Price Comparison
Surgery Center Price
$12,000-$28,000
Ambulatory / outpatient facility
Hospital Price
$28,000-$65,000
Inpatient hospital facility
Real prices from our database
Not an estimate. These figures come from actual hospital-disclosed cash prices and insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 27447 (Total knee replacement) in FairVisitHealth's price-transparency corpus.
Typical cash price
$17,500
Most fall between $15,154 and $20,739 (25th–75th percentile)
Based on 1,510 hospital-disclosed cash prices
Your negotiation target
$1,822
Median rate insurers actually pay for the same code
Across 11,161 insurer-negotiated rates — ask providers to match it
Surgeon/facility component. Anesthesia, implants, and inpatient stay may be billed separately.
Source: FairVisitHealth analysis of 1,510 hospital-disclosed cash prices and 11,161 insurer-negotiated rates for CPT 27447, from CMS hospital price-transparency machine-readable files and insurer Transparency-in-Coverage files. Data as of July 2026.