Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
DECOMPRESSION OF THIGH/KNEE
Eureka, IL
See all hospitals reporting CPT 27496 →Price type
Carle Eureka Hospital’s median price of $527 is 85% below the median hospital's median price ($3.6k), higher than 4% of the 1,526 hospitals reporting CPT 27496. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 4 payers, 6 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.
Filter by billing methodology
Filter by billing class
| # | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humana medicare-medicaid (d-snp) fee schedule · inpatient | $512 | $512 | — | — | — | $512 – $512 |
| 2 | Humana medicare-medicaid (d-snp) fee schedule · outpatient | $512 | $512 | — | — | — | $512 – $512 |
| 3 | Aetna Better Health medicare-medicaid (d-snp) fee schedule · inpatient | $527 | $527 | — | — | — | $527 – $527 |
| 4 | Aetna Better Health medicare-medicaid (d-snp) fee schedule · outpatient | $527 | $527 | — | — | — | $527 – $527 |
| 5 | Aetna commercial fee schedule · outpatient | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | — | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 6 | WellCare medicare advantage hmo case rate · outpatient | $3.5k | $3.5k | — | — | — | $3.5k – $3.5k |
Last updated: Apr 15, 2026
See Thigh or knee decompression surgery pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.