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

Treatment of a broken foot bone without realignment

CPT 28470the billing code this page is about

Non-surgical care of a fracture of a long bone in the forefoot (metatarsal) without moving the bone back into place; billed once for each bone treated.

Hospitals typically charge $389 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,860 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $410. Most fall between $232 and $679 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,860
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 1,860 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
$174$257$389$608$976

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($174 vs $976).

How the prices are spread

$124 – $157: 64 hospitals$124$157 – $200: 103 hospitals$200 – $253: 195 hospitals$200$253 – $321: 266 hospitals$321 – $408: 263 hospitals$321$408 – $518: 244 hospitals$518 – $657: 239 hospitals$518$657 – $834: 156 hospitals$834 – $1,058: 72 hospitals$834$1,058 – $1,343: 75 hospitals$1,058median $389price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,677 of 1,860 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$124$15764
$157$200103
$200$253195
$253$321266
$321$408263
$408$518244
$518$657239
$657$834156
$834$1,05872
$1,058$1,34375

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$389
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.55×

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 $389.

Alaska: median $616 across 13 hospitalsAK$616Maine: median $249 across 14 hospitalsME$249Vermont: median $455 across 11 hospitalsVT$455New Hampshire: median $176 across 15 hospitalsNH$176Washington: median $536 across 55 hospitalsWA$536Idaho: median $491 across 20 hospitalsID$491Montana: median $338 across 19 hospitalsMT$338North Dakota: median $446 across 19 hospitalsND$446Minnesota: median $446 across 58 hospitalsMN$446Illinois: median $499 across 76 hospitalsIL$499Wisconsin: median $550 across 65 hospitalsWI$550Michigan: median $313 across 58 hospitalsMI$313New York: median $390 across 82 hospitalsNY$390Massachusetts: median $613 across 39 hospitalsMA$613Oregon: median $414 across 44 hospitalsOR$414Nevada: median $316 across 13 hospitalsNV$316Wyoming: median $458 across 10 hospitalsWY$458South Dakota: median $503 across 28 hospitalsSD$503Iowa: median $373 across 68 hospitalsIA$373Indiana: median $305 across 41 hospitalsIN$305Ohio: median $364 across 68 hospitalsOH$364Pennsylvania: median $413 across 88 hospitalsPA$413New Jersey: median $322 across 44 hospitalsNJ$322Connecticut: median $381 across 16 hospitalsCT$381Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $602 across 113 hospitalsCA$602Utah: median $416 across 26 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $527 across 34 hospitalsCO$527Nebraska: median $416 across 53 hospitalsNE$416Missouri: median $317 across 44 hospitalsMO$317Kentucky: median $246 across 26 hospitalsKY$246West Virginia: median $240 across 29 hospitalsWV$240Virginia: median $291 across 38 hospitalsVA$291Maryland: 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 $303 across 20 hospitalsAZ$303New Mexico: median $330 across 18 hospitalsNM$330Kansas: median $349 across 53 hospitalsKS$349Arkansas: median $429 across 17 hospitalsAR$429Tennessee: median $67 across 20 hospitalsTN$67North Carolina: median $344 across 35 hospitalsNC$344South Carolina: median $536 across 23 hospitalsSC$536Oklahoma: median $207 across 39 hospitalsOK$207Louisiana: median $180 across 34 hospitalsLA$180Mississippi: median $168 across 22 hospitalsMS$168Alabama: median $294 across 18 hospitalsAL$294Georgia: median $627 across 49 hospitalsGA$627Hawaii: median $573 across 11 hospitalsHI$573Texas: median $339 across 112 hospitalsTX$339Florida: median $637 across 49 hospitalsFL$637
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $389. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL49$637+64%$281 – $896
Georgia GA49$627+61%$248 – $1,372
Alaska AK13$616+58%$275 – $1,069
Massachusetts MA39$613+57%$321 – $976
California CA113$602+55%$331 – $1,282
Hawaii HI11$573+47%$268 – $751
Wisconsin WI65$550+41%$251 – $1,051
South Carolina SC23$536+38%$324 – $606
Washington WA55$536+38%$350 – $730
Colorado CO34$527+35%$213 – $620
South Dakota SD28$503+29%$326 – $704
Illinois IL76$499+28%$235 – $830
Idaho ID20$491+26%$220 – $670
Wyoming WY10$458+18%$253 – $680
Vermont VT11$455+17%$252 – $549
North Dakota ND19$446+15%$246 – $596
Minnesota MN58$446+15%$218 – $622
Arkansas AR17$429+10%$222 – $501
Nebraska NE53$416+7%$307 – $587
Utah UT26$416+7%$363 – $442
Oregon OR44$414+6%$194 – $602
Pennsylvania PA88$413+6%$245 – $695
New York NY82$3900%$263 – $652
Connecticut CT16$381−2%$244 – $815
Iowa IA68$373−4%$210 – $608
Ohio OH68$364−7%$268 – $717
Kansas KS53$349−10%$234 – $691
North Carolina NC35$344−12%$209 – $362
Texas TX112$339−13%$232 – $656
Montana MT19$338−13%$185 – $603
New Mexico NM18$330−15%$267 – $563
New Jersey NJ44$322−17%$266 – $4,627
Missouri MO44$317−19%$203 – $430
Nevada NV13$316−19%$251 – $724
Michigan MI58$313−20%$174 – $425
Indiana IN41$305−22%$223 – $627
Arizona AZ20$303−22%$257 – $714
Alabama AL18$294−24%$199 – $615
Virginia VA38$291−25%$103 – $426
Maine ME14$249−36%$215 – $449
Kentucky KY26$246−37%$182 – $374
West Virginia WV29$240−38%$208 – $478
Oklahoma OK39$207−47%$174 – $401
Louisiana LA34$180−54%$127 – $299
New Hampshire NH15$176−55%$128 – $285
Mississippi MS22$168−57%$153 – $370
Tennessee TN20$67−83%$67 – $308
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $389.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,224$380$232 – $710
Children’s45$643$289 – $1,108
Critical access589$394$229 – $599
Ownership
For-profit152$387$231 – $880
Government386$373$215 – $615
Non-profit1,320$396$238 – $678
System affiliation
Part of a system1,458$394$237 – $692
Independent402$361$222 – $650

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$627
Median cash price$389
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

1,330 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $414 and the average of the middle 60% is $432; most fall between $248 and $706.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,330 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
$186$269$414$637$1,108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($186 vs $1,108).

Of the 1,434 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,330 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,860 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,008 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,860
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
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 — excluded71
Hospitals that filed this code2,008

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 PR Closed Rx Metatarsal Fx.

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, “Treatment of a broken foot bone without realignment (CPT 28470) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28470-treatment-of-a-broken-foot-bone-without-realignment