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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Surgery to release pressure in front or outer lower leg

CPT 27600the billing code this page is about

Cutting the tough tissue covering the muscles of the lower leg to relieve dangerous pressure, limited to the front and/or outer compartments.

Hospitals typically charge $2,441 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 642 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,627. Most fall between $819 and $5,805 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
642
States
48
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 642 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
$645$995$2,441$4,957$8,014

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($645 vs $8,014).

How the prices are spread

$481 – $648: 35 hospitals$481$648 – $873: 71 hospitals$873 – $1,176: 73 hospitals$873$1,176 – $1,585: 60 hospitals$1,585 – $2,136: 37 hospitals$1,585$2,136 – $2,878: 34 hospitals$2,878 – $3,879: 93 hospitals$2,878$3,879 – $5,227: 55 hospitals$5,227 – $7,044: 57 hospitals$5,227$7,044 – $9,492: 64 hospitals$7,044median $2,441price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (579 of 642 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$481$64835
$648$87371
$873$1,17673
$1,176$1,58560
$1,585$2,13637
$2,136$2,87834
$2,878$3,87993
$3,879$5,22755
$5,227$7,04457
$7,044$9,49264

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,441
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $2,441.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,977 across 21 hospitalsWA$3,977Idaho: median $2,849 across 12 hospitalsID$2,849Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,713 across 25 hospitalsMN$1,713Illinois: median $1,662 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,662Wisconsin: median $1,972 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,972Michigan: median $1,022 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,022New York: median $3,840 across 36 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,324 across 28 hospitalsOR$1,324Nevada: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $995 across 24 hospitalsIA$995Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,646 across 27 hospitalsOH$4,646Pennsylvania: median $5,038 across 15 hospitalsPA$5,038New Jersey: median $3,821 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,821Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,596 across 75 hospitalsCA$4,596Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,306 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,306Missouri: median $726 across 12 hospitalsMO$726Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $837 across 10 hospitalsTN$837North Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $659 across 17 hospitalsOK$659Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,653 across 16 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,408 across 42 hospitalsTX$3,408Florida: median $5,301 across 16 hospitalsFL$5,301
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,441. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA16$6,653+173%$5,737 – $6,653
Florida FL16$5,301+117%$3,257 – $9,492
Pennsylvania PA15$5,038+106%$2,382 – $6,637
Ohio OH27$4,646+90%$1,068 – $9,701
California CA75$4,596+88%$2,427 – $8,014
Washington WA21$3,977+63%$1,022 – $6,876
New York NY36$3,840+57%$1,190 – $4,084
New Jersey NJ31$3,821+57%$3,546 – $5,339
Texas TX42$3,408+40%$3,408 – $3,579
Idaho ID12$2,849+17%$905 – $8,372
Wisconsin WI31$1,972−19%$1,332 – $3,455
Minnesota MN25$1,713−30%$844 – $1,771
Illinois IL33$1,662−32%$743 – $7,103
Oregon OR28$1,324−46%$741 – $7,938
Nebraska NE10$1,306−46%$601 – $4,501
Michigan MI33$1,022−58%$895 – $1,332
Iowa IA24$995−59%$722 – $995
Tennessee TN10$837−66%$450 – $4,091
Missouri MO12$726−70%$642 – $9,060
Oklahoma OK17$659−73%$659 – $2,445
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,441.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care495$3,129$905 – $6,653
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access130$1,324$697 – $3,455
Ownership
For-profit63$3,408$893 – $9,502
Government99$1,085$722 – $4,015
Non-profit479$2,495$905 – $6,447
System affiliation
Part of a system512$3,037$905 – $6,653
Independent130$1,231$754 – $3,553

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,192
Median cash price$2,441
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

408 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,445 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,704; most fall between $741 and $6,653.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 408 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
$513$819$2,445$5,520$8,014

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($513 vs $8,014).

Of the 449 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 408 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

642 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 710 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted642
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code710

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 Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Decompress Ant/Lat Leg Cmpart.

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 to release pressure in front or outer lower leg (CPT 27600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27600-surgery-to-release-pressure-in-front-or-outer-lower-leg