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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Front and side leg fasciotomy with removal of dead muscle

CPT 27892the billing code this page is about

Surgery that opens the tough tissue covering the front and/or outer compartments of the lower leg to relieve pressure, including removal of muscle that is no longer viable.

Hospitals typically charge $2,064 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 367 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,330. Most fall between $885 and $4,636 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
367
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 367 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
$683$1,004$2,064$4,084$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($683 vs $8,372).

How the prices are spread

$548 – $723: 21 hospitals$548$723 – $955: 41 hospitals$955 – $1,261: 37 hospitals$955$1,261 – $1,665: 51 hospitals$1,665 – $2,199: 20 hospitals$1,665$2,199 – $2,904: 35 hospitals$2,904 – $3,835: 36 hospitals$2,904$3,835 – $5,064: 42 hospitals$5,064 – $6,687: 24 hospitals$5,064$6,687 – $8,831: 31 hospitals$6,687median $2,064price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (338 of 367 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$548$72321
$723$95541
$955$1,26137
$1,261$1,66551
$1,665$2,19920
$2,199$2,90435
$2,904$3,83536
$3,835$5,06442
$5,064$6,68724
$6,687$8,83131

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,064
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $2,064.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,276 across 20 hospitalsIL$1,276Wisconsin: median $2,634 across 28 hospitalsWI$2,634Michigan: median $1,355 across 17 hospitalsMI$1,355New York: median $3,840 across 29 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,353 across 20 hospitalsIA$1,353Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,994 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,994Pennsylvania: median $798 across 20 hospitalsPA$798New Jersey: median $3,986 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,831 across 28 hospitalsCA$8,831Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $6,100 across 11 hospitalsNC$6,100South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $885 across 12 hospitalsOK$885Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,722 across 19 hospitalsTX$3,722Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,064. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA28$8,831+328%$1,374 – $8,831
North Carolina NC11$6,100+196%$6,100 – $6,100
New Jersey NJ24$3,986+93%$3,591 – $5,741
New York NY29$3,840+86%$1,292 – $4,084
Texas TX19$3,722+80%$1,875 – $3,722
Wisconsin WI28$2,634+28%$2,594 – $4,485
Ohio OH13$1,994−3%$1,089 – $2,064
Michigan MI17$1,355−34%$1,069 – $4,499
Iowa IA20$1,353−34%$1,263 – $1,353
Illinois IL20$1,276−38%$788 – $2,256
Oklahoma OK12$885−57%$885 – $885
Pennsylvania PA20$798−61%$337 – $5,486
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,064.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care282$2,594$885 – $5,317
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access76$1,450$930 – $2,634
Ownership
For-profit38$2,849$788 – $8,372
Government73$1,450$973 – $3,840
Non-profit256$2,460$885 – $4,499
System affiliation
Part of a system287$2,594$909 – $5,404
Independent80$1,214$871 – $2,566

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,032
Median cash price$2,064
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

216 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,616 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,079; most fall between $885 and $5,317.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 216 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
$664$937$1,616$3,722$8,442

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($664 vs $8,442).

Of the 234 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 216 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

367 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 408 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted367
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code408

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 Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dcmprn Fasct Leg Ant&/Lat W/Dbrdmt Musc&/Nerve.

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, “Front and side leg fasciotomy with removal of dead muscle (CPT 27892) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27892-front-and-side-leg-fasciotomy-with-removal-of-dead-muscle