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

Open surgery for a broken foot bone

CPT 28485the billing code this page is about

Surgical incision to realign a fracture of a forefoot bone (metatarsal), with or without screws, pins, or plates to hold it; billed once for each bone treated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,661 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 991 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,683. Most fall between $1,097 and $11,471 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
991
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 991 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
$824$1,238$3,661$9,506$17,903

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($824 vs $17,903).

How the prices are spread

$587 – $854: 60 hospitals$587$854 – $1,241: 140 hospitals$1,241 – $1,804: 109 hospitals$1,241$1,804 – $2,623: 64 hospitals$2,623 – $3,813: 85 hospitals$2,623$3,813 – $5,543: 57 hospitals$5,543 – $8,058: 106 hospitals$5,543$8,058 – $11,713: 127 hospitals$11,713 – $17,027: 91 hospitals$11,713$17,027 – $24,753: 55 hospitals$17,027median $3,661price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (894 of 991 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$587$85460
$854$1,241140
$1,241$1,804109
$1,804$2,62364
$2,623$3,81385
$3,813$5,54357
$5,543$8,058106
$8,058$11,713127
$11,713$17,02791
$17,027$24,75355

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,661
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.49×

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 $3,661.

Alaska: median $3,680 across 10 hospitalsAK$3,680Maine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,038 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,038New Hampshire: median $564 across 10 hospitalsNH$564Washington: median $2,553 across 38 hospitalsWA$2,553Idaho: median $7,803 across 17 hospitalsID$7,803Montana: median $1,169 across 12 hospitalsMT$1,169North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,638 across 45 hospitalsMN$1,638Illinois: median $1,487 across 32 hospitalsIL$1,487Wisconsin: median $3,010 across 39 hospitalsWI$3,010Michigan: median $1,029 across 42 hospitalsMI$1,029New York: median $8,454 across 56 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,886 across 34 hospitalsOR$1,886Nevada: median $2,681 across 10 hospitalsNV$2,681Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,378 across 48 hospitalsIA$1,378Indiana: median $1,688 across 30 hospitalsIN$1,688Ohio: median $15,977 across 37 hospitalsOH$15,977Pennsylvania: median $8,376 across 27 hospitalsPA$8,376New Jersey: median $7,907 across 34 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: 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 $7,509 across 79 hospitalsCA$7,509Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,691 across 18 hospitalsCO$1,691Nebraska: median $1,399 across 18 hospitalsNE$1,399Missouri: median $5,377 across 22 hospitalsMO$5,377Kentucky: median $839 across 12 hospitalsKY$839West Virginia: median $5,824 across 21 hospitalsWV$5,824Virginia: median $4,116 across 14 hospitalsVA$4,116Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $7,090 across 15 hospitalsAZ$7,090New Mexico: median $8,538 across 10 hospitalsNM$8,538Kansas: median $2,333 across 20 hospitalsKS$2,333Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,368 across 16 hospitalsTN$3,368North Carolina: median $2,515 across 14 hospitalsNC$2,515South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,179 across 16 hospitalsOK$1,179Louisiana: median $6,019 across 14 hospitalsLA$6,019Mississippi: median $5,446 across 11 hospitalsMS$5,446Alabama: median $5,377 across 15 hospitalsAL$5,377Georgia: median $8,241 across 14 hospitalsGA$8,241Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,748 across 50 hospitalsTX$5,748Florida: median $11,386 across 17 hospitalsFL$11,386
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,661. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH37$15,977+336%$1,041 – $24,753
Florida FL17$11,386+211%$1,934 – $17,903
New Mexico NM10$8,538+133%$997 – $16,995
New York NY56$8,454+131%$1,077 – $13,784
Pennsylvania PA27$8,376+129%$5,050 – $14,613
Georgia GA14$8,241+125%$8,070 – $23,211
New Jersey NJ34$7,907+116%$5,110 – $9,532
Idaho ID17$7,803+113%$1,156 – $12,106
California CA79$7,509+105%$3,255 – $13,759
Arizona AZ15$7,090+94%$876 – $17,087
Louisiana LA14$6,019+64%$3,371 – $14,531
West Virginia WV21$5,824+59%$609 – $8,458
Texas TX50$5,748+57%$4,485 – $11,471
Mississippi MS11$5,446+49%$1,104 – $9,285
Alabama AL15$5,377+47%$1,557 – $7,600
Missouri MO22$5,377+47%$800 – $18,385
Virginia VA14$4,116+12%$373 – $37,699
Alaska AK10$3,680+1%$2,650 – $12,899
Tennessee TN16$3,368−8%$505 – $6,954
Wisconsin WI39$3,010−18%$2,176 – $7,190
Nevada NV10$2,681−27%$1,187 – $7,892
Washington WA38$2,553−30%$1,107 – $15,281
North Carolina NC14$2,515−31%$1,019 – $9,157
Kansas KS20$2,333−36%$869 – $6,836
Oregon OR34$1,886−48%$1,045 – $17,580
Colorado CO18$1,691−54%$1,135 – $19,279
Indiana IN30$1,688−54%$614 – $12,483
Minnesota MN45$1,638−55%$1,140 – $2,587
Illinois IL32$1,487−59%$590 – $7,656
Nebraska NE18$1,399−62%$940 – $2,011
Iowa IA48$1,378−62%$1,088 – $2,847
Oklahoma OK16$1,179−68%$1,179 – $13,267
Montana MT12$1,169−68%$826 – $2,536
Vermont VT10$1,038−72%$722 – $2,353
Michigan MI42$1,029−72%$927 – $9,978
Kentucky KY12$839−77%$546 – $7,101
New Hampshire NH10$564−85%$469 – $1,173
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $3,661.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care694$6,322$1,290 – $13,784
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access281$1,468$943 – $4,322
Ownership
For-profit125$8,199$1,493 – $16,995
Government180$1,557$998 – $7,606
Non-profit685$3,679$1,140 – $12,106
System affiliation
Part of a system755$4,559$1,179 – $13,078
Independent236$1,778$998 – $7,861

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,011
Median cash price$3,661
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

473 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,353 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,280; most fall between $975 and $9,317.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 473 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
$694$1,055$2,353$8,022$13,759

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($694 vs $13,759).

Of the 532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 473 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

991 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,093 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted991
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,093

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 Open Treatment Metatarsal Fracture Each.

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, “Open surgery for a broken foot bone (CPT 28485) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28485-open-surgery-for-a-broken-foot-bone