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

Putting a dislocated knee back in place without anesthesia

CPT 27550the billing code this page is about

Manual repositioning of a knee that has slipped out of joint, done without the use of anesthesia and without surgery.

Hospitals typically charge $525 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,901 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $551. Most fall between $272 and $973 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,901
States
49
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 1,901 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
$206$300$525$851$1,460

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($206 vs $1,460).

How the prices are spread

$157 – $202: 80 hospitals$157$202 – $262: 156 hospitals$262 – $338: 239 hospitals$262$338 – $437: 179 hospitals$437 – $564: 265 hospitals$437$564 – $729: 264 hospitals$729 – $942: 226 hospitals$729$942 – $1,217: 152 hospitals$1,217 – $1,573: 81 hospitals$1,217$1,573 – $2,033: 70 hospitals$1,573median $525price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,712 of 1,901 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$157$20280
$202$262156
$262$338239
$338$437179
$437$564265
$564$729264
$729$942226
$942$1,217152
$1,217$1,57381
$1,573$2,03370

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$525
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $525.

Alaska: median $1,079 across 13 hospitalsAK$1,079Maine: median $368 across 17 hospitalsME$368Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $322 across 16 hospitalsNH$322Washington: median $718 across 58 hospitalsWA$718Idaho: median $670 across 15 hospitalsID$670Montana: median $562 across 15 hospitalsMT$562North Dakota: median $458 across 16 hospitalsND$458Minnesota: median $593 across 63 hospitalsMN$593Illinois: median $482 across 86 hospitalsIL$482Wisconsin: median $550 across 62 hospitalsWI$550Michigan: median $484 across 57 hospitalsMI$484New York: median $568 across 80 hospitalsNY$568Massachusetts: median $825 across 36 hospitalsMA$825Oregon: median $1,010 across 42 hospitalsOR$1,010Nevada: median $734 across 14 hospitalsNV$734Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $689 across 13 hospitalsSD$689Iowa: median $535 across 52 hospitalsIA$535Indiana: median $302 across 37 hospitalsIN$302Ohio: median $521 across 68 hospitalsOH$521Pennsylvania: median $610 across 88 hospitalsPA$610New Jersey: median $600 across 40 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $668 across 17 hospitalsCT$668Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $825 across 123 hospitalsCA$825Utah: median $416 across 28 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $809 across 40 hospitalsCO$809Nebraska: median $482 across 32 hospitalsNE$482Missouri: median $576 across 37 hospitalsMO$576Kentucky: median $320 across 28 hospitalsKY$320West Virginia: median $502 across 29 hospitalsWV$502Virginia: median $263 across 50 hospitalsVA$263Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $600 across 20 hospitalsAZ$600New Mexico: median $409 across 19 hospitalsNM$409Kansas: median $528 across 44 hospitalsKS$528Arkansas: median $280 across 16 hospitalsAR$280Tennessee: median $260 across 38 hospitalsTN$260North Carolina: median $401 across 37 hospitalsNC$401South Carolina: median $474 across 38 hospitalsSC$474Oklahoma: median $434 across 44 hospitalsOK$434Louisiana: median $258 across 35 hospitalsLA$258Mississippi: median $205 across 41 hospitalsMS$205Alabama: median $368 across 20 hospitalsAL$368Georgia: median $603 across 48 hospitalsGA$603Hawaii: median $932 across 15 hospitalsHI$932Texas: median $546 across 126 hospitalsTX$546Florida: median $735 across 64 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $525. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK13$1,079+105%$250 – $3,002
Oregon OR42$1,010+92%$517 – $1,533
Hawaii HI15$932+78%$573 – $1,064
California CA123$825+57%$445 – $1,148
Massachusetts MA36$825+57%$457 – $1,929
Colorado CO40$809+54%$420 – $1,141
Florida FL64$735+40%$420 – $896
Nevada NV14$734+40%$270 – $2,390
Washington WA58$718+37%$438 – $1,146
South Dakota SD13$689+31%$396 – $734
Idaho ID15$670+28%$442 – $1,194
Connecticut CT17$668+27%$264 – $1,593
Pennsylvania PA88$610+16%$281 – $1,961
Georgia GA48$603+15%$213 – $901
Arizona AZ20$600+14%$361 – $932
New Jersey NJ40$600+14%$283 – $4,627
Minnesota MN63$593+13%$240 – $666
Missouri MO37$576+10%$263 – $827
New York NY80$568+8%$284 – $1,019
Montana MT15$562+7%$361 – $856
Wisconsin WI62$550+5%$450 – $761
Texas TX126$546+4%$280 – $817
Iowa IA52$535+2%$295 – $1,038
Kansas KS44$528+1%$328 – $971
Ohio OH68$521−1%$262 – $774
West Virginia WV29$502−4%$292 – $720
Michigan MI57$484−8%$294 – $696
Nebraska NE32$482−8%$320 – $1,048
Illinois IL86$482−8%$281 – $872
South Carolina SC38$474−10%$385 – $606
North Dakota ND16$458−13%$388 – $536
Oklahoma OK44$434−17%$229 – $712
Utah UT28$416−21%$363 – $466
New Mexico NM19$409−22%$182 – $1,423
North Carolina NC37$401−24%$215 – $633
Maine ME17$368−30%$262 – $1,032
Alabama AL20$368−30%$212 – $596
New Hampshire NH16$322−39%$200 – $857
Kentucky KY28$320−39%$249 – $607
Indiana IN37$302−43%$191 – $747
Arkansas AR16$280−47%$195 – $501
Virginia VA50$263−50%$202 – $497
Tennessee TN38$260−50%$202 – $362
Louisiana LA35$258−51%$157 – $480
Mississippi MS41$205−61%$124 – $307
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $525.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,365$501$264 – $901
Children’s38$1,055$627 – $1,501
Critical access496$555$295 – $1,038
Ownership
For-profit181$600$260 – $1,248
Government356$514$284 – $961
Non-profit1,362$521$275 – $945
System affiliation
Part of a system1,518$520$270 – $970
Independent383$555$298 – $1,006

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$868
Median cash price$525
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

1,423 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $530 and the average of the middle 60% is $546; most fall between $277 and $927.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,423 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
$206$308$530$817$1,328

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($206 vs $1,328).

Of the 1,526 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,423 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 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,901 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,022 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,901
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code2,022

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 Closed Tx Knee Dislocation W/O Anesthesia.

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, “Putting a dislocated knee back in place without anesthesia (CPT 27550) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27550-putting-a-dislocated-knee-back-in-place-without-anesthesia