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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of a deeply embedded foreign object from the foot

CPT 28193the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a foreign object lodged in the foot when the removal is complicated, such as an object buried in deep tissue requiring wider exposure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,742 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,080 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,771. Most fall between $800 and $3,515 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,080
States
50
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 1,080 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$889$1,742$3,028$4,765

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($566 vs $4,765).

How the prices are spread

$423 – $555: 51 hospitals$423$555 – $727: 78 hospitals$727 – $952: 121 hospitals$727$952 – $1,247: 94 hospitals$1,247 – $1,634: 122 hospitals$1,247$1,634 – $2,141: 186 hospitals$2,141 – $2,806: 97 hospitals$2,141$2,806 – $3,676: 69 hospitals$3,676 – $4,817: 103 hospitals$3,676$4,817 – $6,311: 54 hospitals$4,817median $1,742price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (975 of 1,080 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$423$55551
$555$72778
$727$952121
$952$1,24794
$1,247$1,634122
$1,634$2,141186
$2,141$2,80697
$2,806$3,67669
$3,676$4,817103
$4,817$6,31154

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,742
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 $1,742.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 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 $3,028 across 28 hospitalsWA$3,028Idaho: median $4,347 across 10 hospitalsID$4,347Montana: 9 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 $923 across 22 hospitalsMN$923Illinois: median $1,122 across 31 hospitalsIL$1,122Wisconsin: median $1,854 across 42 hospitalsWI$1,854Michigan: median $784 across 44 hospitalsMI$784New York: median $1,917 across 47 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $3,996 across 19 hospitalsMA$3,996Oregon: median $1,395 across 26 hospitalsOR$1,395Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,234 across 12 hospitalsSD$2,234Iowa: median $1,330 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,330Indiana: median $900 across 31 hospitalsIN$900Ohio: median $2,117 across 53 hospitalsOH$2,117Pennsylvania: median $1,680 across 29 hospitalsPA$1,680New Jersey: median $2,162 across 37 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $2,312 across 13 hospitalsCT$2,312Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 90 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: median $401 across 22 hospitalsUT$401Colorado: median $2,225 across 14 hospitalsCO$2,225Nebraska: median $1,248 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,248Missouri: median $875 across 19 hospitalsMO$875Kentucky: median $716 across 12 hospitalsKY$716West Virginia: median $997 across 10 hospitalsWV$997Virginia: median $1,275 across 15 hospitalsVA$1,275Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $6,992 across 12 hospitalsAZ$6,992New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $919 across 26 hospitalsKS$919Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $846 across 12 hospitalsTN$846North Carolina: median $1,939 across 21 hospitalsNC$1,939South Carolina: median $1,758 across 15 hospitalsSC$1,758Oklahoma: median $760 across 24 hospitalsOK$760Louisiana: median $798 across 19 hospitalsLA$798Mississippi: median $1,012 across 28 hospitalsMS$1,012Alabama: median $1,322 across 10 hospitalsAL$1,322Georgia: median $2,312 across 42 hospitalsGA$2,312Hawaii: median $2,964 across 10 hospitalsHI$2,964Texas: median $1,962 across 70 hospitalsTX$1,962Florida: median $4,731 across 50 hospitalsFL$4,731
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,742. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ12$6,992+301%$1,839 – $6,992
Florida FL50$4,731+172%$1,197 – $6,055
Idaho ID10$4,347+149%$1,163 – $4,564
Massachusetts MA19$3,996+129%$1,865 – $6,833
California CA90$3,323+91%$1,564 – $3,903
Washington WA28$3,028+74%$942 – $4,325
Hawaii HI10$2,964+70%$1,494 – $3,869
Connecticut CT13$2,312+33%$1,601 – $3,422
Georgia GA42$2,312+33%$2,312 – $4,135
South Dakota SD12$2,234+28%$1,544 – $2,680
Colorado CO14$2,225+28%$951 – $4,371
New Jersey NJ37$2,162+24%$1,793 – $5,339
Ohio OH53$2,117+22%$1,056 – $4,844
Texas TX70$1,962+13%$1,337 – $2,060
North Carolina NC21$1,939+11%$895 – $3,207
New York NY47$1,917+10%$884 – $4,172
Wisconsin WI42$1,854+6%$1,472 – $1,892
South Carolina SC15$1,758+1%$1,072 – $5,319
Pennsylvania PA29$1,680−4%$238 – $3,314
Oregon OR26$1,395−20%$945 – $1,990
Iowa IA25$1,330−24%$882 – $1,562
Alabama AL10$1,322−24%$736 – $2,048
Virginia VA15$1,275−27%$837 – $2,749
Nebraska NE17$1,248−28%$880 – $1,895
Illinois IL31$1,122−36%$641 – $1,888
Mississippi MS28$1,012−42%$569 – $1,651
West Virginia WV10$997−43%$382 – $2,506
Minnesota MN22$923−47%$592 – $1,896
Kansas KS26$919−47%$579 – $2,076
Indiana IN31$900−48%$571 – $1,291
Missouri MO19$875−50%$778 – $1,920
Tennessee TN12$846−51%$498 – $1,056
Louisiana LA19$798−54%$526 – $1,801
Michigan MI44$784−55%$776 – $1,660
Oklahoma OK24$760−56%$608 – $1,907
Kentucky KY12$716−59%$571 – $1,720
Utah UT22$401−77%$329 – $438
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,742.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care812$1,907$837 – $3,938
Children’s25$2,048$815 – $3,289
Critical access243$1,330$644 – $1,980
Ownership
For-profit101$2,312$880 – $5,184
Government191$1,265$641 – $2,302
Non-profit788$1,793$826 – $3,527
System affiliation
Part of a system870$1,854$830 – $3,903
Independent210$1,214$665 – $2,429

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,668
Median cash price$1,742
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

763 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,892 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,959; most fall between $838 and $3,903.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 763 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
$571$951$1,892$3,366$4,844

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($571 vs $4,844).

Of the 819 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 763 gave a usable cash price; 21 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

1,080 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,166 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,080
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,166

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 Removal Foreign Body Foot Complicated.

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 embedded foreign object from the foot (CPT 28193) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28193-removal-of-a-deeply-embedded-foreign-object-from-the-foot