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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Late reconstruction of a torn side ligament of the ankle

CPT 27698the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to rebuild or reinforce an ankle side ligament some time after the original injury, when the first repair or healing left the joint unstable.

Hospitals typically charge $3,425 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 797 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,417. Most fall between $1,284 and $11,637 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
797
States
50
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 797 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
$982$1,440$3,425$8,613$16,779

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($982 vs $16,779).

How the prices are spread

$667 – $961: 37 hospitals$667$961 – $1,383: 115 hospitals$1,383 – $1,993: 97 hospitals$1,383$1,993 – $2,870: 67 hospitals$2,870 – $4,134: 65 hospitals$2,870$4,134 – $5,954: 83 hospitals$5,954 – $8,576: 94 hospitals$5,954$8,576 – $12,352: 75 hospitals$12,352 – $17,790: 51 hospitals$12,352$17,790 – $25,624: 35 hospitals$17,790median $3,425price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (719 of 797 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$667$96137
$961$1,383115
$1,383$1,99397
$1,993$2,87067
$2,870$4,13465
$4,134$5,95483
$5,954$8,57694
$8,576$12,35275
$12,352$17,79051
$17,790$25,62435

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,425
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.46×

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 $3,425.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals 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: median $2,106 across 23 hospitalsWA$2,106Idaho: median $5,665 across 17 hospitalsID$5,665Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,024 across 33 hospitalsMN$3,024Illinois: median $1,696 across 24 hospitalsIL$1,696Wisconsin: median $5,082 across 36 hospitalsWI$5,082Michigan: median $2,594 across 38 hospitalsMI$2,594New York: median $8,454 across 54 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,737 across 23 hospitalsOR$1,737Nevada: 6 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 $1,588 across 42 hospitalsIA$1,588Indiana: median $1,440 across 19 hospitalsIN$1,440Ohio: median $6,831 across 27 hospitalsOH$6,831Pennsylvania: median $7,138 across 30 hospitalsPA$7,138New Jersey: median $7,907 across 35 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: 4 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 $4,907 across 51 hospitalsCA$4,907Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,770 across 17 hospitalsCO$3,770Nebraska: median $1,936 across 20 hospitalsNE$1,936Missouri: median $4,496 across 20 hospitalsMO$4,496Kentucky: median $1,451 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,451West Virginia: median $1,755 across 20 hospitalsWV$1,755Virginia: median $5,661 across 12 hospitalsVA$5,661Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $7,090 across 12 hospitalsAZ$7,090New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,854 across 19 hospitalsKS$1,854Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,874 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,874North Carolina: median $1,824 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,824South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,349 across 16 hospitalsOK$1,349Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $6,476 across 12 hospitalsAL$6,476Georgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,887 across 37 hospitalsTX$5,887Florida: median $18,297 across 14 hospitalsFL$18,297
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,425. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL14$18,297+434%$2,499 – $34,502
New York NY54$8,454+147%$1,751 – $13,784
New Jersey NJ35$7,907+131%$4,627 – $9,388
Pennsylvania PA30$7,138+108%$416 – $12,932
Arizona AZ12$7,090+107%$997 – $25,995
Ohio OH27$6,831+99%$1,818 – $29,568
Alabama AL12$6,476+89%$1,819 – $12,585
Texas TX37$5,887+72%$3,858 – $17,489
Idaho ID17$5,665+65%$1,298 – $12,106
Virginia VA12$5,661+65%$427 – $21,817
Wisconsin WI36$5,082+48%$3,196 – $6,855
California CA51$4,907+43%$2,069 – $12,286
Missouri MO20$4,496+31%$1,087 – $11,389
Colorado CO17$3,770+10%$1,335 – $19,279
Minnesota MN33$3,024−12%$1,326 – $4,684
Michigan MI38$2,594−24%$1,253 – $9,978
Washington WA23$2,106−38%$1,151 – $5,229
Nebraska NE20$1,936−43%$1,187 – $6,326
Tennessee TN12$1,874−45%$695 – $11,904
Kansas KS19$1,854−46%$865 – $8,962
North Carolina NC10$1,824−47%$1,411 – $5,155
West Virginia WV20$1,755−49%$674 – $4,689
Oregon OR23$1,737−49%$1,184 – $2,588
Illinois IL24$1,696−50%$1,046 – $4,874
Iowa IA42$1,588−54%$1,366 – $2,286
Kentucky KY11$1,451−58%$961 – $7,832
Indiana IN19$1,440−58%$1,046 – $23,838
Oklahoma OK16$1,349−61%$1,349 – $6,612
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,425.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care569$5,122$1,358 – $12,483
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access215$1,806$1,091 – $5,082
Ownership
For-profit106$7,892$2,466 – $18,297
Government144$1,819$1,150 – $7,171
Non-profit546$3,322$1,285 – $11,093
System affiliation
Part of a system599$4,684$1,349 – $12,286
Independent198$2,069$1,150 – $7,861

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,533
Median cash price$3,425
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

353 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,252 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,051; most fall between $1,087 and $6,905.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 353 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
$824$1,184$2,252$5,887$12,286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($824 vs $12,286).

Of the 403 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 353 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

797 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 886 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted797
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code886

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 Repair Secondary Disrupted Ligament Ankle Coltrl.

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, “Late reconstruction of a torn side ligament of the ankle (CPT 27698) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27698-late-reconstruction-of-a-torn-side-ligament-of-the-ankle