Total Hip Replacement Cost in Massachusetts
Total hip arthroplasty
$14,279Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Massachusetts Medicare physician rate (2026)
+3.9% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $1,165.36–$1,248.67.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $3,503 on the Medicare allowed amount for total hip replacement. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
Medicare pays the hospital a single comprehensive amount for this procedure, covering the facility's share of the encounter including implants and supplies. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Massachusetts
Look up your ZIP to see whether metro Boston or rest-of-state pricing applies, from Boston and Cambridge to Worcester, Springfield, the North and South Shores, and Cape Cod.
What total hip replacement costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Massachusetts moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Massachusetts
Where Massachusetts ranks for this CPT
CPT 27130 by Massachusetts locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| metropolitan boston | $1,248.67 |
| rest of massachusetts | $1,165.36 |
PE GPCI ranges from 1.053 to 1.194 in Massachusetts. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Total Hip Replacement and how Massachusetts is priced
Massachusetts is priced through two localities: metro Boston and the rest of the state. Boston's locality carries clearly higher geographic adjustments, reflecting some of the highest medical wages and office costs in the nation, while Worcester, Springfield, and the Cape share the lower rest-of-state factors. The split means the fee schedule itself acknowledges what everyone in the state already knows about Boston prices. Even so, rest-of-state Massachusetts still prices above most of the country.
Boston has arguably the densest concentration of academic medical centers anywhere, and its teaching hospitals pull referrals from all of New England and beyond. That prestige comes with a high-cost market structure that state policymakers have scrutinized for years. Western Massachusetts operates more like a regional market centered on Springfield, and Cape and islands residents contend with seasonal capacity strain.
This procedure: Total hip replacement removes a worn or damaged hip joint, usually destroyed by arthritis, and replaces it with a metal, ceramic, and plastic implant. It is one of the most successful operations in medicine for relieving pain and restoring walking. The surgery takes one to two hours under general or spinal anesthesia; many patients now go home the same day or after one night, then spend several weeks in physical therapy.
What Is Total Hip Replacement?
Total hip replacement removes a worn or damaged hip joint, usually destroyed by arthritis, and replaces it with a metal, ceramic, and plastic implant. It is one of the most successful operations in medicine for relieving pain and restoring walking. The surgery takes one to two hours under general or spinal anesthesia; many patients now go home the same day or after one night, then spend several weeks in physical therapy.
What Affects the Cost
- –The implant itself is a major cost component, and prices vary widely between manufacturers and hospitals.
- –Same-day discharge at an ambulatory surgery center can cost dramatically less than an inpatient hospital stay.
- –Post-operative physical therapy, whether at home, outpatient, or in a rehab facility, is a significant separate expense over weeks.
- –The anesthesia team bills by time, and spinal versus general anesthesia can affect both cost and recovery.
- –Pre-surgical clearance testing, such as labs, an ECG, and imaging, generates its own set of charges.
- –Robotic-assisted or computer-navigated surgery may carry additional facility charges at some hospitals.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Am I a candidate for same-day or outpatient surgery, and how much would that reduce the facility charge?
- 2.What implant brand do you use, and does my choice affect what I pay?
- 3.Has prior authorization been approved, including documentation of the conservative care I already tried?
- 4.What will physical therapy cost after surgery, and how many visits does my plan cover?
- 5.Does my insurer have a designated joint replacement center with lower out-of-pocket costs?
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Total Hip Replacement in Massachusetts: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 27130 averages $1,207.01 across 2 Massachusetts localities, from $1,165.36 in REST OF MASSACHUSETTS to $1,248.67 in METROPOLITAN BOSTON. The hospital physician rate averages $1,207.01. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Massachusetts into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $83.31 from the lowest to highest locality. Look up your ZIP to see whether metro Boston or rest-of-state pricing applies, from Boston and Cambridge to Worcester, Springfield, the North and South Shores, and Cape Cod.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $241 for the office physician line or $241 for the hospital physician line in Massachusetts. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $1,207.01 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $14,279 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $10,776 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Massachusetts ranks #43 of 51 states on the physician line (4% above the national office rate of $1,162.02).