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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur)

Nonsurgical treatment of a heel bone fracture

CPT 28400the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a broken heel bone without surgery and without repositioning the bone fragments, typically with immobilization.

Hospitals typically charge $422 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,449 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $438. Most fall between $245 and $747 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,449
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 1,449 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
$181$266$422$670$1,038

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($181 vs $1,038).

How the prices are spread

$128 – $163: 48 hospitals$128$163 – $207: 79 hospitals$207 – $264: 164 hospitals$207$264 – $335: 190 hospitals$335 – $426: 193 hospitals$335$426 – $542: 216 hospitals$542 – $690: 148 hospitals$542$690 – $877: 134 hospitals$877 – $1,116: 79 hospitals$877$1,116 – $1,419: 58 hospitals$1,116median $422price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,309 of 1,449 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$128$16348
$163$20779
$207$264164
$264$335190
$335$426193
$426$542216
$542$690148
$690$877134
$877$1,11679
$1,116$1,41958

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$422
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.67×

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 $422.

Alaska: median $474 across 12 hospitalsAK$474Maine: median $276 across 14 hospitalsME$276Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $192 across 12 hospitalsNH$192Washington: median $497 across 46 hospitalsWA$497Idaho: median $442 across 16 hospitalsID$442Montana: median $304 across 13 hospitalsMT$304North Dakota: median $470 across 13 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $474 across 44 hospitalsMN$474Illinois: median $445 across 53 hospitalsIL$445Wisconsin: median $622 across 58 hospitalsWI$622Michigan: median $339 across 56 hospitalsMI$339New York: median $505 across 71 hospitalsNY$505Massachusetts: median $813 across 38 hospitalsMA$813Oregon: median $472 across 37 hospitalsOR$472Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $625 across 10 hospitalsWY$625South Dakota: median $524 across 18 hospitalsSD$524Iowa: median $424 across 48 hospitalsIA$424Indiana: median $444 across 27 hospitalsIN$444Ohio: median $375 across 58 hospitalsOH$375Pennsylvania: median $377 across 73 hospitalsPA$377New Jersey: median $600 across 30 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $344 across 14 hospitalsCT$344Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $536 across 101 hospitalsCA$536Utah: median $413 across 29 hospitalsUT$413Colorado: median $486 across 29 hospitalsCO$486Nebraska: median $434 across 35 hospitalsNE$434Missouri: median $441 across 25 hospitalsMO$441Kentucky: median $283 across 17 hospitalsKY$283West Virginia: median $311 across 27 hospitalsWV$311Virginia: median $426 across 22 hospitalsVA$426Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $292 across 14 hospitalsAZ$292New Mexico: median $268 across 13 hospitalsNM$268Kansas: median $369 across 33 hospitalsKS$369Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $338 across 31 hospitalsNC$338South Carolina: median $516 across 18 hospitalsSC$516Oklahoma: median $230 across 30 hospitalsOK$230Louisiana: median $180 across 22 hospitalsLA$180Mississippi: median $275 across 15 hospitalsMS$275Alabama: median $440 across 14 hospitalsAL$440Georgia: median $901 across 40 hospitalsGA$901Hawaii: median $577 across 12 hospitalsHI$577Texas: median $280 across 80 hospitalsTX$280Florida: median $735 across 38 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $422. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA40$901+114%$203 – $1,350
Massachusetts MA38$813+93%$296 – $1,918
Florida FL38$735+74%$255 – $1,183
Wyoming WY10$625+48%$453 – $665
Wisconsin WI58$622+48%$404 – $1,332
New Jersey NJ30$600+42%$266 – $5,110
Hawaii HI12$577+37%$573 – $937
California CA101$536+27%$338 – $935
South Dakota SD18$524+24%$362 – $693
South Carolina SC18$516+22%$295 – $650
New York NY71$505+20%$284 – $851
Washington WA46$497+18%$403 – $706
Colorado CO29$486+15%$242 – $1,242
Minnesota MN44$474+12%$230 – $558
Alaska AK12$474+12%$294 – $1,079
Oregon OR37$472+12%$252 – $660
North Dakota ND13$470+12%$380 – $571
Illinois IL53$445+5%$229 – $763
Indiana IN27$444+5%$277 – $747
Idaho ID16$442+5%$200 – $670
Missouri MO25$441+5%$193 – $748
Alabama AL14$440+4%$220 – $935
Nebraska NE35$434+3%$257 – $673
Virginia VA22$426+1%$263 – $488
Iowa IA48$4240%$230 – $615
Utah UT29$413−2%$316 – $442
Pennsylvania PA73$377−11%$245 – $759
Ohio OH58$375−11%$259 – $717
Kansas KS33$369−13%$220 – $483
Connecticut CT14$344−18%$257 – $1,168
Michigan MI56$339−20%$193 – $536
North Carolina NC31$338−20%$141 – $352
West Virginia WV27$311−26%$240 – $492
Montana MT13$304−28%$115 – $717
Arizona AZ14$292−31%$292 – $371
Kentucky KY17$283−33%$216 – $450
Texas TX80$280−34%$191 – $499
Maine ME14$276−34%$194 – $541
Mississippi MS15$275−35%$98 – $335
New Mexico NM13$268−36%$194 – $446
Oklahoma OK30$230−45%$113 – $526
New Hampshire NH12$192−54%$146 – $395
Louisiana LA22$180−57%$127 – $410
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $422.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,007$412$242 – $756
Children’s37$627$292 – $1,091
Critical access405$444$249 – $660
Ownership
For-profit120$356$247 – $901
Government275$420$232 – $681
Non-profit1,054$425$245 – $747
System affiliation
Part of a system1,141$426$246 – $748
Independent308$400$232 – $704

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$670
Median cash price$422
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

1,045 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $446 and the average of the middle 60% is $459; most fall between $253 and $759.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,045 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
$199$277$446$706$1,085

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($199 vs $1,085).

Of the 1,128 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,045 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 49 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,449 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,573 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,449
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,573

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of lower extremity (other than hip or femur) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Closed Tx Calcaneal Fracture W/O Manipulation.

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, “Nonsurgical treatment of a heel bone fracture (CPT 28400) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28400-nonsurgical-treatment-of-a-heel-bone-fracture