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Procedure price report · Bunionectomy or repair of toe deformities

Bunion surgery with removal of part of the toe bone

CPT 28292the billing code this page is about

Correction of a big toe bunion in which part of the toe bone and the small sesamoid bone are removed to realign the toe.

Hospitals typically charge $2,766 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 821 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,088. Most fall between $1,184 and $6,354 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
821
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 821 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
$809$1,273$2,766$5,486$10,374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($809 vs $10,374).

How the prices are spread

$609 – $841: 58 hospitals$609$841 – $1,161: 61 hospitals$1,161 – $1,603: 114 hospitals$1,161$1,603 – $2,213: 87 hospitals$2,213 – $3,055: 65 hospitals$2,213$3,055 – $4,217: 121 hospitals$4,217 – $5,823: 88 hospitals$4,217$5,823 – $8,039: 57 hospitals$8,039 – $11,099: 51 hospitals$8,039$11,099 – $15,323: 37 hospitals$11,099median $2,766price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (739 of 821 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$609$84158
$841$1,16161
$1,161$1,603114
$1,603$2,21387
$2,213$3,05565
$3,055$4,217121
$4,217$5,82388
$5,823$8,03957
$8,039$11,09951
$11,099$15,32337

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,766
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.83×

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 $2,766.

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: 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 $1,442 across 17 hospitalsWA$1,442Idaho: median $5,255 across 15 hospitalsID$5,255Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,981 across 34 hospitalsMN$1,981Illinois: median $1,289 across 28 hospitalsIL$1,289Wisconsin: median $3,524 across 40 hospitalsWI$3,524Michigan: median $1,261 across 35 hospitalsMI$1,261New York: median $3,840 across 53 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,737 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,737Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $1,814 across 44 hospitalsIA$1,814Indiana: median $1,502 across 20 hospitalsIN$1,502Ohio: median $2,205 across 24 hospitalsOH$2,205Pennsylvania: median $3,345 across 30 hospitalsPA$3,345New Jersey: median $4,350 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 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 $5,006 across 57 hospitalsCA$5,006Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,188 across 16 hospitalsCO$3,188Nebraska: median $1,794 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,794Missouri: median $2,414 across 22 hospitalsMO$2,414Kentucky: median $815 across 10 hospitalsKY$815West Virginia: median $2,053 across 17 hospitalsWV$2,053Virginia: median $1,857 across 12 hospitalsVA$1,857Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,623 across 10 hospitalsAZ$3,623New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,299 across 18 hospitalsKS$1,299Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,369 across 11 hospitalsTN$1,369North Carolina: median $2,675 across 12 hospitalsNC$2,675South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $809 across 16 hospitalsOK$809Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,400 across 13 hospitalsAL$3,400Georgia: median $5,810 across 12 hospitalsGA$5,810Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,131 across 54 hospitalsTX$4,131Florida: median $12,336 across 13 hospitalsFL$12,336
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,766. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL13$12,336+346%$3,257 – $19,020
Georgia GA12$5,810+110%$3,679 – $6,000
Idaho ID15$5,255+90%$1,867 – $8,372
California CA57$5,006+81%$1,472 – $9,755
New Jersey NJ34$4,350+57%$3,591 – $9,533
Texas TX54$4,131+49%$2,794 – $6,354
New York NY53$3,840+39%$1,197 – $4,595
Arizona AZ10$3,623+31%$505 – $20,465
Wisconsin WI40$3,524+27%$2,109 – $4,878
Alabama AL13$3,400+23%$867 – $8,123
Pennsylvania PA30$3,345+21%$179 – $5,873
Colorado CO16$3,188+15%$1,310 – $8,676
North Carolina NC12$2,675−3%$1,264 – $5,889
Missouri MO22$2,414−13%$1,099 – $8,444
Ohio OH24$2,205−20%$1,263 – $15,692
West Virginia WV17$2,053−26%$511 – $4,986
Minnesota MN34$1,981−28%$1,185 – $3,326
Virginia VA12$1,857−33%$325 – $12,919
Iowa IA44$1,814−34%$1,155 – $2,360
Nebraska NE17$1,794−35%$1,368 – $3,024
Oregon OR19$1,737−37%$1,273 – $2,324
Indiana IN20$1,502−46%$815 – $3,444
Washington WA17$1,442−48%$1,210 – $2,154
Tennessee TN11$1,369−51%$735 – $4,786
Kansas KS18$1,299−53%$804 – $3,471
Illinois IL28$1,289−53%$815 – $3,710
Michigan MI35$1,261−54%$1,004 – $3,524
Kentucky KY10$815−71%$723 – $4,218
Oklahoma OK16$809−71%$809 – $6,615
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not 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
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,766.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care574$3,591$1,261 – $8,676
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access236$1,772$1,001 – $3,524
Ownership
For-profit104$4,786$1,902 – $12,418
Government159$2,000$1,139 – $4,287
Non-profit558$2,675$1,140 – $6,354
System affiliation
Part of a system624$3,326$1,212 – $6,612
Independent197$2,091$1,061 – $4,890

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,990
Median cash price$2,766
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

397 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,814 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,346; most fall between $875 and $5,551.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 397 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
$749$1,077$1,814$4,720$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($749 vs $8,372).

Of the 447 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 397 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

821 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 903 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted821
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code903

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 Bunionectomy or repair of toe deformities family.

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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, “Bunion surgery with removal of part of the toe bone (CPT 28292) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28292-bunion-surgery-with-removal-of-part-of-the-toe-bone