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Procedure price report · Amputation of lower extremity

Below-knee amputation

CPT 27880the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of the lower leg through the shinbone and calf bone, below the knee.

Hospitals typically charge $2,222 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 565 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,513. Most fall between $1,155 and $5,050 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
565
States
47
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 565 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
$794$1,391$2,222$4,602$9,058

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($794 vs $9,058).

How the prices are spread

$439 – $620: 19 hospitals$439$620 – $877: 15 hospitals$877 – $1,241: 63 hospitals$877$1,241 – $1,755: 86 hospitals$1,755 – $2,481: 107 hospitals$1,755$2,481 – $3,509: 68 hospitals$3,509 – $4,962: 63 hospitals$3,509$4,962 – $7,018: 41 hospitals$7,018 – $9,924: 24 hospitals$7,018$9,924 – $14,035: 24 hospitals$9,924median $2,222price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (510 of 565 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$439$62019
$620$87715
$877$1,24163
$1,241$1,75586
$1,755$2,481107
$2,481$3,50968
$3,509$4,96263
$4,962$7,01841
$7,018$9,92424
$9,924$14,03524

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$2,222
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.30×

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 $2,222.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,864 across 14 hospitalsWA$1,864Idaho: median $5,000 across 13 hospitalsID$5,000Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,761 across 24 hospitalsMN$2,761Illinois: median $1,777 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,777Wisconsin: median $4,602 across 34 hospitalsWI$4,602Michigan: median $2,106 across 33 hospitalsMI$2,106New York: median $2,655 across 30 hospitalsNY$2,655Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,565 across 23 hospitalsOR$2,565Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,222 across 26 hospitalsIA$2,222Indiana: median $1,569 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,569Ohio: median $1,325 across 19 hospitalsOH$1,325Pennsylvania: median $678 across 24 hospitalsPA$678New Jersey: median $5,339 across 15 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,702 across 18 hospitalsCA$1,702Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $1,842 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,842Nebraska: median $2,493 across 12 hospitalsNE$2,493Missouri: median $1,435 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,435Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,011 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,011Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 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 $1,394 across 16 hospitalsKS$1,394Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,885 across 20 hospitalsOK$1,885Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,989 across 10 hospitalsGA$5,989Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,957 across 17 hospitalsTX$2,957Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,222. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$5,989+169%$1,291 – $5,989
New Jersey NJ15$5,339+140%$3,986 – $6,311
Idaho ID13$5,000+125%$1,478 – $14,738
Wisconsin WI34$4,602+107%$3,200 – $6,916
Texas TX17$2,957+33%$1,676 – $6,865
Minnesota MN24$2,761+24%$1,552 – $4,295
New York NY30$2,655+19%$1,072 – $8,613
Oregon OR23$2,565+15%$1,562 – $3,757
Nebraska NE12$2,493+12%$2,020 – $3,055
Iowa IA26$2,2220%$1,817 – $2,222
Michigan MI33$2,106−5%$1,792 – $4,602
Oklahoma OK20$1,885−15%$1,885 – $5,447
Washington WA14$1,864−16%$1,602 – $3,366
Colorado CO10$1,842−17%$1,009 – $2,573
Illinois IL23$1,777−20%$1,130 – $3,986
California CA18$1,702−23%$937 – $2,697
Indiana IN18$1,569−29%$1,130 – $2,922
Missouri MO18$1,435−35%$1,281 – $4,661
Kansas KS16$1,394−37%$820 – $1,871
Ohio OH19$1,325−40%$439 – $2,302
West Virginia WV15$1,011−55%$973 – $2,594
Pennsylvania PA24$678−70%$477 – $12,086
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not 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
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not 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 $2,222.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care367$2,235$1,143 – $5,989
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access186$2,106$1,179 – $4,295
Ownership
For-profit44$3,161$1,239 – $13,188
Government124$2,184$1,400 – $4,302
Non-profit395$2,222$1,130 – $4,770
System affiliation
Part of a system389$2,242$1,130 – $5,855
Independent176$1,910$1,245 – $3,944

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,791
Median cash price$2,222
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,885 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,190; most fall between $1,072 and $4,602.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$709$1,143$1,885$3,711$8,256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($709 vs $8,256).

Of the 368 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

565 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 653 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted565
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code653

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 Amputation of lower extremity family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Amputation Leg Through Tibia&Fibula.

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, “Below-knee amputation (CPT 27880) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27880-below-knee-amputation