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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Wide removal of a soft tissue tumor of the leg, under 5 cm

CPT 27615the billing code this page is about

Extensive surgical removal of a tumor in the muscle or other soft tissue of the lower leg or ankle, together with a margin of surrounding tissue, for a tumor smaller than 5 centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $3,168 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 325 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,293. Most fall between $1,674 and $5,419 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
325
States
43
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 325 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
$1,187$1,813$3,168$5,325$6,588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,187 vs $6,588).

How the prices are spread

$991 – $1,220: 23 hospitals$991$1,220 – $1,502: 6 hospitals$1,502 – $1,850: 40 hospitals$1,502$1,850 – $2,278: 25 hospitals$2,278 – $2,805: 21 hospitals$2,278$2,805 – $3,455: 62 hospitals$3,455 – $4,254: 26 hospitals$3,455$4,254 – $5,239: 23 hospitals$5,239 – $6,451: 50 hospitals$5,239$6,451 – $7,944: 20 hospitals$6,451median $3,168price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (296 of 325 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$991$1,22023
$1,220$1,5026
$1,502$1,85040
$1,850$2,27825
$2,278$2,80521
$2,805$3,45562
$3,455$4,25426
$4,254$5,23923
$5,239$6,45150
$6,451$7,94420

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$3,168
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $3,168.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,941 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,941Wisconsin: median $5,325 across 20 hospitalsWI$5,325Michigan: median $1,813 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,813New York: median $3,387 across 25 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,866 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,866Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,522 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,522Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,373 across 10 hospitalsOH$2,373Pennsylvania: median $2,094 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,094New Jersey: median $3,819 across 30 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,406 across 25 hospitalsCA$6,406Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,670 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,670Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,588 across 10 hospitalsGA$6,588Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,012 across 22 hospitalsTX$3,012Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,168. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$6,588+108%$4,757 – $6,588
California CA25$6,406+102%$2,872 – $6,406
Wisconsin WI20$5,325+68%$5,009 – $5,325
New Jersey NJ30$3,819+21%$3,171 – $5,419
New York NY25$3,387+7%$1,674 – $3,626
Texas TX22$3,012−5%$3,012 – $3,218
Iowa IA14$2,522−20%$2,522 – $2,522
Ohio OH10$2,373−25%$1,710 – $3,802
Pennsylvania PA19$2,094−34%$628 – $5,393
Illinois IL15$1,941−39%$1,187 – $6,190
Oregon OR10$1,866−41%$1,866 – $3,369
Michigan MI22$1,813−43%$1,813 – $3,994
Oklahoma OK12$1,670−47%$1,670 – $1,670
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,168.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care267$3,168$1,674 – $5,855
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$3,369$1,729 – $5,325
Ownership
For-profit32$3,617$1,187 – $6,361
Government44$2,978$1,819 – $6,844
Non-profit248$3,168$1,670 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system269$3,369$1,707 – $6,163
Independent56$2,206$1,635 – $3,802

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,742
Median cash price$3,168
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

196 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,012 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,654; most fall between $1,670 and $6,406.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 196 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
$1,187$1,670$3,012$5,325$7,106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,187 vs $7,106).

Of the 223 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 196 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

325 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 362 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted325
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code362

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 23, 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 Rad Resection Tumor Soft Tissue Leg/Ankle <5cm.

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, “Wide removal of a soft tissue tumor of the leg, under 5 cm (CPT 27615) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27615-wide-removal-of-a-soft-tissue-tumor-of-the-leg-under-5-cm