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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Open removal of ankle joint lining plus tendon sheath lining

CPT 27626the billing code this page is about

Open surgery on the ankle that removes diseased joint lining along with the inflamed lining of nearby tendon sheaths.

Hospitals typically charge $2,555 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 399 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,908. Most fall between $1,128 and $6,615 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
399
States
45
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 399 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
$855$1,235$2,555$5,110$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($855 vs $9,565).

How the prices are spread

$635 – $870: 26 hospitals$635$870 – $1,194: 49 hospitals$1,194 – $1,638: 55 hospitals$1,194$1,638 – $2,247: 31 hospitals$2,247 – $3,083: 31 hospitals$2,247$3,083 – $4,229: 71 hospitals$4,229 – $5,802: 27 hospitals$4,229$5,802 – $7,959: 27 hospitals$7,959 – $10,919: 39 hospitals$7,959$10,919 – $14,979: 7 hospitals$10,919median $2,555price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (363 of 399 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$635$87026
$870$1,19449
$1,194$1,63855
$1,638$2,24731
$2,247$3,08331
$3,083$4,22971
$4,229$5,80227
$5,802$7,95927
$7,959$10,91939
$10,919$14,9797

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,555
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

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 $2,555.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,877 across 10 hospitalsID$6,877Montana: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,235 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,235Wisconsin: median $4,026 across 17 hospitalsWI$4,026Michigan: median $2,306 across 26 hospitalsMI$2,306New York: median $3,840 across 26 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,507 across 20 hospitalsIA$1,507Indiana: median $1,235 across 11 hospitalsIN$1,235Ohio: median $2,366 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,366Pennsylvania: median $912 across 20 hospitalsPA$912New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,565 across 28 hospitalsCA$9,565Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $635 across 11 hospitalsWV$635Virginia: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,027 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,027Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,521 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,521Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,555. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA28$9,565+274%$1,900 – $9,565
Idaho ID10$6,877+169%$3,500 – $8,372
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+69%$3,594 – $5,339
Wisconsin WI17$4,026+58%$1,967 – $6,785
New York NY26$3,840+50%$1,852 – $4,084
Texas TX24$3,521+38%$2,127 – $3,521
Ohio OH12$2,366−7%$1,287 – $2,781
Michigan MI26$2,306−10%$855 – $2,306
Iowa IA20$1,507−41%$1,490 – $1,707
Illinois IL16$1,235−52%$1,201 – $1,537
Indiana IN11$1,235−52%$1,122 – $1,250
Oklahoma OK14$1,027−60%$1,027 – $6,615
Pennsylvania PA20$912−64%$382 – $5,038
West Virginia WV11$635−75%$635 – $1,663
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,555.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care316$3,521$1,137 – $6,987
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access75$1,558$916 – $4,026
Ownership
For-profit56$3,794$1,294 – $10,633
Government61$1,758$1,107 – $3,840
Non-profit282$2,428$1,069 – $6,167
System affiliation
Part of a system307$3,521$1,143 – $6,877
Independent92$1,798$1,056 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,964
Median cash price$2,555
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

200 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,568 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,369; most fall between $1,027 and $6,785.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 200 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
$750$1,078$1,568$5,038$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($750 vs $9,565).

Of the 225 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 200 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

399 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 450 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted399
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code450

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 Arthrotomy W/Synovectomy Ankle Tenosynovectomy.

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 ankle joint lining plus tendon sheath lining (CPT 27626) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27626-open-removal-of-ankle-joint-lining-plus-tendon-sheath-lining