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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Deep removal of small soft tissue growth in foot

CPT 28045the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue growth smaller than 1.5 cm located beneath the covering layer of tissue or within the muscle of the foot or toe.

Hospitals typically charge $1,709 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 578 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,947. Most fall between $680 and $4,117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
578
States
48
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 578 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
$473$813$1,709$3,448$6,472

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($473 vs $6,472).

How the prices are spread

$372 – $503: 40 hospitals$372$503 – $681: 49 hospitals$681 – $922: 62 hospitals$681$922 – $1,248: 65 hospitals$1,248 – $1,690: 43 hospitals$1,248$1,690 – $2,288: 59 hospitals$2,288 – $3,097: 42 hospitals$2,288$3,097 – $4,192: 76 hospitals$4,192 – $5,675: 39 hospitals$4,192$5,675 – $7,683: 47 hospitals$5,675median $1,709price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (522 of 578 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$372$50340
$503$68149
$681$92262
$922$1,24865
$1,248$1,69043
$1,690$2,28859
$2,288$3,09742
$3,097$4,19276
$4,192$5,67539
$5,675$7,68347

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$1,709
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

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 $1,709.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,054 across 17 hospitalsWA$1,054Idaho: median $2,790 across 12 hospitalsID$2,790Montana: 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 $1,574 across 22 hospitalsMN$1,574Illinois: median $1,048 across 26 hospitalsIL$1,048Wisconsin: median $2,262 across 32 hospitalsWI$2,262Michigan: median $469 across 33 hospitalsMI$469New York: median $3,387 across 33 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,438 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,438Nevada: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,222 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,222Indiana: median $617 across 14 hospitalsIN$617Ohio: median $1,417 across 20 hospitalsOH$1,417Pennsylvania: median $3,349 across 21 hospitalsPA$3,349New Jersey: median $3,819 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,683 across 34 hospitalsCA$7,683Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $725 across 12 hospitalsMO$725Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $936 across 18 hospitalsWV$936Virginia: median $1,689 across 13 hospitalsVA$1,689Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $578 across 14 hospitalsOK$578Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,210 across 12 hospitalsGA$6,210Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,156 across 30 hospitalsTX$3,156Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,709. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA34$7,683+350%$1,434 – $7,683
Georgia GA12$6,210+263%$4,076 – $6,653
New Jersey NJ33$3,819+123%$3,168 – $5,419
New York NY33$3,387+98%$818 – $3,448
Pennsylvania PA21$3,349+96%$228 – $4,839
Texas TX30$3,156+85%$1,465 – $3,156
Idaho ID12$2,790+63%$1,236 – $7,765
Wisconsin WI32$2,262+32%$1,759 – $2,466
Virginia VA13$1,689−1%$234 – $4,875
Minnesota MN22$1,574−8%$840 – $1,847
Oregon OR17$1,438−16%$879 – $1,610
Ohio OH20$1,417−17%$703 – $5,482
Iowa IA27$1,222−28%$933 – $1,607
Washington WA17$1,054−38%$779 – $2,877
Illinois IL26$1,048−39%$543 – $2,337
West Virginia WV18$936−45%$366 – $3,907
Missouri MO12$725−58%$677 – $2,401
Indiana IN14$617−64%$516 – $4,461
Oklahoma OK14$578−66%$578 – $5,835
Michigan MI33$469−73%$433 – $2,262
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,709.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care419$2,255$710 – $4,875
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access149$1,160$622 – $2,262
Ownership
For-profit58$2,790$828 – $6,067
Government102$1,434$792 – $3,387
Non-profit417$1,617$622 – $3,994
System affiliation
Part of a system442$1,847$677 – $4,496
Independent136$1,236$693 – $3,368

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,789
Median cash price$1,709
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

307 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,408 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,779; most fall between $621 and $4,504.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 307 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
$513$698$1,408$3,156$7,683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($513 vs $7,683).

Of the 349 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 307 gave a usable cash price; 19 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

578 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 644 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted578
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code644

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 Exc Tumor Soft Tissue Foot/Toe Subfasc <1.5cm.

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, “Deep removal of small soft tissue growth in foot (CPT 28045) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28045-deep-removal-of-small-soft-tissue-growth-in-foot