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Amputation Through The Thighbone

Massachusetts 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?

$3,152

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,152 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,202$933 to $2,042
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$1,000 to $5,888

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $794 to $13,804Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $759 to $5,888
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $1,950professional $1,202

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
$2,290.87
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,128.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$2,290.87
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$25,118.86
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,888.44
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,162.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,949.84
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,174.90
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$14,125.38
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,238.72
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$25,118.86
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$12,882.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$3,388.44
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,174.90
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$794.33
9 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
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,737.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$346.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$891.25
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 46th of 51

$3,152

$1,202 physician + $1,950 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.