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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Partial removal of a metatarsal head, one bone

CPT 28288the billing code this page is about

Shaving or partial removal of the rounded end of a long bone in the ball of the foot, including any bony bump on it; billed once for each bone treated.

Hospitals typically charge $2,100 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 752 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,450. Most fall between $843 and $4,894 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
752
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 752 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
$656$1,008$2,100$4,499$8,437

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($656 vs $8,437).

How the prices are spread

$459 – $641: 35 hospitals$459$641 – $895: 88 hospitals$895 – $1,251: 85 hospitals$895$1,251 – $1,749: 95 hospitals$1,749 – $2,444: 78 hospitals$1,749$2,444 – $3,416: 62 hospitals$3,416 – $4,773: 102 hospitals$3,416$4,773 – $6,671: 65 hospitals$6,671 – $9,323: 46 hospitals$6,671$9,323 – $13,028: 26 hospitals$9,323median $2,100price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (682 of 752 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$459$64135
$641$89588
$895$1,25185
$1,251$1,74995
$1,749$2,44478
$2,444$3,41662
$3,416$4,773102
$4,773$6,67165
$6,671$9,32346
$9,323$13,02826

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,100
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $2,100.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,000 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,000New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,310 across 19 hospitalsWA$1,310Idaho: median $2,790 across 16 hospitalsID$2,790Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,633 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,633Illinois: median $1,388 across 27 hospitalsIL$1,388Wisconsin: median $2,708 across 40 hospitalsWI$2,708Michigan: median $814 across 37 hospitalsMI$814New York: median $3,343 across 41 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,097 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,097Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $1,522 across 38 hospitalsIA$1,522Indiana: median $857 across 19 hospitalsIN$857Ohio: median $1,598 across 23 hospitalsOH$1,598Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 30 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,130 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,130Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,894 across 36 hospitalsCA$4,894Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,132 across 19 hospitalsCO$3,132Nebraska: median $1,497 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,497Missouri: median $983 across 14 hospitalsMO$983Kentucky: median $683 across 10 hospitalsKY$683West Virginia: median $927 across 18 hospitalsWV$927Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital 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 $938 across 15 hospitalsKS$938Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,041 across 10 hospitalsTN$1,041North Carolina: median $1,873 across 12 hospitalsNC$1,873South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $721 across 16 hospitalsOK$721Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,588 across 16 hospitalsGA$6,588Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,973 across 40 hospitalsTX$3,973Florida: median $8,540 across 11 hospitalsFL$8,540
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,100. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL11$8,540+307%$3,257 – $10,690
Georgia GA16$6,588+214%$3,265 – $8,400
California CA36$4,894+133%$1,269 – $4,894
New Jersey NJ33$4,130+97%$3,591 – $5,729
Texas TX40$3,973+89%$1,964 – $8,356
New York NY41$3,343+59%$739 – $3,884
Pennsylvania PA30$3,139+49%$152 – $5,486
Colorado CO19$3,132+49%$1,273 – $8,676
Idaho ID16$2,790+33%$1,232 – $6,877
Wisconsin WI40$2,708+29%$1,920 – $3,393
North Carolina NC12$1,873−11%$1,136 – $4,515
Minnesota MN37$1,633−22%$988 – $2,266
Ohio OH23$1,598−24%$857 – $10,549
Iowa IA38$1,522−28%$1,142 – $3,402
Nebraska NE15$1,497−29%$1,008 – $2,426
Illinois IL27$1,388−34%$600 – $2,148
Washington WA19$1,310−38%$985 – $3,977
Oregon OR14$1,097−48%$929 – $1,806
Tennessee TN10$1,041−50%$559 – $3,030
Vermont VT10$1,000−52%$786 – $2,516
Missouri MO14$983−53%$810 – $16,642
Kansas KS15$938−55%$686 – $2,511
West Virginia WV18$927−56%$459 – $1,425
Indiana IN19$857−59%$600 – $7,579
Michigan MI37$814−61%$698 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK16$721−66%$721 – $6,615
Kentucky KY10$683−68%$600 – $13,028
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,100.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care512$2,734$871 – $6,114
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access229$1,428$823 – $3,336
Ownership
For-profit91$3,794$1,294 – $8,372
Government144$1,636$920 – $4,536
Non-profit516$2,032$814 – $4,894
System affiliation
Part of a system574$2,266$938 – $5,297
Independent178$1,511$785 – $4,255

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,438
Median cash price$2,100
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

395 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,633 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,115; most fall between $721 and $4,894.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 395 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
$596$814$1,633$3,973$6,987

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($596 vs $6,987).

Of the 432 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 395 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

752 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 823 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted752
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code823

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 Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ostc Prtl Exostc/Condylc Metar Head.

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, “Partial removal of a metatarsal head, one bone (CPT 28288) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28288-partial-removal-of-a-metatarsal-head-one-bone