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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of a deeply lodged foreign object in the foot

CPT 28192the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out an object embedded deep in the foot, below the layer of tissue under the skin.

Hospitals typically charge $1,673 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,815 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,899. Most fall between $751 and $3,934 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,815
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 1,815 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
$476$881$1,673$3,339$5,609

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($476 vs $5,609).

How the prices are spread

$382 – $514: 122 hospitals$382$514 – $692: 120 hospitals$692 – $931: 144 hospitals$692$931 – $1,252: 172 hospitals$1,252 – $1,685: 262 hospitals$1,252$1,685 – $2,267: 215 hospitals$2,267 – $3,049: 179 hospitals$2,267$3,049 – $4,102: 176 hospitals$4,102 – $5,519: 149 hospitals$4,102$5,519 – $7,425: 96 hospitals$5,519median $1,673price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,635 of 1,815 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$382$514122
$514$692120
$692$931144
$931$1,252172
$1,252$1,685262
$1,685$2,267215
$2,267$3,049179
$3,049$4,102176
$4,102$5,519149
$5,519$7,42596

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,673
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $1,673.

Alaska: median $2,203 across 10 hospitalsAK$2,203Maine: median $795 across 16 hospitalsME$795Vermont: median $1,084 across 11 hospitalsVT$1,084New Hampshire: median $803 across 13 hospitalsNH$803Washington: median $1,842 across 51 hospitalsWA$1,842Idaho: median $1,854 across 18 hospitalsID$1,854Montana: median $558 across 14 hospitalsMT$558North Dakota: median $1,664 across 13 hospitalsND$1,664Minnesota: median $1,183 across 64 hospitalsMN$1,183Illinois: median $1,563 across 70 hospitalsIL$1,563Wisconsin: median $1,317 across 60 hospitalsWI$1,317Michigan: median $1,014 across 51 hospitalsMI$1,014New York: median $2,062 across 75 hospitalsNY$2,062Massachusetts: median $3,420 across 24 hospitalsMA$3,420Oregon: median $1,317 across 43 hospitalsOR$1,317Nevada: median $1,469 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,469Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $3,139 across 18 hospitalsSD$3,139Iowa: median $1,171 across 53 hospitalsIA$1,171Indiana: median $1,440 across 54 hospitalsIN$1,440Ohio: median $2,539 across 66 hospitalsOH$2,539Pennsylvania: median $2,506 across 73 hospitalsPA$2,506New Jersey: median $4,616 across 48 hospitalsNJ$4,616Connecticut: median $1,873 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,873Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 107 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: median $891 across 29 hospitalsUT$891Colorado: median $2,255 across 33 hospitalsCO$2,255Nebraska: median $1,112 across 33 hospitalsNE$1,112Missouri: median $1,646 across 41 hospitalsMO$1,646Kentucky: median $1,635 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,635West Virginia: median $1,456 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,456Virginia: median $2,363 across 35 hospitalsVA$2,363Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,027 across 21 hospitalsAZ$2,027New Mexico: median $1,387 across 17 hospitalsNM$1,387Kansas: median $890 across 36 hospitalsKS$890Arkansas: median $1,098 across 19 hospitalsAR$1,098Tennessee: median $492 across 35 hospitalsTN$492North Carolina: median $1,948 across 45 hospitalsNC$1,948South Carolina: median $3,387 across 34 hospitalsSC$3,387Oklahoma: median $1,128 across 36 hospitalsOK$1,128Louisiana: median $1,761 across 25 hospitalsLA$1,761Mississippi: median $938 across 33 hospitalsMS$938Alabama: median $1,414 across 21 hospitalsAL$1,414Georgia: median $1,559 across 67 hospitalsGA$1,559Hawaii: median $3,869 across 10 hospitalsHI$3,869Texas: median $1,772 across 130 hospitalsTX$1,772Florida: median $4,731 across 68 hospitalsFL$4,731
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,673. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL68$4,731+183%$2,530 – $7,799
New Jersey NJ48$4,616+176%$1,793 – $6,435
Hawaii HI10$3,869+131%$1,494 – $3,919
Massachusetts MA24$3,420+104%$1,353 – $5,537
South Carolina SC34$3,387+102%$2,834 – $4,949
California CA107$3,323+99%$1,404 – $6,485
South Dakota SD18$3,139+88%$417 – $3,934
Ohio OH66$2,539+52%$692 – $4,844
Pennsylvania PA73$2,506+50%$659 – $3,771
Virginia VA35$2,363+41%$733 – $2,749
Colorado CO33$2,255+35%$1,160 – $4,371
Alaska AK10$2,203+32%$973 – $5,461
New York NY75$2,062+23%$900 – $4,117
Arizona AZ21$2,027+21%$485 – $11,858
North Carolina NC45$1,948+16%$1,140 – $2,206
Connecticut CT15$1,873+12%$975 – $3,272
Idaho ID18$1,854+11%$672 – $3,613
Washington WA51$1,842+10%$660 – $4,420
Texas TX130$1,772+6%$1,252 – $4,011
Louisiana LA25$1,761+5%$848 – $2,267
North Dakota ND13$1,664−1%$719 – $2,641
Missouri MO41$1,646−2%$677 – $2,775
Kentucky KY23$1,635−2%$460 – $2,959
Illinois IL70$1,563−7%$731 – $3,757
Georgia GA67$1,559−7%$1,341 – $5,507
Nevada NV11$1,469−12%$1,174 – $1,796
West Virginia WV25$1,456−13%$326 – $2,369
Indiana IN54$1,440−14%$623 – $1,908
Alabama AL21$1,414−15%$1,062 – $3,871
New Mexico NM17$1,387−17%$1,146 – $2,361
Oregon OR43$1,317−21%$834 – $2,706
Wisconsin WI60$1,317−21%$1,218 – $1,836
Minnesota MN64$1,183−29%$677 – $1,667
Iowa IA53$1,171−30%$555 – $2,399
Oklahoma OK36$1,128−33%$674 – $2,592
Nebraska NE33$1,112−34%$481 – $2,058
Arkansas AR19$1,098−34%$781 – $4,341
Vermont VT11$1,084−35%$690 – $3,690
Michigan MI51$1,014−39%$413 – $2,271
Mississippi MS33$938−44%$531 – $1,376
Utah UT29$891−47%$831 – $1,219
Kansas KS36$890−47%$509 – $1,578
New Hampshire NH13$803−52%$302 – $2,068
Maine ME16$795−52%$485 – $1,629
Montana MT14$558−67%$343 – $1,436
Tennessee TN35$492−71%$419 – $938
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,673.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,305$1,918$881 – $4,633
Children’s33$3,424$1,147 – $7,425
Critical access474$1,122$560 – $2,210
Ownership
For-profit190$2,218$1,082 – $5,346
Government349$1,322$630 – $2,531
Non-profit1,273$1,771$783 – $4,011
System affiliation
Part of a system1,449$1,814$834 – $4,198
Independent366$1,260$600 – $2,451

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,197
Median cash price$1,673
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

1,293 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,790 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,070; most fall between $836 and $4,165.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,293 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
$531$1,003$1,790$3,582$5,678

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($531 vs $5,678).

Of the 1,394 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,293 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,815 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,955 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,815
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
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 — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code1,955

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 Remv Foot Foreign Body,Deep.

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 deeply lodged foreign object in the foot (CPT 28192) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28192-removal-of-a-deeply-lodged-foreign-object-in-the-foot