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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 with traction

CPT 27532the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical treatment of a break in the upper end of the shinbone using skeletal traction through a pin, with or without repositioning the bone.

Hospitals typically charge $3,053 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,329 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,069. Most fall between $1,100 and $5,440 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,329
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,329 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
$818$1,314$3,053$5,159$7,911

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($818 vs $7,911).

How the prices are spread

$610 – $808: 65 hospitals$610$808 – $1,069: 128 hospitals$1,069 – $1,415: 106 hospitals$1,069$1,415 – $1,873: 103 hospitals$1,873 – $2,480: 112 hospitals$1,873$2,480 – $3,282: 130 hospitals$3,282 – $4,344: 188 hospitals$3,282$4,344 – $5,750: 201 hospitals$5,750 – $7,612: 90 hospitals$5,750$7,612 – $10,075: 76 hospitals$7,612median $3,053price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,199 of 1,329 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$610$80865
$808$1,069128
$1,069$1,415106
$1,415$1,873103
$1,873$2,480112
$2,480$3,282130
$3,282$4,344188
$4,344$5,750201
$5,750$7,61290
$7,612$10,07576

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,053
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.91×

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 $3,053.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,720 across 12 hospitalsME$1,720Vermont: 8 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 $3,977 across 36 hospitalsWA$3,977Idaho: median $3,296 across 15 hospitalsID$3,296Montana: median $1,141 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,141North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,475 across 35 hospitalsMN$2,475Illinois: median $3,158 across 51 hospitalsIL$3,158Wisconsin: median $3,058 across 43 hospitalsWI$3,058Michigan: median $1,708 across 49 hospitalsMI$1,708New York: median $3,884 across 68 hospitalsNY$3,884Massachusetts: median $4,111 across 31 hospitalsMA$4,111Oregon: median $1,848 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,848Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,817 across 26 hospitalsIA$1,817Indiana: median $870 across 25 hospitalsIN$870Ohio: median $3,767 across 51 hospitalsOH$3,767Pennsylvania: median $3,761 across 55 hospitalsPA$3,761New Jersey: median $4,233 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,233Connecticut: median $3,175 across 10 hospitalsCT$3,175Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 105 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: median $906 across 29 hospitalsUT$906Colorado: median $3,151 across 28 hospitalsCO$3,151Nebraska: median $1,552 across 24 hospitalsNE$1,552Missouri: median $2,213 across 24 hospitalsMO$2,213Kentucky: median $1,355 across 18 hospitalsKY$1,355West Virginia: median $2,199 across 19 hospitalsWV$2,199Virginia: median $1,739 across 41 hospitalsVA$1,739Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $723 across 14 hospitalsAZ$723New Mexico: median $1,100 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,100Kansas: median $1,363 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,363Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,482 across 18 hospitalsTN$1,482North Carolina: median $4,445 across 25 hospitalsNC$4,445South Carolina: median $5,273 across 37 hospitalsSC$5,273Oklahoma: median $1,982 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,982Louisiana: median $1,359 across 24 hospitalsLA$1,359Mississippi: median $2,083 across 25 hospitalsMS$2,083Alabama: median $2,920 across 13 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $4,923 across 29 hospitalsGA$4,923Hawaii: median $5,440 across 11 hospitalsHI$5,440Texas: median $3,407 across 95 hospitalsTX$3,407Florida: median $2,194 across 54 hospitalsFL$2,194
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,053. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI11$5,440+78%$4,156 – $7,747
South Carolina SC37$5,273+73%$2,882 – $5,995
Georgia GA29$4,923+61%$856 – $9,945
California CA105$4,914+61%$1,809 – $5,359
North Carolina NC25$4,445+46%$2,147 – $6,617
New Jersey NJ30$4,233+39%$3,591 – $5,855
Massachusetts MA31$4,111+35%$1,582 – $9,576
Washington WA36$3,977+30%$1,506 – $6,876
New York NY68$3,884+27%$1,075 – $8,442
Ohio OH51$3,767+23%$2,111 – $9,701
Pennsylvania PA55$3,761+23%$784 – $4,173
Texas TX95$3,407+12%$1,198 – $5,289
Idaho ID15$3,296+8%$800 – $8,372
Connecticut CT10$3,175+4%$1,488 – $4,888
Illinois IL51$3,158+3%$1,095 – $5,629
Colorado CO28$3,151+3%$1,520 – $8,676
Wisconsin WI43$3,0580%$2,861 – $5,386
Alabama AL13$2,920−4%$935 – $4,461
Minnesota MN35$2,475−19%$1,019 – $4,700
Missouri MO24$2,213−28%$998 – $3,670
West Virginia WV19$2,199−28%$900 – $3,956
Florida FL54$2,194−28%$1,394 – $7,272
Mississippi MS25$2,083−32%$610 – $3,472
Oklahoma OK19$1,982−35%$1,120 – $6,615
Oregon OR35$1,848−39%$1,037 – $5,083
Iowa IA26$1,817−40%$1,293 – $3,685
Virginia VA41$1,739−43%$1,394 – $4,878
Maine ME12$1,720−44%$1,020 – $5,535
Michigan MI49$1,708−44%$936 – $4,499
Nebraska NE24$1,552−49%$1,191 – $2,081
Tennessee TN18$1,482−51%$796 – $2,114
Kansas KS12$1,363−55%$711 – $3,811
Louisiana LA24$1,359−55%$917 – $3,579
Kentucky KY18$1,355−56%$624 – $3,784
Montana MT10$1,141−63%$448 – $1,854
New Mexico NM14$1,100−64%$706 – $3,113
Utah UT29$906−70%$864 – $1,331
Indiana IN25$870−72%$656 – $2,113
Arizona AZ14$723−76%$723 – $2,456
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $3,053.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,035$3,316$1,170 – $5,470
Children’s40$5,159$1,421 – $14,038
Critical access252$1,848$921 – $4,156
Ownership
For-profit129$3,113$920 – $6,367
Government191$2,147$991 – $5,168
Non-profit1,007$3,149$1,141 – $5,458
System affiliation
Part of a system1,115$3,316$1,134 – $5,565
Independent214$1,843$944 – $4,162

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,016
Median cash price$3,053
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

1,018 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,058 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,186; most fall between $1,178 and $5,535.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,018 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
$856$1,394$3,058$5,289$8,299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($856 vs $8,299).

Of the 1,107 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,018 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,329 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,448 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,329
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 code1,448

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/WO Manj W/Skel Tracj.

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 with traction (CPT 27532) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27532-fracture-of-top-of-shinbone-treated-with-traction