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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur)

Kneecap fracture treated without setting

CPT 27520the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical care of a broken kneecap, managed without repositioning the bone and without an incision.

Hospitals typically charge $455 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,587 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $474. Most fall between $252 and $796 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,587
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,587 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
$187$280$455$717$1,126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($187 vs $1,126).

How the prices are spread

$128 – $165: 48 hospitals$128$165 – $212: 75 hospitals$212 – $272: 182 hospitals$212$272 – $350: 180 hospitals$350 – $450: 222 hospitals$350$450 – $578: 221 hospitals$578 – $743: 211 hospitals$578$743 – $955: 146 hospitals$955 – $1,228: 99 hospitals$955$1,228 – $1,579: 45 hospitals$1,228median $455price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,429 of 1,587 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$128$16548
$165$21275
$212$272182
$272$350180
$350$450222
$450$578221
$578$743211
$743$955146
$955$1,22899
$1,228$1,57945

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$455
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.81×

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 $455.

Alaska: median $586 across 12 hospitalsAK$586Maine: median $455 across 14 hospitalsME$455Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $364 across 13 hospitalsNH$364Washington: median $587 across 49 hospitalsWA$587Idaho: median $620 across 16 hospitalsID$620Montana: median $502 across 16 hospitalsMT$502North Dakota: median $472 across 15 hospitalsND$472Minnesota: median $497 across 51 hospitalsMN$497Illinois: median $398 across 57 hospitalsIL$398Wisconsin: median $872 across 63 hospitalsWI$872Michigan: median $340 across 52 hospitalsMI$340New York: median $390 across 70 hospitalsNY$390Massachusetts: median $948 across 38 hospitalsMA$948Oregon: median $547 across 36 hospitalsOR$547Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $569 across 10 hospitalsWY$569South Dakota: median $678 across 18 hospitalsSD$678Iowa: median $475 across 55 hospitalsIA$475Indiana: median $345 across 35 hospitalsIN$345Ohio: median $416 across 61 hospitalsOH$416Pennsylvania: median $408 across 66 hospitalsPA$408New Jersey: median $1,288 across 32 hospitalsNJ$1,288Connecticut: median $406 across 12 hospitalsCT$406Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $610 across 105 hospitalsCA$610Utah: median $413 across 30 hospitalsUT$413Colorado: median $582 across 32 hospitalsCO$582Nebraska: median $497 across 37 hospitalsNE$497Missouri: median $485 across 29 hospitalsMO$485Kentucky: median $263 across 19 hospitalsKY$263West Virginia: median $319 across 26 hospitalsWV$319Virginia: median $380 across 36 hospitalsVA$380Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $388 across 18 hospitalsAZ$388New Mexico: median $382 across 11 hospitalsNM$382Kansas: median $465 across 36 hospitalsKS$465Arkansas: median $393 across 11 hospitalsAR$393Tennessee: median $109 across 25 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $399 across 29 hospitalsNC$399South Carolina: median $489 across 38 hospitalsSC$489Oklahoma: median $506 across 32 hospitalsOK$506Louisiana: median $217 across 26 hospitalsLA$217Mississippi: median $190 across 31 hospitalsMS$190Alabama: median $373 across 12 hospitalsAL$373Georgia: median $431 across 37 hospitalsGA$431Hawaii: median $577 across 10 hospitalsHI$577Texas: median $421 across 104 hospitalsTX$421Florida: median $472 across 36 hospitalsFL$472
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $455. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$1,288+183%$266 – $5,339
Massachusetts MA38$948+108%$414 – $1,852
Wisconsin WI63$872+92%$381 – $1,002
South Dakota SD18$678+49%$384 – $774
Idaho ID16$620+36%$252 – $670
California CA105$610+34%$383 – $1,126
Washington WA49$587+29%$478 – $707
Alaska AK12$586+29%$403 – $1,299
Colorado CO32$582+28%$305 – $949
Hawaii HI10$577+27%$573 – $765
Wyoming WY10$569+25%$370 – $825
Oregon OR36$547+20%$252 – $871
Oklahoma OK32$506+11%$247 – $567
Montana MT16$502+10%$304 – $785
Nebraska NE37$497+9%$324 – $770
Minnesota MN51$497+9%$262 – $686
South Carolina SC38$489+8%$249 – $679
Missouri MO29$485+6%$190 – $677
Iowa IA55$475+4%$258 – $810
North Dakota ND15$472+4%$246 – $687
Florida FL36$472+4%$420 – $969
Kansas KS36$465+2%$341 – $744
Maine ME14$4550%$194 – $696
Georgia GA37$431−5%$256 – $4,862
Texas TX104$421−7%$232 – $798
Ohio OH61$416−9%$324 – $717
Utah UT30$413−9%$316 – $442
Pennsylvania PA66$408−10%$252 – $759
Connecticut CT12$406−11%$238 – $1,690
North Carolina NC29$399−12%$125 – $436
Illinois IL57$398−13%$229 – $834
Arkansas AR11$393−14%$195 – $520
New York NY70$390−14%$284 – $763
Arizona AZ18$388−15%$388 – $1,220
New Mexico NM11$382−16%$286 – $462
Virginia VA36$380−16%$109 – $488
Alabama AL12$373−18%$164 – $569
New Hampshire NH13$364−20%$82 – $524
Indiana IN35$345−24%$223 – $692
Michigan MI52$340−25%$248 – $745
West Virginia WV26$319−30%$284 – $488
Kentucky KY19$263−42%$216 – $554
Louisiana LA26$217−52%$127 – $321
Mississippi MS31$190−58%$89 – $335
Tennessee TN25$109−76%$107 – $305
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $455.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,098$436$246 – $784
Children’s41$886$279 – $1,108
Critical access446$488$300 – $761
Ownership
For-profit129$500$252 – $970
Government295$455$243 – $783
Non-profit1,161$450$252 – $784
System affiliation
Part of a system1,263$452$250 – $792
Independent324$463$260 – $801

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$745
Median cash price$455
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

1,163 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $480 and the average of the middle 60% is $493; most fall between $259 and $801.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,163 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
$193$291$480$728$1,126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($193 vs $1,126).

Of the 1,247 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,163 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,587 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,710 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,587
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
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 — excluded58
Hospitals that filed this code1,710

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 lower extremity (other than hip or femur) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Closed Rx Patella Fx.

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, “Kneecap fracture treated without setting (CPT 27520) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27520-kneecap-fracture-treated-without-setting