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Amputation Through The Thighbone

Utah 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?

$6,452

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,452 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,026 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$427$138 to $562
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,026$2,692 to $26,915

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $38,019Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $59 to $776
$100$1K$10Kfacility $6,026professional $427

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
$3,162.28
Typical High
$6,025.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,174.90
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$602.56
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$26,302.68
Median
$32,359.37
Typical High
$47,863.01
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,148.15
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,513.56
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,570.40
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$24,547.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,348.96
7 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
$446.68
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$588.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$891.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$831.76
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$38,904.51
Median
$48,977.88
Typical High
$70,794.58

Where Utah 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

Utah· 11th of 51

$6,452

$427 physician + $6,026 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.