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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur)

Surgery to repair upper fibula or shaft fracture

CPT 27784the billing code this page is about

Open operation on a break in the upper end or shaft of the smaller lower leg bone, with internal or external hardware to hold the bone in place.

Hospitals typically charge $3,116 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 644 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,795. Most fall between $1,200 and $9,058 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
644
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 644 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
$808$1,352$3,116$7,914$15,558

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($808 vs $15,558).

How the prices are spread

$750 – $1,040: 58 hospitals$750$1,040 – $1,443: 81 hospitals$1,443 – $2,003: 81 hospitals$1,443$2,003 – $2,780: 58 hospitals$2,780 – $3,858: 66 hospitals$2,780$3,858 – $5,354: 37 hospitals$5,354 – $7,430: 54 hospitals$5,354$7,430 – $10,311: 73 hospitals$10,311 – $14,309: 24 hospitals$10,311$14,309 – $19,858: 55 hospitals$14,309median $3,116price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (587 of 644 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$750$1,04058
$1,040$1,44381
$1,443$2,00381
$2,003$2,78058
$2,780$3,85866
$3,858$5,35437
$5,354$7,43054
$7,430$10,31173
$10,311$14,30924
$14,309$19,85855

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,116
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.42×

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 $3,116.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 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 $3,300 across 21 hospitalsWA$3,300Idaho: median $5,506 across 13 hospitalsID$5,506Montana: median $2,108 across 10 hospitalsMT$2,108North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,837 across 23 hospitalsMN$2,837Illinois: median $1,359 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,359Wisconsin: median $3,559 across 35 hospitalsWI$3,559Michigan: median $1,159 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,159New York: median $7,772 across 29 hospitalsNY$7,772Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,363 across 30 hospitalsOR$2,363Nevada: 5 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 $1,751 across 32 hospitalsIA$1,751Indiana: median $824 across 14 hospitalsIN$824Ohio: median $2,514 across 19 hospitalsOH$2,514Pennsylvania: median $2,806 across 25 hospitalsPA$2,806New Jersey: median $7,907 across 31 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,780 across 65 hospitalsCA$5,780Utah: 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 $2,408 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,408Missouri: median $4,807 across 10 hospitalsMO$4,807Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,937 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,937Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,160 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,160Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,493 across 17 hospitalsOK$1,493Louisiana: 8 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 11 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 $7,070 across 31 hospitalsTX$7,070Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,116. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$7,907+154%$5,110 – $9,388
New York NY29$7,772+149%$1,281 – $8,454
Texas TX31$7,070+127%$6,374 – $9,317
Alabama AL11$6,476+108%$2,017 – $10,097
California CA65$5,780+86%$3,255 – $19,858
Idaho ID13$5,506+77%$1,666 – $14,738
Missouri MO10$4,807+54%$1,127 – $7,581
Wisconsin WI35$3,559+14%$3,116 – $4,939
Washington WA21$3,300+6%$1,514 – $15,281
Minnesota MN23$2,837−9%$1,393 – $3,320
Pennsylvania PA25$2,806−10%$463 – $10,468
Ohio OH19$2,514−19%$1,142 – $12,927
Nebraska NE10$2,408−23%$1,211 – $7,652
Oregon OR30$2,363−24%$1,323 – $16,403
Montana MT10$2,108−32%$1,341 – $3,266
West Virginia WV15$1,937−38%$757 – $5,789
Iowa IA32$1,751−44%$1,236 – $1,958
Oklahoma OK17$1,493−52%$1,493 – $5,507
Illinois IL21$1,359−56%$792 – $2,137
Kansas KS12$1,160−63%$1,013 – $5,183
Michigan MI33$1,159−63%$1,092 – $3,559
Indiana IN14$824−74%$792 – $2,776
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not 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
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $3,116.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care448$3,966$1,283 – $9,978
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access184$1,958$1,104 – $4,939
Ownership
For-profit62$6,813$1,493 – $14,738
Government118$1,777$1,159 – $8,108
Non-profit464$3,255$1,200 – $8,819
System affiliation
Part of a system490$3,320$1,221 – $9,978
Independent154$1,848$1,145 – $6,757

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,001
Median cash price$3,116
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

352 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,166 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,684; most fall between $1,108 and $10,334.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 352 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
$784$1,323$3,166$7,481$16,355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($784 vs $16,355).

Of the 397 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 352 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

644 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 712 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted644
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code712

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Treatment Proximal Fibula/Shaft Fracture.

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, “Surgery to repair upper fibula or shaft fracture (CPT 27784) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27784-surgery-to-repair-upper-fibula-or-shaft-fracture