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

Nonsurgical care of lower shinbone joint surface fracture

CPT 27824the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a break through the weight-bearing joint surface of the lower shinbone, with or without anesthesia, and without repositioning the bone.

Hospitals typically charge $488 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,414 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $517. Most fall between $270 and $893 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,414
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 1,414 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
$213$301$488$802$1,253

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $1,253).

How the prices are spread

$169 – $213: 76 hospitals$169$213 – $269: 137 hospitals$269 – $340: 149 hospitals$269$340 – $429: 164 hospitals$429 – $541: 217 hospitals$429$541 – $683: 154 hospitals$683 – $862: 150 hospitals$683$862 – $1,088: 120 hospitals$1,088 – $1,374: 61 hospitals$1,088$1,374 – $1,734: 47 hospitals$1,374median $488price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,275 of 1,414 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$169$21376
$213$269137
$269$340149
$340$429164
$429$541217
$541$683154
$683$862150
$862$1,088120
$1,088$1,37461
$1,374$1,73447

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$488
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.94×

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 $488.

Alaska: median $484 across 12 hospitalsAK$484Maine: median $362 across 13 hospitalsME$362Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $209 across 10 hospitalsNH$209Washington: median $561 across 43 hospitalsWA$561Idaho: median $629 across 14 hospitalsID$629Montana: median $372 across 13 hospitalsMT$372North Dakota: median $470 across 18 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $628 across 44 hospitalsMN$628Illinois: median $501 across 53 hospitalsIL$501Wisconsin: median $771 across 53 hospitalsWI$771Michigan: median $466 across 50 hospitalsMI$466New York: median $511 across 73 hospitalsNY$511Massachusetts: median $1,179 across 36 hospitalsMA$1,179Oregon: median $605 across 41 hospitalsOR$605Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $465 across 23 hospitalsSD$465Iowa: median $506 across 55 hospitalsIA$506Indiana: median $373 across 35 hospitalsIN$373Ohio: median $581 across 53 hospitalsOH$581Pennsylvania: median $517 across 59 hospitalsPA$517New Jersey: median $977 across 29 hospitalsNJ$977Connecticut: median $393 across 10 hospitalsCT$393Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $578 across 95 hospitalsCA$578Utah: median $416 across 28 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $752 across 25 hospitalsCO$752Nebraska: median $564 across 40 hospitalsNE$564Missouri: median $412 across 24 hospitalsMO$412Kentucky: median $288 across 13 hospitalsKY$288West Virginia: median $346 across 25 hospitalsWV$346Virginia: median $374 across 31 hospitalsVA$374Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,506 across 15 hospitalsAZ$1,506New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $512 across 31 hospitalsKS$512Arkansas: median $393 across 10 hospitalsAR$393Tennessee: median $206 across 18 hospitalsTN$206North Carolina: median $264 across 28 hospitalsNC$264South Carolina: median $998 across 29 hospitalsSC$998Oklahoma: median $508 across 28 hospitalsOK$508Louisiana: median $243 across 23 hospitalsLA$243Mississippi: median $201 across 14 hospitalsMS$201Alabama: median $390 across 12 hospitalsAL$390Georgia: median $445 across 26 hospitalsGA$445Hawaii: median $561 across 10 hospitalsHI$561Texas: median $314 across 80 hospitalsTX$314Florida: median $896 across 32 hospitalsFL$896
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $488. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ15$1,506+209%$439 – $1,506
Massachusetts MA36$1,179+142%$603 – $1,990
South Carolina SC29$998+104%$324 – $2,248
New Jersey NJ29$977+100%$266 – $5,339
Florida FL32$896+84%$735 – $1,262
Wisconsin WI53$771+58%$329 – $1,635
Colorado CO25$752+54%$296 – $1,242
Idaho ID14$629+29%$237 – $928
Minnesota MN44$628+29%$308 – $876
Oregon OR41$605+24%$316 – $988
Ohio OH53$581+19%$419 – $717
California CA95$578+18%$381 – $935
Nebraska NE40$564+16%$299 – $917
Hawaii HI10$561+15%$438 – $577
Washington WA43$561+15%$428 – $801
Pennsylvania PA59$517+6%$242 – $844
Kansas KS31$512+5%$327 – $1,155
New York NY73$511+5%$284 – $897
Oklahoma OK28$508+4%$202 – $512
Iowa IA55$506+4%$247 – $799
Illinois IL53$501+3%$284 – $976
Alaska AK12$484−1%$396 – $1,727
North Dakota ND18$470−4%$269 – $674
Michigan MI50$466−5%$339 – $785
South Dakota SD23$465−5%$393 – $774
Georgia GA26$445−9%$256 – $627
Utah UT28$416−15%$326 – $466
Missouri MO24$412−16%$184 – $582
Connecticut CT10$393−19%$240 – $768
Arkansas AR10$393−19%$222 – $496
Alabama AL12$390−20%$220 – $883
Virginia VA31$374−23%$213 – $488
Indiana IN35$373−23%$217 – $694
Montana MT13$372−24%$239 – $722
Maine ME13$362−26%$262 – $583
West Virginia WV25$346−29%$278 – $488
Texas TX80$314−36%$232 – $541
Kentucky KY13$288−41%$244 – $480
North Carolina NC28$264−46%$189 – $361
Louisiana LA23$243−50%$157 – $480
New Hampshire NH10$209−57%$199 – $358
Tennessee TN18$206−58%$206 – $324
Mississippi MS14$201−59%$145 – $453
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $488.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care964$471$264 – $896
Children’s40$883$325 – $1,170
Critical access409$511$310 – $821
Ownership
For-profit109$547$305 – $1,262
Government258$468$261 – $819
Non-profit1,046$488$276 – $886
System affiliation
Part of a system1,138$494$276 – $893
Independent276$466$252 – $848

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$776
Median cash price$488
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

1,006 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $517 and the average of the middle 60% is $547; most fall between $284 and $918.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,006 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
$229$335$517$838$1,267

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($229 vs $1,267).

Of the 1,082 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,006 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 44 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,414 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,531 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,414
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded52
Hospitals that filed this code1,531

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 Cltx Fx W8 Brg Artclr Prtn Dstl Tibia W/O Manj.

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, “Nonsurgical care of lower shinbone joint surface fracture (CPT 27824) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27824-nonsurgical-care-of-lower-shinbone-joint-surface-fracture