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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Cutting of the plantar fascia and arch muscle

CPT 28250the billing code this page is about

Open surgery that divides the thick band of tissue and muscle along the sole of the foot to release a tight arch or contracture.

Hospitals typically charge $2,441 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 404 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,868. Most fall between $906 and $6,653 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
404
States
45
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 404 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
$574$978$2,441$5,110$8,676

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($574 vs $8,676).

How the prices are spread

$466 – $662: 28 hospitals$466$662 – $941: 47 hospitals$941 – $1,339: 39 hospitals$941$1,339 – $1,903: 41 hospitals$1,903 – $2,707: 29 hospitals$1,903$2,707 – $3,849: 57 hospitals$3,849 – $5,473: 49 hospitals$3,849$5,473 – $7,783: 28 hospitals$7,783 – $11,068: 35 hospitals$7,783$11,068 – $15,739: 11 hospitals$11,068median $2,441price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (364 of 404 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$466$66228
$662$94147
$941$1,33939
$1,339$1,90341
$1,903$2,70729
$2,707$3,84957
$3,849$5,47349
$5,473$7,78328
$7,783$11,06835
$11,068$15,73911

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,441
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $2,441.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $1,828 across 16 hospitalsMN$1,828Illinois: median $1,075 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,075Wisconsin: median $2,059 across 10 hospitalsWI$2,059Michigan: median $926 across 26 hospitalsMI$926New York: median $3,840 across 22 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,446 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,446Indiana: median $760 across 12 hospitalsIN$760Ohio: median $1,658 across 11 hospitalsOH$1,658Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,969 across 35 hospitalsCA$7,969Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,528 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,528Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 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: 3 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $684 across 12 hospitalsOK$684Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,833 across 25 hospitalsTX$2,833Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,441. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$7,969+226%$4,003 – $7,969
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+77%$3,594 – $5,339
New York NY22$3,840+57%$3,129 – $3,884
Texas TX25$2,833+16%$1,707 – $3,217
Pennsylvania PA21$2,382−2%$270 – $5,208
Wisconsin WI10$2,059−16%$1,970 – $2,059
Minnesota MN16$1,828−25%$1,125 – $2,145
Ohio OH11$1,658−32%$955 – $3,553
Nebraska NE10$1,528−37%$956 – $1,528
Iowa IA16$1,446−41%$1,446 – $1,700
Illinois IL16$1,075−56%$540 – $3,038
Michigan MI26$926−62%$926 – $4,499
Indiana IN12$760−69%$540 – $5,596
Oklahoma OK12$684−72%$684 – $684
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,441.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care326$2,833$926 – $6,653
Children’s22$1,756$1,099 – $5,066
Critical access56$1,828$833 – $3,779
Ownership
For-profit46$4,601$917 – $10,637
Government56$1,670$862 – $3,840
Non-profit302$2,268$926 – $6,653
System affiliation
Part of a system326$2,833$926 – $6,987
Independent78$1,402$784 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,437
Median cash price$2,441
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

214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,595 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,026; most fall between $684 and $7,969.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 214 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
$540$784$1,595$6,462$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($540 vs $8,372).

Of the 231 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 214 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 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

404 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 447 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted404
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code447

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 Division Plantar Fascia & Muscle Spx.

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, “Cutting of the plantar fascia and arch muscle (CPT 28250) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28250-cutting-of-the-plantar-fascia-and-arch-muscle