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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Repair of a torn Achilles tendon

CPT 27650the billing code this page is about

Open or through-the-skin repair of a freshly ruptured Achilles tendon at the back of the ankle.

Hospitals typically charge $4,575 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,150 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,127. Most fall between $1,398 and $11,256 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,150
States
50
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 1,150 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
$1,009$1,632$4,575$9,823$18,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,009 vs $18,304).

How the prices are spread

$716 – $1,014: 63 hospitals$716$1,014 – $1,438: 121 hospitals$1,438 – $2,038: 121 hospitals$1,438$2,038 – $2,889: 106 hospitals$2,889 – $4,094: 74 hospitals$2,889$4,094 – $5,803: 101 hospitals$5,803 – $8,225: 133 hospitals$5,803$8,225 – $11,658: 150 hospitals$11,658 – $16,523: 88 hospitals$11,658$16,523 – $23,420: 80 hospitals$16,523median $4,575price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,037 of 1,150 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$716$1,01463
$1,014$1,438121
$1,438$2,038121
$2,038$2,889106
$2,889$4,09474
$4,094$5,803101
$5,803$8,225133
$8,225$11,658150
$11,658$16,52388
$16,523$23,42080

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$4,575
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $4,575.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $987 across 10 hospitalsVT$987New Hampshire: median $853 across 11 hospitalsNH$853Washington: median $2,491 across 34 hospitalsWA$2,491Idaho: median $5,919 across 18 hospitalsID$5,919Montana: median $2,753 across 13 hospitalsMT$2,753North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,492 across 46 hospitalsMN$2,492Illinois: median $2,640 across 41 hospitalsIL$2,640Wisconsin: median $4,154 across 45 hospitalsWI$4,154Michigan: median $2,144 across 45 hospitalsMI$2,144New York: median $8,454 across 67 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: median $8,543 across 29 hospitalsMA$8,543Oregon: median $2,198 across 31 hospitalsOR$2,198Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,632 across 48 hospitalsIA$1,632Indiana: median $3,040 across 29 hospitalsIN$3,040Ohio: median $8,791 across 42 hospitalsOH$8,791Pennsylvania: median $2,121 across 36 hospitalsPA$2,121New Jersey: median $7,907 across 35 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,090 across 81 hospitalsCA$5,090Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $6,477 across 22 hospitalsCO$6,477Nebraska: median $2,580 across 32 hospitalsNE$2,580Missouri: median $4,615 across 28 hospitalsMO$4,615Kentucky: median $1,451 across 18 hospitalsKY$1,451West Virginia: median $4,575 across 21 hospitalsWV$4,575Virginia: median $6,157 across 18 hospitalsVA$6,157Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $8,904 across 12 hospitalsAZ$8,904New Mexico: median $4,360 across 10 hospitalsNM$4,360Kansas: median $1,664 across 24 hospitalsKS$1,664Arkansas: median $2,416 across 12 hospitalsAR$2,416Tennessee: median $5,788 across 17 hospitalsTN$5,788North Carolina: median $3,961 across 18 hospitalsNC$3,961South Carolina: median $8,399 across 16 hospitalsSC$8,399Oklahoma: median $1,383 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,383Louisiana: median $6,431 across 15 hospitalsLA$6,431Mississippi: median $1,815 across 18 hospitalsMS$1,815Alabama: median $3,504 across 18 hospitalsAL$3,504Georgia: median $7,906 across 20 hospitalsGA$7,906Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $8,964 across 56 hospitalsTX$8,964Florida: median $6,238 across 32 hospitalsFL$6,238
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,575. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX56$8,964+96%$6,210 – $16,610
Arizona AZ12$8,904+95%$1,032 – $17,746
Ohio OH42$8,791+92%$1,639 – $30,405
Massachusetts MA29$8,543+87%$2,661 – $22,181
New York NY67$8,454+85%$1,984 – $18,378
South Carolina SC16$8,399+84%$8,399 – $11,826
New Jersey NJ35$7,907+73%$4,881 – $9,388
Georgia GA20$7,906+73%$4,602 – $17,100
Colorado CO22$6,477+42%$1,378 – $19,279
Louisiana LA15$6,431+41%$4,240 – $9,390
Florida FL32$6,238+36%$3,011 – $15,187
Virginia VA18$6,157+35%$4,721 – $30,367
Idaho ID18$5,919+29%$1,219 – $12,106
Tennessee TN17$5,788+27%$716 – $9,927
California CA81$5,090+11%$2,475 – $10,713
Missouri MO28$4,615+1%$1,034 – $12,675
West Virginia WV21$4,5750%$717 – $8,679
New Mexico NM10$4,360−5%$1,158 – $18,804
Wisconsin WI45$4,154−9%$3,248 – $8,196
North Carolina NC18$3,961−13%$1,255 – $9,189
Alabama AL18$3,504−23%$1,732 – $13,484
Indiana IN29$3,040−34%$948 – $13,374
Montana MT13$2,753−40%$734 – $5,072
Illinois IL41$2,640−42%$1,179 – $7,394
Nebraska NE32$2,580−44%$1,519 – $4,354
Minnesota MN46$2,492−46%$1,491 – $4,426
Washington WA34$2,491−46%$1,420 – $14,415
Arkansas AR12$2,416−47%$1,169 – $3,182
Oregon OR31$2,198−52%$1,225 – $5,218
Michigan MI45$2,144−53%$1,407 – $9,978
Pennsylvania PA36$2,121−54%$486 – $12,077
Mississippi MS18$1,815−60%$1,139 – $11,058
Kansas KS24$1,664−64%$926 – $5,790
Iowa IA48$1,632−64%$1,260 – $3,390
Kentucky KY18$1,451−68%$902 – $3,045
Oklahoma OK19$1,383−70%$1,383 – $10,752
Vermont VT10$987−78%$339 – $2,032
New Hampshire NH11$853−81%$581 – $1,642
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $4,575.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care824$6,370$1,772 – $13,466
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access311$1,854$1,093 – $6,059
Ownership
For-profit138$8,415$2,491 – $17,172
Government197$2,144$1,254 – $8,454
Non-profit813$4,426$1,407 – $10,944
System affiliation
Part of a system898$4,995$1,537 – $12,345
Independent252$2,202$1,209 – $8,443

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,477
Median cash price$4,575
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

613 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,500 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,185; most fall between $1,232 and $9,911.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 613 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
$925$1,383$3,500$8,543$14,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($925 vs $14,576).

Of the 666 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 613 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 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,150 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,267 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,150
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded35
Hospitals that filed this code1,267

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 Repair Primary Open/Prq Ruptured Achilles Tendon.

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, “Repair of a torn Achilles tendon (CPT 27650) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27650-repair-of-a-torn-achilles-tendon