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Amputation Through The Thighbone

Nevada 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?

$5,216

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,216 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $851 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,365 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$851$776 to $1,023
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,365$2,138 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $1,585 to $7,943Professionalmedian $851 · 10th to 90th $692 to $1,318
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $4,365professional $851

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
$776.25
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$851.14
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$5,754.40
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,230.27
Hometown Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$1,698.24
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$1,047.13
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$4,265.80
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,288.25
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
$389.05
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$426.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$169.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$602.56

Where Nevada 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

Nevada· 18th of 51

$5,216

$851 physician + $4,365 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.