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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Repair of an extensor tendon in the foot, each tendon

CPT 28208the billing code this page is about

Surgical repair of a tendon that straightens the foot or toes, done as the first repair or a later repair; billed once for each tendon repaired.

Hospitals typically charge $2,800 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,079 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,826. Most fall between $796 and $5,751 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,079
States
49
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 1,079 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
$563$986$2,800$4,927$8,528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($563 vs $8,528).

How the prices are spread

$460 – $632: 84 hospitals$460$632 – $867: 103 hospitals$867 – $1,190: 79 hospitals$867$1,190 – $1,634: 96 hospitals$1,634 – $2,242: 82 hospitals$1,634$2,242 – $3,078: 82 hospitals$3,078 – $4,225: 157 hospitals$3,078$4,225 – $5,799: 133 hospitals$5,799 – $7,960: 92 hospitals$5,799$7,960 – $10,926: 74 hospitals$7,960median $2,800price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (982 of 1,079 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$460$63284
$632$867103
$867$1,19079
$1,190$1,63496
$1,634$2,24282
$2,242$3,07882
$3,078$4,225157
$4,225$5,799133
$5,799$7,96092
$7,960$10,92674

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,800
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $2,800.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $797 across 14 hospitalsME$797Vermont: median $856 across 10 hospitalsVT$856New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,683 across 39 hospitalsWA$1,683Idaho: median $3,417 across 14 hospitalsID$3,417Montana: median $743 across 14 hospitalsMT$743North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,484 across 36 hospitalsMN$1,484Illinois: median $2,536 across 38 hospitalsIL$2,536Wisconsin: median $1,818 across 39 hospitalsWI$1,818Michigan: median $739 across 35 hospitalsMI$739New York: median $3,840 across 60 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $5,093 across 12 hospitalsMA$5,093Oregon: median $1,317 across 32 hospitalsOR$1,317Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,072 across 31 hospitalsIA$1,072Indiana: median $2,174 across 24 hospitalsIN$2,174Ohio: median $1,450 across 23 hospitalsOH$1,450Pennsylvania: median $3,218 across 48 hospitalsPA$3,218New Jersey: median $4,078 across 36 hospitalsNJ$4,078Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,540 across 87 hospitalsCA$4,540Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,146 across 23 hospitalsCO$2,146Nebraska: median $1,172 across 27 hospitalsNE$1,172Missouri: median $713 across 16 hospitalsMO$713Kentucky: median $713 across 14 hospitalsKY$713West Virginia: median $859 across 20 hospitalsWV$859Virginia: median $3,024 across 44 hospitalsVA$3,024Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,276 across 12 hospitalsAZ$2,276New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $929 across 17 hospitalsKS$929Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,328 across 26 hospitalsTN$1,328North Carolina: median $813 across 10 hospitalsNC$813South Carolina: median $4,601 across 11 hospitalsSC$4,601Oklahoma: median $751 across 23 hospitalsOK$751Louisiana: median $2,485 across 16 hospitalsLA$2,485Mississippi: median $2,400 across 13 hospitalsMS$2,400Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,027 across 26 hospitalsGA$3,027Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,470 across 59 hospitalsTX$3,470Florida: median $4,810 across 38 hospitalsFL$4,810
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,800. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA12$5,093+82%$2,884 – $6,709
Florida FL38$4,810+72%$2,614 – $7,570
South Carolina SC11$4,601+64%$3,422 – $4,947
California CA87$4,540+62%$2,776 – $10,926
New Jersey NJ36$4,078+46%$3,591 – $5,741
New York NY60$3,840+37%$1,220 – $7,020
Texas TX59$3,470+24%$3,270 – $5,774
Idaho ID14$3,417+22%$556 – $8,372
Pennsylvania PA48$3,218+15%$463 – $6,017
Georgia GA26$3,027+8%$2,906 – $8,528
Virginia VA44$3,024+8%$1,328 – $5,076
Illinois IL38$2,536−9%$560 – $7,008
Louisiana LA16$2,485−11%$1,549 – $3,682
Mississippi MS13$2,400−14%$1,094 – $4,393
Arizona AZ12$2,276−19%$1,382 – $14,570
Indiana IN24$2,174−22%$460 – $16,289
Colorado CO23$2,146−23%$1,110 – $4,536
Wisconsin WI39$1,818−35%$1,202 – $1,927
Washington WA39$1,683−40%$800 – $7,298
Minnesota MN36$1,484−47%$686 – $2,041
Ohio OH23$1,450−48%$751 – $5,545
Tennessee TN26$1,328−53%$799 – $2,940
Oregon OR32$1,317−53%$878 – $1,963
Nebraska NE27$1,172−58%$844 – $2,880
Iowa IA31$1,072−62%$813 – $2,897
Kansas KS17$929−67%$523 – $2,511
West Virginia WV20$859−69%$335 – $3,982
Vermont VT10$856−69%$667 – $5,841
North Carolina NC10$813−71%$754 – $4,912
Maine ME14$797−72%$642 – $3,228
Oklahoma OK23$751−73%$533 – $6,458
Montana MT14$743−73%$528 – $1,448
Michigan MI35$739−74%$627 – $1,927
Kentucky KY14$713−75%$471 – $1,294
Missouri MO16$713−75%$633 – $988
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $2,800.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care798$3,470$996 – $6,458
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access262$1,220$649 – $3,462
Ownership
For-profit118$3,470$1,241 – $9,853
Government178$1,592$750 – $4,148
Non-profit782$2,776$796 – $5,635
System affiliation
Part of a system856$3,149$905 – $6,111
Independent223$1,415$646 – $3,989

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,628
Median cash price$2,800
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

705 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,958 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,091; most fall between $859 and $6,067.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 705 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
$533$1,136$2,958$5,486$8,528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($533 vs $8,528).

Of the 757 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 705 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,079 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 1,172 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,079
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,172

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 Repair Tendon Extensor Foot 1/2 Each Tendon.

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, “Repair of an extensor tendon in the foot, each tendon (CPT 28208) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28208-repair-of-an-extensor-tendon-in-the-foot-each-tendon