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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Release of scar tissue around several foot flexor tendons

CPT 28222the billing code this page is about

Surgery to free more than one tendon that bends the foot or toes from surrounding scar tissue or adhesions.

Hospitals typically charge $1,857 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 291 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,383. Most fall between $695 and $4,627 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
291
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 291 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
$477$890$1,857$4,277$7,286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($477 vs $7,286).

How the prices are spread

$389 – $528: 20 hospitals$389$528 – $718: 25 hospitals$718 – $976: 21 hospitals$718$976 – $1,327: 31 hospitals$1,327 – $1,804: 25 hospitals$1,327$1,804 – $2,452: 17 hospitals$2,452 – $3,333: 27 hospitals$2,452$3,333 – $4,531: 48 hospitals$4,531 – $6,159: 20 hospitals$4,531$6,159 – $8,372: 29 hospitals$6,159median $1,857price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (263 of 291 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$389$52820
$528$71825
$718$97621
$976$1,32731
$1,327$1,80425
$1,804$2,45217
$2,452$3,33327
$3,333$4,53148
$4,531$6,15920
$6,159$8,37229

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,857
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.56×

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 $1,857.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $662 across 13 hospitalsIL$662Wisconsin: median $1,840 across 11 hospitalsWI$1,840Michigan: median $690 across 14 hospitalsMI$690New York: median $3,840 across 23 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,761 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,761Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,302 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,302Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,498 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,498Pennsylvania: median $252 across 13 hospitalsPA$252New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,286 across 24 hospitalsCA$7,286Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $617 across 12 hospitalsOK$617Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,038 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,038Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,857. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA24$7,286+292%$1,066 – $7,286
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+149%$3,591 – $8,289
New York NY23$3,840+107%$1,633 – $3,884
Texas TX21$3,038+64%$3,038 – $3,038
Wisconsin WI11$1,840−1%$1,840 – $1,840
Oregon OR11$1,761−5%$977 – $1,761
Ohio OH12$1,498−19%$969 – $1,677
Iowa IA16$1,302−30%$1,302 – $1,479
Michigan MI14$690−63%$468 – $4,499
Illinois IL13$662−64%$390 – $1,302
Oklahoma OK12$617−67%$617 – $617
Pennsylvania PA13$252−86%$231 – $3,804
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $1,857.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care246$2,552$695 – $4,721
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$1,761$758 – $4,308
Ownership
For-profit38$2,511$617 – $5,303
Government40$1,599$690 – $3,840
Non-profit213$1,840$758 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system231$3,038$826 – $5,171
Independent60$1,053$662 – $2,849

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,869
Median cash price$1,857
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

150 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,302 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,709; most fall between $617 and $4,720.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 150 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
$477$683$1,302$3,553$7,286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($477 vs $7,286).

Of the 165 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 150 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

291 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 326 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted291
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code326

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 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 PR Release Flex Foot Tendon,Multiple.

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 several foot flexor tendons (CPT 28222) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28222-release-of-scar-tissue-around-several-foot-flexor-tendons