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

Fracture of top of shinbone treated without setting

CPT 27530the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical care of a break in the upper end of the shinbone at the knee, managed without repositioning the bone.

Hospitals typically charge $477 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,572 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $488. Most fall between $265 and $791 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,572
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 1,572 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
$195$296$477$717$1,142

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($195 vs $1,142).

How the prices are spread

$133 – $171: 46 hospitals$133$171 – $219: 75 hospitals$219 – $281: 147 hospitals$219$281 – $361: 188 hospitals$361 – $464: 240 hospitals$361$464 – $595: 251 hospitals$595 – $764: 223 hospitals$595$764 – $981: 130 hospitals$981 – $1,259: 62 hospitals$981$1,259 – $1,616: 59 hospitals$1,259median $477price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,421 of 1,572 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$133$17146
$171$21975
$219$281147
$281$361188
$361$464240
$464$595251
$595$764223
$764$981130
$981$1,25962
$1,259$1,61659

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$477
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.89×

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 $477.

Alaska: median $529 across 12 hospitalsAK$529Maine: median $560 across 13 hospitalsME$560Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $265 across 11 hospitalsNH$265Washington: median $593 across 44 hospitalsWA$593Idaho: median $592 across 13 hospitalsID$592Montana: median $433 across 12 hospitalsMT$433North Dakota: median $470 across 16 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $525 across 62 hospitalsMN$525Illinois: median $539 across 55 hospitalsIL$539Wisconsin: median $478 across 61 hospitalsWI$478Michigan: median $377 across 54 hospitalsMI$377New York: median $519 across 73 hospitalsNY$519Massachusetts: median $889 across 40 hospitalsMA$889Oregon: median $557 across 36 hospitalsOR$557Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $564 across 22 hospitalsSD$564Iowa: median $571 across 52 hospitalsIA$571Indiana: median $415 across 38 hospitalsIN$415Ohio: median $521 across 60 hospitalsOH$521Pennsylvania: median $487 across 75 hospitalsPA$487New Jersey: median $600 across 33 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $463 across 15 hospitalsCT$463Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $567 across 112 hospitalsCA$567Utah: median $416 across 29 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $723 across 24 hospitalsCO$723Nebraska: median $676 across 38 hospitalsNE$676Missouri: median $485 across 27 hospitalsMO$485Kentucky: median $313 across 18 hospitalsKY$313West Virginia: median $324 across 25 hospitalsWV$324Virginia: median $380 across 29 hospitalsVA$380Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $367 across 15 hospitalsAZ$367New Mexico: median $419 across 13 hospitalsNM$419Kansas: median $541 across 41 hospitalsKS$541Arkansas: median $393 across 10 hospitalsAR$393Tennessee: median $136 across 25 hospitalsTN$136North Carolina: median $361 across 36 hospitalsNC$361South Carolina: median $462 across 22 hospitalsSC$462Oklahoma: median $283 across 28 hospitalsOK$283Louisiana: median $215 across 28 hospitalsLA$215Mississippi: median $163 across 24 hospitalsMS$163Alabama: median $384 across 14 hospitalsAL$384Georgia: median $315 across 31 hospitalsGA$315Hawaii: median $577 across 10 hospitalsHI$577Texas: median $398 across 89 hospitalsTX$398Florida: median $735 across 53 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $477. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA40$889+87%$461 – $1,950
Florida FL53$735+54%$420 – $1,584
Colorado CO24$723+52%$339 – $1,242
Nebraska NE38$676+42%$384 – $1,006
New Jersey NJ33$600+26%$266 – $5,110
Washington WA44$593+24%$478 – $722
Idaho ID13$592+24%$237 – $670
Hawaii HI10$577+21%$561 – $855
Iowa IA52$571+20%$374 – $763
California CA112$567+19%$380 – $1,260
South Dakota SD22$564+18%$384 – $774
Maine ME13$560+18%$262 – $1,085
Oregon OR36$557+17%$252 – $872
Kansas KS41$541+14%$386 – $712
Illinois IL55$539+13%$269 – $1,008
Alaska AK12$529+11%$290 – $1,079
Minnesota MN62$525+10%$263 – $645
Ohio OH60$521+9%$318 – $717
New York NY73$519+9%$284 – $768
Pennsylvania PA75$487+2%$242 – $792
Missouri MO27$485+2%$203 – $879
Wisconsin WI61$4780%$335 – $815
North Dakota ND16$470−1%$246 – $738
Connecticut CT15$463−3%$264 – $1,291
South Carolina SC22$462−3%$301 – $738
Montana MT12$433−9%$286 – $929
New Mexico NM13$419−12%$272 – $2,033
Utah UT29$416−13%$326 – $466
Indiana IN38$415−13%$216 – $747
Texas TX89$398−16%$232 – $674
Arkansas AR10$393−17%$195 – $668
Alabama AL14$384−19%$220 – $841
Virginia VA29$380−20%$107 – $488
Michigan MI54$377−21%$235 – $527
Arizona AZ15$367−23%$367 – $424
North Carolina NC36$361−24%$182 – $551
West Virginia WV25$324−32%$248 – $488
Georgia GA31$315−34%$285 – $627
Kentucky KY18$313−34%$222 – $478
Oklahoma OK28$283−41%$139 – $549
New Hampshire NH11$265−44%$199 – $459
Louisiana LA28$215−55%$142 – $377
Mississippi MS24$163−66%$90 – $377
Tennessee TN25$136−71%$109 – $507
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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 $477.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,078$452$252 – $768
Children’s43$841$360 – $1,137
Critical access451$486$320 – $738
Ownership
For-profit122$420$305 – $929
Government289$508$274 – $797
Non-profit1,161$466$262 – $763
System affiliation
Part of a system1,260$466$262 – $759
Independent312$496$281 – $863

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$752
Median cash price$477
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

1,143 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $500 and the average of the middle 60% is $516; most fall between $289 and $793.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,143 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
$207$324$500$724$1,242

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($207 vs $1,242).

Of the 1,227 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,143 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,572 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 1,695 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,572
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here67
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 — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code1,695

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 Cltx Tibial Fx Proximal W/O Manipulation.

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, “Fracture of top of shinbone treated without setting (CPT 27530) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27530-fracture-of-top-of-shinbone-treated-without-setting