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Amputation Through The Thighbone

Iowa rates for HCPCS 27590

Removes the leg by cutting through the thighbone above the knee, at whatever level gives healthy, well-supplied tissue. Muscle and skin are shaped over the cut end to form a padded stump that can tolerate a prosthesis. It is done for severe infection, injury, tumor, or a limb whose blood supply cannot be restored.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Amputation Through The Thighbone cost?

$5,679

Typical total for the visit. In Iowa, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,679 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,698 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,981 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,698$1,202 to $1,778
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,981$2,089 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $1,380 to $12,303Professionalmedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $891 to $2,138
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,981professional $1,698

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,467.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,137.96
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,089.30
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$11,748.98
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$5,754.40
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,137.96
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,467.37
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$13,803.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,137.96
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,778.28
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$891.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$831.76

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 4.3 times more in Alaska than in Texas. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Iowa· 15th of 51

$5,679

$1,698 physician + $3,981 facility

AK $9,769TX $2,271

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.