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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Removal of a foreign object just under the skin of the foot

CPT 28190the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out a splinter, glass, or other object lodged in the tissue beneath the skin of the foot.

Hospitals typically charge $772 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,533 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $849. Most fall between $353 and $1,637 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,533
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 2,533 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
$237$432$772$1,402$2,579

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($237 vs $2,579).

How the prices are spread

$164 – $225: 115 hospitals$164$225 – $310: 190 hospitals$310 – $425: 196 hospitals$310$425 – $584: 281 hospitals$584 – $801: 411 hospitals$584$801 – $1,100: 330 hospitals$1,100 – $1,510: 321 hospitals$1,100$1,510 – $2,074: 219 hospitals$2,074 – $2,847: 138 hospitals$2,074$2,847 – $3,909: 94 hospitals$2,847median $772price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,295 of 2,533 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$164$225115
$225$310190
$310$425196
$425$584281
$584$801411
$801$1,100330
$1,100$1,510321
$1,510$2,074219
$2,074$2,847138
$2,847$3,90994

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$772
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $772.

Alaska: median $990 across 16 hospitalsAK$990Maine: median $394 across 22 hospitalsME$394Vermont: median $597 across 12 hospitalsVT$597New Hampshire: median $317 across 17 hospitalsNH$317Washington: median $810 across 68 hospitalsWA$810Idaho: median $576 across 22 hospitalsID$576Montana: median $401 across 25 hospitalsMT$401North Dakota: median $908 across 23 hospitalsND$908Minnesota: median $857 across 80 hospitalsMN$857Illinois: median $655 across 106 hospitalsIL$655Wisconsin: median $710 across 83 hospitalsWI$710Michigan: median $753 across 79 hospitalsMI$753New York: median $833 across 95 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $996 across 40 hospitalsMA$996Oregon: median $506 across 52 hospitalsOR$506Nevada: median $663 across 16 hospitalsNV$663Wyoming: median $420 across 14 hospitalsWY$420South Dakota: median $666 across 28 hospitalsSD$666Iowa: median $522 across 80 hospitalsIA$522Indiana: median $623 across 54 hospitalsIN$623Ohio: median $919 across 106 hospitalsOH$919Pennsylvania: median $871 across 118 hospitalsPA$871New Jersey: median $939 across 51 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: median $1,117 across 21 hospitalsCT$1,117Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,789 across 132 hospitalsCA$1,789Utah: median $1,292 across 31 hospitalsUT$1,292Colorado: median $679 across 47 hospitalsCO$679Nebraska: median $548 across 61 hospitalsNE$548Missouri: median $510 across 56 hospitalsMO$510Kentucky: median $709 across 50 hospitalsKY$709West Virginia: median $814 across 35 hospitalsWV$814Virginia: median $1,179 across 53 hospitalsVA$1,179Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $525 across 25 hospitalsAZ$525New Mexico: median $704 across 23 hospitalsNM$704Kansas: median $464 across 69 hospitalsKS$464Arkansas: median $501 across 26 hospitalsAR$501Tennessee: median $416 across 49 hospitalsTN$416North Carolina: median $730 across 56 hospitalsNC$730South Carolina: median $1,041 across 45 hospitalsSC$1,041Oklahoma: median $565 across 61 hospitalsOK$565Louisiana: median $517 across 43 hospitalsLA$517Mississippi: median $460 across 49 hospitalsMS$460Alabama: median $906 across 33 hospitalsAL$906Georgia: median $1,056 across 86 hospitalsGA$1,056Hawaii: median $1,680 across 15 hospitalsHI$1,680Texas: median $912 across 167 hospitalsTX$912Florida: median $1,799 across 76 hospitalsFL$1,799
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $772. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL76$1,799+133%$769 – $3,385
California CA132$1,789+132%$739 – $3,909
Hawaii HI15$1,680+118%$272 – $2,335
Utah UT31$1,292+67%$686 – $1,520
Virginia VA53$1,179+53%$308 – $1,421
Connecticut CT21$1,117+45%$710 – $2,290
Georgia GA86$1,056+37%$583 – $4,609
South Carolina SC45$1,041+35%$429 – $2,061
Massachusetts MA40$996+29%$614 – $1,950
Alaska AK16$990+28%$426 – $1,637
New Jersey NJ51$939+22%$779 – $4,928
Ohio OH106$919+19%$496 – $1,763
Texas TX167$912+18%$596 – $1,402
North Dakota ND23$908+18%$572 – $1,230
Alabama AL33$906+17%$498 – $1,729
Pennsylvania PA118$871+13%$462 – $2,124
Minnesota MN80$857+11%$354 – $1,278
New York NY95$833+8%$352 – $1,994
West Virginia WV35$814+5%$330 – $1,057
Washington WA68$810+5%$392 – $1,900
Michigan MI79$753−2%$171 – $1,432
North Carolina NC56$730−5%$419 – $1,078
Wisconsin WI83$710−8%$425 – $1,318
Kentucky KY50$709−8%$293 – $2,825
New Mexico NM23$704−9%$220 – $1,217
Colorado CO47$679−12%$342 – $1,346
South Dakota SD28$666−14%$336 – $1,263
Nevada NV16$663−14%$548 – $891
Illinois IL106$655−15%$379 – $1,318
Indiana IN54$623−19%$371 – $1,382
Vermont VT12$597−23%$307 – $1,570
Idaho ID22$576−25%$248 – $1,465
Oklahoma OK61$565−27%$316 – $1,189
Nebraska NE61$548−29%$396 – $1,024
Arizona AZ25$525−32%$269 – $2,595
Iowa IA80$522−32%$276 – $929
Louisiana LA43$517−33%$262 – $855
Missouri MO56$510−34%$306 – $1,550
Oregon OR52$506−35%$328 – $1,252
Arkansas AR26$501−35%$295 – $779
Kansas KS69$464−40%$214 – $1,290
Mississippi MS49$460−40%$303 – $808
Wyoming WY14$420−46%$170 – $1,069
Tennessee TN49$416−46%$303 – $1,014
Montana MT25$401−48%$226 – $698
Maine ME22$394−49%$151 – $923
New Hampshire NH17$317−59%$127 – $757
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $772.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,714$887$453 – $1,971
Children’s44$873$352 – $2,533
Critical access769$538$273 – $1,097
Ownership
For-profit251$1,068$464 – $2,772
Government531$566$303 – $1,108
Non-profit1,745$808$384 – $1,662
System affiliation
Part of a system2,002$815$410 – $1,766
Independent531$594$282 – $1,262

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,420
Median cash price$772
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

1,844 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $855 and the average of the middle 60% is $953; most fall between $414 and $1,826.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,844 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
$267$496$855$1,550$2,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($267 vs $2,453).

Of the 1,977 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,844 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,533 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,716 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,533
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded94
Hospitals that filed this code2,716

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 July 20, 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 OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Foreign Body Foot Subcutaneous.

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 a foreign object just under the skin of the foot (CPT 28190) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28190-removal-of-a-foreign-object-just-under-the-skin-of-the-foot