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Procedure price report · Amputation of lower extremity

Amputation through the ankle bones with plastic closure

CPT 27888the billing code this page is about

Removal of the foot at the level of the ankle bones, including shaping of the stump with plastic closure and trimming of nerves.

Hospitals typically charge $2,139 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 226 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,208. Most fall between $993 and $4,084 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
226
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 226 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
$773$1,045$2,139$3,500$6,617

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($773 vs $6,617).

How the prices are spread

$529 – $710: 9 hospitals$529$710 – $953: 14 hospitals$953 – $1,279: 43 hospitals$953$1,279 – $1,717: 18 hospitals$1,717 – $2,306: 33 hospitals$1,717$2,306 – $3,095: 12 hospitals$3,095 – $4,156: 42 hospitals$3,095$4,156 – $5,579: 17 hospitals$5,579 – $7,490: 10 hospitals$5,579$7,490 – $10,056: 8 hospitals$7,490median $2,139price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (206 of 226 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$529$7109
$710$95314
$953$1,27943
$1,279$1,71718
$1,717$2,30633
$2,306$3,09512
$3,095$4,15642
$4,156$5,57917
$5,579$7,49010
$7,490$10,0568

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,139
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.64×

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 $2,139.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,148 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,148Wisconsin: median $3,204 across 24 hospitalsWI$3,204Michigan: median $2,139 across 22 hospitalsMI$2,139New York: median $3,343 across 18 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,045 across 12 hospitalsOR$1,045Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,493 across 11 hospitalsOH$2,493Pennsylvania: median $418 across 15 hospitalsPA$418New Jersey: median $4,881 across 14 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,903 across 10 hospitalsCA$1,903Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $995 across 11 hospitalsOK$995Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,139. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$4,881+128%$3,986 – $5,855
New York NY18$3,343+56%$1,135 – $4,084
Wisconsin WI24$3,204+50%$3,144 – $6,617
Ohio OH11$2,493+17%$1,445 – $2,696
Michigan MI22$2,1390%$2,139 – $3,204
California CA10$1,903−11%$937 – $10,056
Illinois IL12$1,148−46%$972 – $2,478
Oregon OR12$1,045−51%$1,045 – $2,110
Oklahoma OK11$995−53%$995 – $995
Pennsylvania PA15$418−80%$354 – $24,620
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,139.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care170$2,085$986 – $4,499
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access46$2,210$1,207 – $3,204
Ownership
For-profit22$1,836$972 – $9,380
Government33$1,767$1,194 – $3,343
Non-profit171$2,139$993 – $4,233
System affiliation
Part of a system171$2,139$995 – $4,350
Independent55$1,544$950 – $3,230

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,179
Median cash price$2,139
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

121 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,645 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,843; most fall between $972 and $3,639.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 121 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
$745$986$1,645$3,204$16,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($745 vs $16,311).

Of the 148 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 121 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

226 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 267 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted226
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code267

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Amp Ankle-Malli Tibfib W/Plstc Clsr&Rescj Nrv.

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, “Amputation through the ankle bones with plastic closure (CPT 27888) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27888-amputation-through-the-ankle-bones-with-plastic-closure