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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Freeing a scarred leg or ankle tendon, one tendon

CPT 27680the billing code this page is about

Surgery to release a flexor or extensor tendon in the lower leg or ankle from scar tissue or adhesions so it can glide; this code covers one tendon.

Hospitals typically charge $2,101 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 596 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,465. Most fall between $790 and $5,971 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
596
States
49
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 596 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
$627$917$2,101$4,786$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($627 vs $9,565).

How the prices are spread

$460 – $675: 40 hospitals$460$675 – $991: 89 hospitals$991 – $1,455: 90 hospitals$991$1,455 – $2,135: 53 hospitals$2,135 – $3,133: 53 hospitals$2,135$3,133 – $4,598: 87 hospitals$4,598 – $6,749: 57 hospitals$4,598$6,749 – $9,905: 41 hospitals$9,905 – $14,536: 15 hospitals$9,905$14,536 – $21,333: 13 hospitals$14,536median $2,101price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (538 of 596 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$460$67540
$675$99189
$991$1,45590
$1,455$2,13553
$2,135$3,13353
$3,133$4,59887
$4,598$6,74957
$6,749$9,90541
$9,905$14,53615
$14,536$21,33313

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,101
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $2,101.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,877 across 12 hospitalsID$6,877Montana: 4 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 $1,936 across 29 hospitalsMN$1,936Illinois: median $1,045 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,045Wisconsin: median $2,855 across 34 hospitalsWI$2,855Michigan: median $1,317 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,317New York: median $3,840 across 37 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,129 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,129Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $1,053 across 29 hospitalsIA$1,053Indiana: median $787 across 16 hospitalsIN$787Ohio: median $1,558 across 22 hospitalsOH$1,558Pennsylvania: median $3,804 across 31 hospitalsPA$3,804New Jersey: median $4,350 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $9,565 across 37 hospitalsCA$9,565Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,092 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,092Missouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,857 across 10 hospitalsVA$1,857Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,043 across 13 hospitalsKS$1,043Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $6,361 across 10 hospitalsSC$6,361Oklahoma: median $698 across 14 hospitalsOK$698Louisiana: median $2,974 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,974Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,653 across 10 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,376 across 30 hospitalsTX$3,376Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,101. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA37$9,565+355%$992 – $9,565
Idaho ID12$6,877+227%$3,910 – $8,372
Georgia GA10$6,653+217%$3,265 – $6,653
South Carolina SC10$6,361+203%$4,553 – $6,814
New Jersey NJ32$4,350+107%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY37$3,840+83%$694 – $4,048
Pennsylvania PA31$3,804+81%$289 – $6,987
Texas TX30$3,376+61%$2,507 – $4,397
Louisiana LA11$2,974+42%$1,140 – $5,299
Wisconsin WI34$2,855+36%$2,101 – $2,953
Minnesota MN29$1,936−8%$881 – $2,271
Virginia VA10$1,857−12%$283 – $9,791
Ohio OH22$1,558−26%$910 – $31,581
Michigan MI33$1,317−37%$1,072 – $4,499
Oregon OR16$1,129−46%$790 – $1,398
Nebraska NE16$1,092−48%$825 – $3,555
Iowa IA29$1,053−50%$891 – $2,132
Illinois IL23$1,045−50%$613 – $4,550
Kansas KS13$1,043−50%$735 – $3,089
Indiana IN16$787−63%$613 – $9,594
Oklahoma OK14$698−67%$698 – $6,615
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,101.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care443$2,855$790 – $6,653
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access140$1,317$787 – $3,370
Ownership
For-profit68$3,945$1,072 – $9,594
Government95$1,219$787 – $3,840
Non-profit432$2,101$790 – $5,858
System affiliation
Part of a system459$2,738$841 – $6,653
Independent137$1,257$761 – $3,820

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,352
Median cash price$2,101
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

289 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,486 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,030; most fall between $698 and $5,595.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 289 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
$597$765$1,486$4,048$8,706

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($597 vs $8,706).

Of the 324 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 289 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

596 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 668 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted596
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code668

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 Tenolysis Flxr/Xtnsr Tendon Leg&/Ankle 1 Each.

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, “Freeing a scarred leg or ankle tendon, one tendon (CPT 27680) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27680-freeing-a-scarred-leg-or-ankle-tendon-one-tendon