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Procedure price report · Bunionectomy or repair of toe deformities

Bunion surgery with cut near the end of the foot bone

CPT 28296the billing code this page is about

Correction of a big toe bunion by cutting and repositioning the long foot bone near the joint end, with fixation as needed.

Hospitals typically charge $3,326 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 944 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,425. Most fall between $1,324 and $7,049 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
944
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 944 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
$925$1,530$3,326$5,940$11,862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($925 vs $11,862).

How the prices are spread

$714 – $987: 74 hospitals$714$987 – $1,366: 76 hospitals$1,366 – $1,889: 109 hospitals$1,366$1,889 – $2,612: 107 hospitals$2,612 – $3,613: 91 hospitals$2,612$3,613 – $4,997: 161 hospitals$4,997 – $6,911: 83 hospitals$4,997$6,911 – $9,558: 56 hospitals$9,558 – $13,219: 56 hospitals$9,558$13,219 – $18,283: 37 hospitals$13,219median $3,326price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (850 of 944 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$714$98774
$987$1,36676
$1,366$1,889109
$1,889$2,612107
$2,612$3,61391
$3,613$4,997161
$4,997$6,91183
$6,911$9,55856
$9,558$13,21956
$13,219$18,28337

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,326
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $3,326.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,336 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,336New Hampshire: median $883 across 10 hospitalsNH$883Washington: median $1,970 across 28 hospitalsWA$1,970Idaho: median $4,551 across 17 hospitalsID$4,551Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,894 across 40 hospitalsMN$1,894Illinois: median $1,592 across 32 hospitalsIL$1,592Wisconsin: median $3,747 across 41 hospitalsWI$3,747Michigan: median $1,951 across 40 hospitalsMI$1,951New York: median $3,840 across 58 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $6,978 across 11 hospitalsMA$6,978Oregon: median $2,963 across 31 hospitalsOR$2,963Nevada: 9 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 $1,976 across 42 hospitalsIA$1,976Indiana: median $2,483 across 25 hospitalsIN$2,483Ohio: median $9,481 across 33 hospitalsOH$9,481Pennsylvania: median $3,218 across 34 hospitalsPA$3,218New Jersey: median $4,130 across 35 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 $3,658 across 76 hospitalsCA$3,658Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,184 across 16 hospitalsCO$3,184Nebraska: median $2,304 across 18 hospitalsNE$2,304Missouri: median $1,394 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,394Kentucky: median $933 across 10 hospitalsKY$933West Virginia: median $1,695 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,695Virginia: median $4,106 across 14 hospitalsVA$4,106Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,660 across 12 hospitalsAZ$2,660New Mexico: median $3,843 across 10 hospitalsNM$3,843Kansas: median $2,636 across 18 hospitalsKS$2,636Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,643 across 13 hospitalsTN$3,643North Carolina: median $3,600 across 14 hospitalsNC$3,600South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $855 across 16 hospitalsOK$855Louisiana: median $5,374 across 11 hospitalsLA$5,374Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,920 across 12 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $6,653 across 16 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,193 across 50 hospitalsTX$4,193Florida: median $10,745 across 12 hospitalsFL$10,745
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,326. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL12$10,745+223%$9,454 – $24,675
Ohio OH33$9,481+185%$1,691 – $25,597
Massachusetts MA11$6,978+110%$2,728 – $21,191
Georgia GA16$6,653+100%$3,679 – $7,155
Louisiana LA11$5,374+62%$3,415 – $8,216
Idaho ID17$4,551+37%$1,791 – $8,372
Texas TX50$4,193+26%$2,653 – $8,292
New Jersey NJ35$4,130+24%$3,591 – $5,419
Virginia VA14$4,106+23%$1,857 – $21,270
New Mexico NM10$3,843+16%$1,263 – $11,164
New York NY58$3,840+15%$1,480 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI41$3,747+13%$2,500 – $4,235
California CA76$3,658+10%$1,472 – $11,094
Tennessee TN13$3,643+10%$673 – $8,179
North Carolina NC14$3,600+8%$1,667 – $5,688
Pennsylvania PA34$3,218−3%$351 – $6,114
Colorado CO16$3,184−4%$1,653 – $8,676
Oregon OR31$2,963−11%$1,056 – $7,911
Alabama AL12$2,920−12%$1,075 – $10,184
Arizona AZ12$2,660−20%$868 – $20,055
Kansas KS18$2,636−21%$1,073 – $4,462
Indiana IN25$2,483−25%$933 – $11,739
Nebraska NE18$2,304−31%$1,951 – $3,844
Iowa IA42$1,976−41%$1,344 – $2,270
Washington WA28$1,970−41%$1,473 – $6,876
Michigan MI40$1,951−41%$1,291 – $4,499
Minnesota MN40$1,894−43%$1,250 – $4,236
West Virginia WV18$1,695−49%$540 – $5,323
Illinois IL32$1,592−52%$933 – $4,554
Missouri MO19$1,394−58%$994 – $4,970
Vermont VT10$1,336−60%$563 – $2,765
Kentucky KY10$933−72%$769 – $1,327
New Hampshire NH10$883−73%$520 – $1,363
Oklahoma OK16$855−74%$855 – $6,699
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not 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
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $3,326.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care655$3,840$1,480 – $9,454
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access275$2,153$1,161 – $4,265
Ownership
For-profit116$4,740$2,153 – $13,587
Government171$1,986$1,172 – $4,792
Non-profit657$3,420$1,336 – $6,940
System affiliation
Part of a system720$3,658$1,457 – $7,911
Independent224$2,311$1,066 – $5,398

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,153
Median cash price$3,326
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

467 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,270 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,733; most fall between $984 and $6,040.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 467 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
$833$1,210$2,270$5,177$8,676

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($833 vs $8,676).

Of the 516 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 467 gave a usable cash price; 20 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

944 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,038 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted944
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,038

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 cut near the end of the foot bone (CPT 28296) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28296-bunion-surgery-with-cut-near-the-end-of-the-foot-bone