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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Release of tight tissue covering in the foot or toe

CPT 28008the billing code this page is about

The surgeon cuts the tough band of tissue surrounding foot or toe muscles to relieve pressure or tightness.

Hospitals typically charge $2,930 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 986 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,878. Most fall between $775 and $5,855 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
986
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 986 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
$490$937$2,930$4,914$8,618

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($490 vs $8,618).

How the prices are spread

$409 – $572: 76 hospitals$409$572 – $801: 87 hospitals$801 – $1,120: 86 hospitals$801$1,120 – $1,566: 71 hospitals$1,566 – $2,191: 60 hospitals$1,566$2,191 – $3,065: 79 hospitals$3,065 – $4,286: 153 hospitals$3,065$4,286 – $5,996: 129 hospitals$5,996 – $8,386: 86 hospitals$5,996$8,386 – $11,730: 61 hospitals$8,386median $2,930price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (888 of 986 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$409$57276
$572$80187
$801$1,12086
$1,120$1,56671
$1,566$2,19160
$2,191$3,06579
$3,065$4,286153
$4,286$5,996129
$5,996$8,38686
$8,386$11,73061

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,930
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $2,930.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $424 across 10 hospitalsNH$424Washington: median $2,250 across 24 hospitalsWA$2,250Idaho: median $3,947 across 14 hospitalsID$3,947Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,817 across 45 hospitalsMN$1,817Illinois: median $1,205 across 35 hospitalsIL$1,205Wisconsin: median $1,494 across 48 hospitalsWI$1,494Michigan: median $948 across 37 hospitalsMI$948New York: median $3,840 across 39 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $4,926 across 10 hospitalsMA$4,926Oregon: median $1,031 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,031Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,087 across 40 hospitalsIA$1,087Indiana: median $1,787 across 35 hospitalsIN$1,787Ohio: median $3,447 across 65 hospitalsOH$3,447Pennsylvania: median $4,272 across 64 hospitalsPA$4,272New Jersey: median $4,330 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 8 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 $6,572 across 63 hospitalsCA$6,572Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,718 across 21 hospitalsCO$2,718Nebraska: median $1,491 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,491Missouri: median $1,991 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,991Kentucky: median $1,047 across 14 hospitalsKY$1,047West Virginia: median $804 across 19 hospitalsWV$804Virginia: median $1,857 across 10 hospitalsVA$1,857Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,996 across 13 hospitalsAZ$1,996New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $895 across 13 hospitalsKS$895Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,975 across 15 hospitalsTN$3,975North Carolina: median $2,181 across 19 hospitalsNC$2,181South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $490 across 21 hospitalsOK$490Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,920 across 14 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $5,814 across 44 hospitalsGA$5,814Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,690 across 40 hospitalsTX$3,690Florida: median $4,637 across 21 hospitalsFL$4,637
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,930. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA63$6,572+124%$1,367 – $8,618
Georgia GA44$5,814+98%$1,438 – $8,303
Massachusetts MA10$4,926+68%$2,975 – $6,409
Florida FL21$4,637+58%$3,908 – $13,162
New Jersey NJ34$4,330+48%$3,594 – $5,741
Pennsylvania PA64$4,272+46%$1,965 – $5,565
Tennessee TN15$3,975+36%$402 – $4,659
Idaho ID14$3,947+35%$870 – $8,372
New York NY39$3,840+31%$719 – $4,590
Texas TX40$3,690+26%$2,653 – $5,837
Ohio OH65$3,447+18%$1,825 – $9,701
Alabama AL14$2,9200%$521 – $5,539
Colorado CO21$2,718−7%$1,269 – $7,546
Washington WA24$2,250−23%$778 – $5,578
North Carolina NC19$2,181−26%$809 – $3,894
Arizona AZ13$1,996−32%$478 – $5,065
Missouri MO19$1,991−32%$610 – $7,116
Virginia VA10$1,857−37%$200 – $4,188
Minnesota MN45$1,817−38%$742 – $3,361
Indiana IN35$1,787−39%$680 – $3,591
Wisconsin WI48$1,494−49%$969 – $2,930
Nebraska NE16$1,491−49%$750 – $3,142
Illinois IL35$1,205−59%$459 – $4,631
Iowa IA40$1,087−63%$791 – $3,888
Kentucky KY14$1,047−64%$459 – $13,028
Oregon OR18$1,031−65%$778 – $3,440
Michigan MI37$948−68%$413 – $4,499
Kansas KS13$895−69%$616 – $3,898
West Virginia WV19$804−73%$307 – $3,663
Oklahoma OK21$490−83%$490 – $3,122
New Hampshire NH10$424−86%$289 – $832
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,930.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care746$3,594$963 – $6,744
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access220$1,008$610 – $2,960
Ownership
For-profit116$4,201$1,140 – $8,303
Government179$1,453$698 – $4,637
Non-profit687$2,930$778 – $5,814
System affiliation
Part of a system797$3,142$833 – $6,572
Independent189$1,408$621 – $4,951

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,544
Median cash price$2,930
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

579 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,811 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,919; most fall between $775 and $6,653.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 579 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
$490$881$2,811$4,914$8,618

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($490 vs $8,618).

Of the 629 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 579 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

986 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,077 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted986
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,077

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 Fasciotomy Foot&/Toe.

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, “Release of tight tissue covering in the foot or toe (CPT 28008) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28008-release-of-tight-tissue-covering-in-the-foot-or-toe