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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Draining a deep foot infection in one space

CPT 28002the billing code this page is about

Surgery to open and drain an infection lying beneath the tough tissue layer of the foot, limited to one bursal space or tendon sheath area.

Hospitals typically charge $1,273 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 818 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,545. Most fall between $556 and $3,400 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
818
States
50
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 818 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
$367$690$1,273$2,699$5,389

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($367 vs $5,389).

How the prices are spread

$230 – $326: 29 hospitals$230$326 – $463: 52 hospitals$463 – $658: 69 hospitals$463$658 – $935: 102 hospitals$935 – $1,329: 120 hospitals$935$1,329 – $1,888: 85 hospitals$1,888 – $2,683: 114 hospitals$1,888$2,683 – $3,812: 67 hospitals$3,812 – $5,416: 60 hospitals$3,812$5,416 – $7,694: 56 hospitals$5,416median $1,273price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (754 of 818 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$230$32629
$326$46352
$463$65869
$658$935102
$935$1,329120
$1,329$1,88885
$1,888$2,683114
$2,683$3,81267
$3,812$5,41660
$5,416$7,69456

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,273
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $1,273.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $926 across 21 hospitalsWA$926Idaho: median $2,500 across 13 hospitalsID$2,500Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $794 across 32 hospitalsMN$794Illinois: median $1,110 across 35 hospitalsIL$1,110Wisconsin: median $1,749 across 44 hospitalsWI$1,749Michigan: median $812 across 34 hospitalsMI$812New York: median $1,894 across 40 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,832 across 12 hospitalsMA$2,832Oregon: median $826 across 15 hospitalsOR$826Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,110 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,110Indiana: median $680 across 21 hospitalsIN$680Ohio: median $1,852 across 52 hospitalsOH$1,852Pennsylvania: median $1,876 across 34 hospitalsPA$1,876New Jersey: median $2,593 across 36 hospitalsNJ$2,593Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 55 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,791 across 16 hospitalsCO$1,791Nebraska: median $867 across 15 hospitalsNE$867Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $1,403 across 15 hospitalsKY$1,403West Virginia: median $154 across 16 hospitalsWV$154Virginia: median $2,441 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,441Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $859 across 13 hospitalsKS$859Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $767 across 11 hospitalsTN$767North Carolina: median $1,852 across 15 hospitalsNC$1,852South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $384 across 15 hospitalsOK$384Louisiana: median $2,148 across 17 hospitalsLA$2,148Mississippi: median $606 across 10 hospitalsMS$606Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,254 across 27 hospitalsGA$1,254Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,614 across 35 hospitalsTX$2,614Florida: median $2,920 across 12 hospitalsFL$2,920
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,273. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA55$4,914+286%$1,024 – $7,694
Florida FL12$2,920+129%$1,606 – $14,813
Massachusetts MA12$2,832+122%$1,366 – $6,709
Texas TX35$2,614+105%$1,052 – $3,645
New Jersey NJ36$2,593+104%$1,773 – $5,419
Idaho ID13$2,500+96%$374 – $4,436
Virginia VA10$2,441+92%$162 – $2,441
Louisiana LA17$2,148+69%$919 – $2,592
New York NY40$1,894+49%$651 – $3,252
Pennsylvania PA34$1,876+47%$163 – $2,968
Ohio OH52$1,852+45%$788 – $3,491
North Carolina NC15$1,852+45%$660 – $2,758
Colorado CO16$1,791+41%$451 – $2,231
Wisconsin WI44$1,749+37%$992 – $2,493
Kentucky KY15$1,403+10%$481 – $6,426
Georgia GA27$1,254−1%$1,254 – $6,307
Iowa IA30$1,110−13%$680 – $1,110
Illinois IL35$1,110−13%$495 – $5,389
Washington WA21$926−27%$443 – $1,434
Nebraska NE15$867−32%$500 – $1,048
Kansas KS13$859−33%$483 – $1,365
Oregon OR15$826−35%$443 – $826
Michigan MI34$812−36%$629 – $2,027
Minnesota MN32$794−38%$393 – $1,014
Tennessee TN11$767−40%$479 – $1,967
Indiana IN21$680−47%$495 – $2,699
Mississippi MS10$606−52%$322 – $1,026
Oklahoma OK15$384−70%$384 – $3,263
West Virginia WV16$154−88%$146 – $3,760
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,273.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care597$1,852$689 – $3,965
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access207$859$451 – $2,027
Ownership
For-profit72$1,864$715 – $4,513
Government159$1,109$481 – $2,420
Non-profit584$1,514$573 – $3,491
System affiliation
Part of a system641$1,643$639 – $3,645
Independent177$998$404 – $2,320

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,772
Median cash price$1,273
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

465 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,284 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,577; most fall between $490 and $3,274.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 465 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
$347$629$1,284$2,939$5,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($347 vs $5,934).

Of the 503 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 465 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

818 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 890 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted818
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code890

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 I&D Below Fascia Foot 1 Bursal Space.

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 deep foot infection in one space (CPT 28002) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28002-draining-a-deep-foot-infection-in-one-space