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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Open removal of the ankle joint lining

CPT 27625the billing code this page is about

Open surgery on the ankle that removes inflamed or diseased joint lining tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $2,366 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 445 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,635. Most fall between $1,028 and $5,253 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
445
States
46
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 445 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
$736$1,140$2,366$4,330$9,316

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($736 vs $9,316).

How the prices are spread

$603 – $797: 26 hospitals$603$797 – $1,053: 44 hospitals$1,053 – $1,392: 56 hospitals$1,053$1,392 – $1,839: 52 hospitals$1,839 – $2,430: 26 hospitals$1,839$2,430 – $3,211: 26 hospitals$3,211 – $4,243: 77 hospitals$3,211$4,243 – $5,607: 36 hospitals$5,607 – $7,410: 25 hospitals$5,607$7,410 – $9,791: 38 hospitals$7,410median $2,366price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (406 of 445 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$603$79726
$797$1,05344
$1,053$1,39256
$1,392$1,83952
$1,839$2,43026
$2,430$3,21126
$3,211$4,24377
$4,243$5,60736
$5,607$7,41025
$7,410$9,79138

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,366
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.71×

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 $2,366.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,915 across 17 hospitalsMN$2,915Illinois: median $1,082 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,082Wisconsin: median $2,865 across 20 hospitalsWI$2,865Michigan: median $1,238 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,238New York: median $3,840 across 29 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,436 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,436Indiana: median $886 across 12 hospitalsIN$886Ohio: median $2,207 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,207Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,719 across 42 hospitalsCA$1,719Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $616 across 10 hospitalsWV$616Virginia: 1 hospital 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: 2 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $951 across 14 hospitalsOK$951Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,159 across 31 hospitalsTX$4,159Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,366. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$4,330+83%$3,594 – $5,419
Texas TX31$4,159+76%$3,127 – $6,733
New York NY29$3,840+62%$3,343 – $4,084
Minnesota MN17$2,915+23%$1,444 – $3,420
Wisconsin WI20$2,865+21%$2,834 – $5,253
Pennsylvania PA19$2,382+1%$356 – $5,486
Ohio OH13$2,207−7%$1,186 – $2,590
California CA42$1,719−27%$1,472 – $9,565
Iowa IA18$1,436−39%$1,420 – $1,436
Michigan MI27$1,238−48%$1,112 – $1,238
Illinois IL14$1,082−54%$886 – $1,436
Oklahoma OK14$951−60%$951 – $6,615
Indiana IN12$886−63%$886 – $1,705
West Virginia WV10$616−74%$616 – $2,038
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,366.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care340$3,127$1,060 – $5,855
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access94$1,420$809 – $3,500
Ownership
For-profit50$3,326$960 – $9,791
Government73$1,629$1,051 – $3,995
Non-profit321$2,374$985 – $5,253
System affiliation
Part of a system349$2,915$988 – $5,972
Independent96$1,546$1,051 – $3,553

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,531
Median cash price$2,366
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

226 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,462 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,998; most fall between $886 and $5,814.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 226 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
$652$951$1,462$4,159$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($652 vs $9,565).

Of the 252 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 226 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

445 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 493 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted445
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code493

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Explor Ankle Jt+Synovectomy.

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, “Open removal of the ankle joint lining (CPT 27625) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27625-open-removal-of-the-ankle-joint-lining