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Amputation Through The Thighbone

North Dakota 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?

$3,823

Typical total for the visit. In North Dakota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,823 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,479 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,344 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,479$1,202 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,344$776 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,344 · 10th to 90th $776 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $832 to $1,950
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,344professional $1,479

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,949.84
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$194.98
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,238.72
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$8,511.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$12,302.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,584.89
2 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
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
22 · Increased work
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,290.87
BCBS North Dakota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where North Dakota 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

North Dakota· 40th of 51

$3,823

$1,479 physician + $2,344 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.