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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Release of scar tissue around one foot flexor tendon

CPT 28220the billing code this page is about

Surgery to free a single tendon that bends the foot or toes from surrounding scar tissue or adhesions so it can glide again.

Hospitals typically charge $1,543 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 408 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,587. Most fall between $662 and $3,263 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
408
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 408 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
$422$763$1,543$2,597$6,183

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($422 vs $6,183).

How the prices are spread

$330 – $458: 26 hospitals$330$458 – $636: 31 hospitals$636 – $882: 51 hospitals$636$882 – $1,224: 49 hospitals$1,224 – $1,699: 38 hospitals$1,224$1,699 – $2,357: 78 hospitals$2,357 – $3,271: 34 hospitals$2,357$3,271 – $4,540: 15 hospitals$4,540 – $6,299: 28 hospitals$4,540$6,299 – $8,742: 26 hospitals$6,299median $1,543price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (376 of 408 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$330$45826
$458$63631
$636$88251
$882$1,22449
$1,224$1,69938
$1,699$2,35778
$2,357$3,27134
$3,271$4,54015
$4,540$6,29928
$6,299$8,74226

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,543
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.94×

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 $1,543.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,719 across 15 hospitalsMN$1,719Illinois: median $610 across 14 hospitalsIL$610Wisconsin: median $2,106 across 32 hospitalsWI$2,106Michigan: median $814 across 16 hospitalsMI$814New York: median $1,894 across 22 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,270 across 13 hospitalsOR$1,270Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,130 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,130Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,214 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,214Pennsylvania: median $1,216 across 21 hospitalsPA$1,216New Jersey: median $4,627 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,742 across 25 hospitalsCA$8,742Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 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: 7 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 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: median $6,183 across 10 hospitalsSC$6,183Oklahoma: median $509 across 13 hospitalsOK$509Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,214 across 24 hospitalsTX$2,214Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,543. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$8,742+466%$937 – $8,742
South Carolina SC10$6,183+301%$4,601 – $6,183
New Jersey NJ31$4,627+200%$1,773 – $8,290
Texas TX24$2,214+43%$1,457 – $2,436
Wisconsin WI32$2,106+36%$1,543 – $2,732
New York NY22$1,894+23%$954 – $1,909
Minnesota MN15$1,719+11%$1,211 – $1,719
Oregon OR13$1,270−18%$814 – $1,504
Pennsylvania PA21$1,216−21%$199 – $2,597
Ohio OH12$1,214−21%$847 – $1,382
Iowa IA17$1,130−27%$1,001 – $1,130
Michigan MI16$814−47%$559 – $2,211
Illinois IL14$610−60%$338 – $1,130
Oklahoma OK13$509−67%$509 – $509
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $1,543.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care319$1,621$602 – $4,323
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access80$1,535$716 – $2,732
Ownership
For-profit46$2,000$814 – $4,640
Government59$1,166$551 – $2,319
Non-profit303$1,543$662 – $3,016
System affiliation
Part of a system329$1,719$680 – $4,436
Independent79$1,074$610 – $2,320

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,868
Median cash price$1,543
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

217 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,130 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,407; most fall between $509 and $2,967.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 217 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
$416$621$1,130$2,511$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($416 vs $8,742).

Of the 239 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 217 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

408 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 443 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted408
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code443

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 23, 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 Tenolysis Flexor Foot Single 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, “Release of scar tissue around one foot flexor tendon (CPT 28220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28220-release-of-scar-tissue-around-one-foot-flexor-tendon