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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Draining a fluid sac (bursa) in the foot

CPT 28001the billing code this page is about

A small cut is made over an inflamed or infected bursa in the foot to drain the fluid inside.

Hospitals typically charge $1,012 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 645 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,212. Most fall between $346 and $2,540 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
645
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 645 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$257$410$1,012$2,245$4,117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($257 vs $4,117).

How the prices are spread

$176 – $243: 22 hospitals$176$243 – $337: 68 hospitals$337 – $467: 64 hospitals$337$467 – $648: 65 hospitals$648 – $898: 47 hospitals$648$898 – $1,245: 53 hospitals$1,245 – $1,726: 43 hospitals$1,245$1,726 – $2,393: 114 hospitals$2,393 – $3,317: 50 hospitals$2,393$3,317 – $4,598: 58 hospitals$3,317median $1,012price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (584 of 645 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$176$24322
$243$33768
$337$46764
$467$64865
$648$89847
$898$1,24553
$1,245$1,72643
$1,726$2,393114
$2,393$3,31750
$3,317$4,59858

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,012
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.60×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,012.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $583 across 17 hospitalsMN$583Illinois: median $611 across 20 hospitalsIL$611Wisconsin: median $950 across 29 hospitalsWI$950Michigan: median $430 across 41 hospitalsMI$430New York: median $1,917 across 38 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,314 across 11 hospitalsMA$2,314Oregon: median $574 across 16 hospitalsOR$574Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $699 across 22 hospitalsIA$699Indiana: median $380 across 16 hospitalsIN$380Ohio: median $1,381 across 25 hospitalsOH$1,381Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 37 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $3,936 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,936Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,272 across 44 hospitalsCA$2,272Utah: median $369 across 20 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $2,245 across 12 hospitalsCO$2,245Nebraska: median $556 across 13 hospitalsNE$556Missouri: median $794 across 14 hospitalsMO$794Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $102 across 10 hospitalsWV$102Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $441 across 15 hospitalsKS$441Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $260 across 15 hospitalsOK$260Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,814 across 40 hospitalsTX$1,814Florida: median $1,544 across 12 hospitalsFL$1,544
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,012. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ34$3,936+289%$1,795 – $6,296
Massachusetts MA11$2,314+129%$1,187 – $2,441
California CA44$2,272+125%$1,963 – $4,598
Colorado CO12$2,245+122%$649 – $4,371
New York NY38$1,917+89%$372 – $2,062
Pennsylvania PA37$1,900+88%$94 – $2,383
Texas TX40$1,814+79%$1,814 – $2,540
Florida FL12$1,544+53%$689 – $1,971
Ohio OH25$1,381+36%$436 – $2,626
Wisconsin WI29$950−6%$538 – $1,163
Missouri MO14$794−22%$266 – $1,284
Iowa IA22$699−31%$527 – $699
Illinois IL20$611−40%$290 – $1,790
Minnesota MN17$583−42%$497 – $846
Oregon OR16$574−43%$309 – $686
Nebraska NE13$556−45%$436 – $1,948
Kansas KS15$441−56%$259 – $1,371
Michigan MI41$430−57%$257 – $1,912
Indiana IN16$380−62%$290 – $2,734
Utah UT20$369−64%$362 – $411
Oklahoma OK15$260−74%$260 – $1,139
West Virginia WV10$102−90%$100 – $238
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,012.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care482$1,500$366 – $2,626
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access151$561$328 – $1,396
Ownership
For-profit62$1,688$366 – $2,681
Government118$822$349 – $1,971
Non-profit463$950$339 – $2,572
System affiliation
Part of a system506$1,070$362 – $2,540
Independent139$877$326 – $2,114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,443
Median cash price$1,012
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

404 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,041 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,234; most fall between $339 and $2,591.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 404 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$260$382$1,041$2,272$4,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($260 vs $4,210).

Of the 451 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 404 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

645 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 726 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted645
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code726

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Incision&Drainage Bursa Foot.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Draining a fluid sac (bursa) in the foot (CPT 28001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28001-draining-a-fluid-sac-bursa-in-the-foot