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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Cutting a toe tendon through the skin, one tendon

CPT 28010the billing code this page is about

A needle or small blade is passed through the skin to cut one tight tendon in a toe, usually to straighten it. Covers a single tendon.

Hospitals typically charge $1,700 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,331 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,721. Most fall between $482 and $3,297 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,331
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 1,331 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
$327$602$1,700$2,967$4,755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($327 vs $4,755).

How the prices are spread

$237 – $328: 81 hospitals$237$328 – $456: 106 hospitals$456 – $632: 96 hospitals$456$632 – $877: 103 hospitals$877 – $1,217: 95 hospitals$877$1,217 – $1,689: 118 hospitals$1,689 – $2,343: 212 hospitals$1,689$2,343 – $3,252: 185 hospitals$3,252 – $4,512: 128 hospitals$3,252$4,512 – $6,261: 81 hospitals$4,512median $1,700price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,205 of 1,331 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$237$32881
$328$456106
$456$63296
$632$877103
$877$1,21795
$1,217$1,689118
$1,689$2,343212
$2,343$3,252185
$3,252$4,512128
$4,512$6,26181

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,700
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $1,700.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $365 across 10 hospitalsVT$365New Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,222 across 38 hospitalsWA$1,222Idaho: median $2,790 across 17 hospitalsID$2,790Montana: 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 $741 across 52 hospitalsMN$741Illinois: median $936 across 48 hospitalsIL$936Wisconsin: median $744 across 56 hospitalsWI$744Michigan: median $1,700 across 57 hospitalsMI$1,700New York: median $1,894 across 54 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,708 across 20 hospitalsMA$2,708Oregon: median $448 across 26 hospitalsOR$448Nevada: median $939 across 10 hospitalsNV$939Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,714 across 14 hospitalsSD$1,714Iowa: median $584 across 40 hospitalsIA$584Indiana: median $1,704 across 46 hospitalsIN$1,704Ohio: median $2,825 across 92 hospitalsOH$2,825Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 72 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $2,136 across 43 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: median $2,531 across 13 hospitalsCT$2,531Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,297 across 76 hospitalsCA$3,297Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,644 across 25 hospitalsCO$1,644Nebraska: median $489 across 24 hospitalsNE$489Missouri: median $2,015 across 33 hospitalsMO$2,015Kentucky: median $1,550 across 19 hospitalsKY$1,550West Virginia: median $1,102 across 22 hospitalsWV$1,102Virginia: median $2,640 across 33 hospitalsVA$2,640Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,973 across 20 hospitalsAZ$1,973New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $507 across 28 hospitalsKS$507Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $754 across 22 hospitalsTN$754North Carolina: median $862 across 21 hospitalsNC$862South Carolina: median $2,476 across 19 hospitalsSC$2,476Oklahoma: median $1,285 across 26 hospitalsOK$1,285Louisiana: median $2,204 across 21 hospitalsLA$2,204Mississippi: median $518 across 10 hospitalsMS$518Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,936 across 37 hospitalsGA$2,936Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,293 across 80 hospitalsTX$2,293Florida: median $2,282 across 27 hospitalsFL$2,282
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,700. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA76$3,297+94%$1,531 – $4,973
Georgia GA37$2,936+73%$1,960 – $6,975
Ohio OH92$2,825+66%$1,359 – $4,278
Idaho ID17$2,790+64%$442 – $3,644
Massachusetts MA20$2,708+59%$798 – $4,755
Virginia VA33$2,640+55%$739 – $3,506
Connecticut CT13$2,531+49%$1,120 – $3,796
South Carolina SC19$2,476+46%$2,476 – $4,601
Texas TX80$2,293+35%$1,082 – $2,982
Florida FL27$2,282+34%$796 – $5,689
Louisiana LA21$2,204+30%$1,129 – $2,669
New Jersey NJ43$2,136+26%$1,771 – $5,855
Missouri MO33$2,015+19%$362 – $4,352
Arizona AZ20$1,973+16%$457 – $4,450
Pennsylvania PA72$1,900+12%$953 – $2,645
New York NY54$1,894+11%$687 – $2,855
South Dakota SD14$1,714+1%$687 – $3,941
Indiana IN46$1,7040%$480 – $3,164
Michigan MI57$1,7000%$237 – $3,596
Colorado CO25$1,644−3%$496 – $2,532
Kentucky KY19$1,550−9%$473 – $6,426
Oklahoma OK26$1,285−24%$346 – $3,263
Washington WA38$1,222−28%$434 – $3,666
West Virginia WV22$1,102−35%$217 – $2,010
Nevada NV10$939−45%$759 – $1,532
Illinois IL48$936−45%$369 – $3,137
North Carolina NC21$862−49%$192 – $2,244
Tennessee TN22$754−56%$411 – $1,842
Wisconsin WI56$744−56%$641 – $1,246
Minnesota MN52$741−56%$422 – $2,044
Iowa IA40$584−66%$433 – $1,408
Mississippi MS10$518−70%$440 – $2,841
Kansas KS28$507−70%$293 – $1,943
Nebraska NE24$489−71%$300 – $1,355
Oregon OR26$448−74%$384 – $1,019
Vermont VT10$365−79%$219 – $984
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not 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 $1,700.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,009$1,980$697 – $3,666
Children’s21$1,630$551 – $6,019
Critical access297$585$327 – $1,729
Ownership
For-profit121$2,299$786 – $4,450
Government218$800$383 – $2,079
Non-profit988$1,771$544 – $3,397
System affiliation
Part of a system1,084$1,812$569 – $3,347
Independent247$962$381 – $2,790

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,130
Median cash price$1,700
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

902 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,900 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,873; most fall between $584 and $3,386.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 902 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
$346$744$1,900$3,025$4,755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($346 vs $4,755).

Of the 962 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 902 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,331 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,442 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,331
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
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 — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code1,442

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 PR Incision Subcut Toe Tendon.

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, “Cutting a toe tendon through the skin, one tendon (CPT 28010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28010-cutting-a-toe-tendon-through-the-skin-one-tendon