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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of inflamed lining around a foot flexor tendon

CPT 28086the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove the inflamed sheath surrounding a tendon that bends the toes or foot downward.

Hospitals typically charge $2,101 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 384 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,298. Most fall between $779 and $4,851 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
384
States
45
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 384 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
$566$898$2,101$4,084$7,969

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($566 vs $7,969).

How the prices are spread

$366 – $507: 15 hospitals$366$507 – $703: 32 hospitals$703 – $973: 49 hospitals$703$973 – $1,348: 49 hospitals$1,348 – $1,868: 26 hospitals$1,348$1,868 – $2,588: 30 hospitals$2,588 – $3,585: 41 hospitals$2,588$3,585 – $4,967: 51 hospitals$4,967 – $6,881: 24 hospitals$4,967$6,881 – $9,532: 31 hospitals$6,881median $2,101price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (348 of 384 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$366$50715
$507$70332
$703$97349
$973$1,34849
$1,348$1,86826
$1,868$2,58830
$2,588$3,58541
$3,585$4,96751
$4,967$6,88124
$6,881$9,53231

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,101
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $2,101.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $2,685 across 17 hospitalsMN$2,685Illinois: median $779 across 15 hospitalsIL$779Wisconsin: median $2,551 across 31 hospitalsWI$2,551Michigan: median $2,551 across 12 hospitalsMI$2,551New York: median $3,840 across 25 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,359 across 13 hospitalsOR$1,359Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,334 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,334Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,279 across 18 hospitalsOH$1,279Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,969 across 25 hospitalsCA$7,969Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $580 across 13 hospitalsOK$580Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,317 across 22 hospitalsTX$3,317Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,101. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$7,969+279%$1,253 – $7,969
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+120%$3,591 – $8,289
New York NY25$3,840+83%$898 – $3,840
Texas TX22$3,317+58%$3,270 – $3,317
Minnesota MN17$2,685+28%$844 – $3,150
Michigan MI12$2,551+21%$449 – $4,499
Wisconsin WI31$2,551+21%$1,778 – $3,574
Pennsylvania PA20$2,382+13%$216 – $5,486
Oregon OR13$1,359−35%$944 – $1,775
Iowa IA19$1,334−37%$1,066 – $1,362
Ohio OH18$1,279−39%$1,018 – $19,964
Illinois IL15$779−63%$641 – $1,230
Oklahoma OK13$580−72%$580 – $580
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,101.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care293$2,438$779 – $5,299
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access82$1,775$793 – $4,125
Ownership
For-profit51$3,139$958 – $6,148
Government51$1,133$641 – $3,840
Non-profit281$2,178$779 – $4,851
System affiliation
Part of a system308$2,551$842 – $5,419
Independent76$1,133$631 – $3,139

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,968
Median cash price$2,101
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

210 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,334 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,783; most fall between $582 and $4,851.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 210 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
$507$677$1,334$3,317$7,969

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($507 vs $7,969).

Of the 237 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 210 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

384 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 429 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted384
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code429

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 Synovectomy Tendon Sheath Foot Flexor.

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, “Removal of inflamed lining around a foot flexor tendon (CPT 28086) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28086-removal-of-inflamed-lining-around-a-foot-flexor-tendon