HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Open cutting of a foot or toe straightening tendon

CPT 28234the billing code this page is about

Surgical division of an extensor tendon of the foot or toe through an incision to release tightness; billed once for each tendon cut.

Hospitals typically charge $1,540 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 768 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,623. Most fall between $588 and $3,583 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
768
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 768 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
$424$664$1,540$2,931$5,617

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($424 vs $5,617).

How the prices are spread

$315 – $438: 54 hospitals$315$438 – $608: 68 hospitals$608 – $845: 91 hospitals$608$845 – $1,173: 74 hospitals$1,173 – $1,630: 76 hospitals$1,173$1,630 – $2,265: 128 hospitals$2,265 – $3,147: 72 hospitals$2,265$3,147 – $4,372: 38 hospitals$4,372 – $6,074: 74 hospitals$4,372$6,074 – $8,439: 17 hospitals$6,074median $1,540price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (692 of 768 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$315$43854
$438$60868
$608$84591
$845$1,17374
$1,173$1,63076
$1,630$2,265128
$2,265$3,14772
$3,147$4,37238
$4,372$6,07474
$6,074$8,43917

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,540
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 $1,540.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,011 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,011Idaho: median $2,472 across 15 hospitalsID$2,472Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,009 across 35 hospitalsMN$1,009Illinois: median $487 across 22 hospitalsIL$487Wisconsin: median $1,650 across 39 hospitalsWI$1,650Michigan: median $547 across 35 hospitalsMI$547New York: median $1,894 across 43 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,516 across 10 hospitalsMA$2,516Oregon: median $747 across 20 hospitalsOR$747Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,022 across 29 hospitalsIA$1,022Indiana: median $481 across 27 hospitalsIN$481Ohio: median $1,747 across 32 hospitalsOH$1,747Pennsylvania: median $1,904 across 40 hospitalsPA$1,904New Jersey: median $4,330 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,617 across 39 hospitalsCA$5,617Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,593 across 28 hospitalsCO$2,593Nebraska: median $1,082 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,082Missouri: median $1,602 across 13 hospitalsMO$1,602Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,501 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,501Virginia: median $1,998 across 16 hospitalsVA$1,998Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $444 across 10 hospitalsKS$444Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,010 across 11 hospitalsTN$2,010North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $447 across 15 hospitalsOK$447Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,810 across 11 hospitalsGA$5,810Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,121 across 36 hospitalsTX$2,121Florida: median $2,908 across 18 hospitalsFL$2,908
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,540. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$5,810+277%$2,812 – $5,810
California CA39$5,617+265%$937 – $5,617
New Jersey NJ35$4,330+181%$1,771 – $5,339
Florida FL18$2,908+89%$920 – $9,693
Colorado CO28$2,593+68%$964 – $3,583
Massachusetts MA10$2,516+63%$1,366 – $4,134
Idaho ID15$2,472+61%$723 – $4,436
Texas TX36$2,121+38%$1,634 – $4,929
Tennessee TN11$2,010+31%$378 – $4,509
Virginia VA16$1,998+30%$757 – $1,998
Pennsylvania PA40$1,904+24%$107 – $4,687
New York NY43$1,894+23%$759 – $3,037
Ohio OH32$1,747+13%$696 – $3,131
Wisconsin WI39$1,650+7%$1,313 – $1,849
Missouri MO13$1,602+4%$548 – $2,449
West Virginia WV15$1,501−3%$593 – $1,540
Nebraska NE13$1,082−30%$664 – $1,825
Iowa IA29$1,022−34%$813 – $1,784
Washington WA22$1,011−34%$752 – $1,526
Minnesota MN35$1,009−34%$526 – $1,330
Oregon OR20$747−52%$578 – $1,920
Michigan MI35$547−64%$425 – $1,849
Illinois IL22$487−68%$372 – $900
Indiana IN27$481−69%$372 – $840
Oklahoma OK15$447−71%$447 – $3,263
Kansas KS10$444−71%$322 – $795
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,540.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care548$1,849$637 – $4,560
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access206$880$534 – $1,920
Ownership
For-profit93$2,472$768 – $8,045
Government126$1,000$595 – $2,231
Non-profit548$1,513$578 – $3,261
System affiliation
Part of a system614$1,771$616 – $4,330
Independent154$960$537 – $2,080

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,095
Median cash price$1,540
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

443 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,330 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,549; most fall between $526 and $3,198.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 443 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
$372$636$1,330$2,931$5,218

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($372 vs $5,218).

Of the 483 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 443 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

768 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 846 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted768
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code846

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 Incision Exten Foot/Toe 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Open cutting of a foot or toe straightening tendon (CPT 28234) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28234-open-cutting-of-a-foot-or-toe-straightening-tendon