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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Release or lengthening of the abductor hallucis muscle

CPT 28240the billing code this page is about

Surgery to cut, lengthen, or release the muscle along the inner border of the foot that pulls the big toe away from the others.

Hospitals typically charge $1,981 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 459 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,236. Most fall between $746 and $4,551 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
459
States
47
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 459 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
$489$827$1,981$4,015$6,700

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($489 vs $6,700).

How the prices are spread

$370 – $509: 37 hospitals$370$509 – $699: 28 hospitals$699 – $960: 52 hospitals$699$960 – $1,319: 35 hospitals$1,319 – $1,812: 40 hospitals$1,319$1,812 – $2,490: 42 hospitals$2,490 – $3,421: 51 hospitals$2,490$3,421 – $4,700: 71 hospitals$4,700 – $6,457: 34 hospitals$4,700$6,457 – $8,870: 28 hospitals$6,457median $1,981price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (418 of 459 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$370$50937
$509$69928
$699$96052
$960$1,31935
$1,319$1,81240
$1,812$2,49042
$2,490$3,42151
$3,421$4,70071
$4,700$6,45734
$6,457$8,87028

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,981
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.59×

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 $1,981.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,588 across 16 hospitalsWA$4,588Idaho: median $2,903 across 10 hospitalsID$2,903Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,377 across 17 hospitalsMN$1,377Illinois: median $927 across 21 hospitalsIL$927Wisconsin: median $1,981 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,981Michigan: median $1,981 across 11 hospitalsMI$1,981New York: median $3,690 across 31 hospitalsNY$3,690Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,250 across 16 hospitalsOR$2,250Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,122 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,122Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,165 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,165Pennsylvania: median $551 across 20 hospitalsPA$551New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,509 across 53 hospitalsCA$2,509Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 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: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $489 across 14 hospitalsOK$489Louisiana: median $1,473 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,473Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 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 $3,154 across 29 hospitalsTX$3,154Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,981. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+134%$3,591 – $8,488
Washington WA16$4,588+132%$910 – $6,876
New York NY31$3,690+86%$851 – $3,840
Texas TX29$3,154+59%$1,707 – $3,969
Idaho ID10$2,903+47%$2,500 – $8,372
California CA53$2,509+27%$1,472 – $3,981
Oregon OR16$2,250+14%$803 – $8,870
Michigan MI11$1,9810%$484 – $4,499
Wisconsin WI27$1,9810%$1,484 – $2,297
Louisiana LA11$1,473−26%$1,129 – $3,261
Minnesota MN17$1,377−30%$1,049 – $1,623
Ohio OH14$1,165−41%$634 – $1,961
Iowa IA21$1,122−43%$889 – $1,122
Illinois IL21$927−53%$370 – $5,527
Pennsylvania PA20$551−72%$184 – $5,038
Oklahoma OK14$489−75%$489 – $6,615
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,981.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care346$2,500$762 – $4,601
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access96$1,473$686 – $3,981
Ownership
For-profit47$2,903$756 – $5,317
Government65$994$559 – $4,015
Non-profit346$1,981$793 – $4,454
System affiliation
Part of a system374$2,174$800 – $4,601
Independent85$1,052$574 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,650
Median cash price$1,981
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,472 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,867; most fall between $560 and $4,193.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 276 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
$443$767$1,472$3,154$6,342

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($443 vs $6,342).

Of the 287 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 276 gave a usable cash price; 8 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

459 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 478 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted459
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code478

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 Tenotomy Lengthening/Rls Abductor Hallucis Musc.

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 or lengthening of the abductor hallucis muscle (CPT 28240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28240-release-or-lengthening-of-the-abductor-hallucis-muscle