 – $1,709: 47 hospitals$1,235$1,709 – $2,365: 60 hospitals$2,365 – $3,272: 89 hospitals$2,365$3,272 – $4,529: 48 hospitals$4,529 – $6,267: 47 hospitals$4,529$6,267 – $8,673: 13 hospitals$8,673 – $12,003: 18 hospitals$8,673$12,003 – $16,611: 16 hospitals$12,003median $2,691price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (381 of 422 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$645$8929
$892$1,23534
$1,235$1,70947
$1,709$2,36560
$2,365$3,27289
$3,272$4,52948
$4,529$6,26747
$6,267$8,67313
$8,673$12,00318
$12,003$16,61116

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$13,117
Median cash price$2,691
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.21×

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 $2,691.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,145 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,145Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,329 across 21 hospitalsMN$4,329Illinois: median $1,898 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,898Wisconsin: median $5,190 across 35 hospitalsWI$5,190Michigan: median $2,691 across 31 hospitalsMI$2,691New York: median $3,049 across 25 hospitalsNY$3,049Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,834 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,834Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,460 across 26 hospitalsIA$2,460Indiana: median $1,422 across 10 hospitalsIN$1,422Ohio: median $2,580 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,580Pennsylvania: median $729 across 18 hospitalsPA$729New Jersey: median $5,741 across 20 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,951 across 16 hospitalsCA$1,951Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,062 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,062Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 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 $2,090 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,090Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,286 across 12 hospitalsTX$3,286Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,691. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ20$5,741+113%$4,350 – $16,626
Wisconsin WI35$5,190+93%$3,668 – $7,505
Minnesota MN21$4,329+61%$2,263 – $5,686
Texas TX12$3,286+22%$2,066 – $4,136
New York NY25$3,049+13%$1,631 – $13,117
Michigan MI31$2,6910%$1,872 – $5,190
Ohio OH13$2,580−4%$1,520 – $4,321
Iowa IA26$2,460−9%$1,943 – $2,781
Washington WA11$2,145−20%$1,012 – $3,201
Oklahoma OK13$2,090−22%$2,090 – $2,389
California CA16$1,951−27%$937 – $2,652
Illinois IL15$1,898−29%$1,422 – $4,255
Oregon OR18$1,834−32%$1,526 – $3,279
Indiana IN10$1,422−47%$1,422 – $2,279
West Virginia WV11$1,062−61%$1,037 – $2,481
Pennsylvania PA18$729−73%$617 – $6,078
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $2,691.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care270$2,691$1,485 – $5,855
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access141$2,507$1,422 – $5,190
Ownership
For-profit35$4,136$1,422 – $11,231
Government78$2,279$1,589 – $3,677
Non-profit308$2,691$1,422 – $5,348
System affiliation
Part of a system311$2,727$1,422 – $5,686
Independent111$2,366$1,534 – $4,359

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,320
Median cash price$2,691
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

216 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,407 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,460; most fall between $1,422 and $4,941.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 216 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
$1,048$1,516$2,407$4,027$6,347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,048 vs $6,347).

Of the 253 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 216 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

422 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 497 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted422
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code497

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of hip and femur family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Tx Femoral Supracondylar Fracture W/O Xtn.

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, “Surgery for thighbone fracture just above the knee (CPT 27511) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27511-surgery-for-thighbone-fracture-just-above-the-knee