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Procedure price report · Traction, splints, and other wound care

Application of a body cast for spinal curvature

CPT 29010the billing code this page is about

Placement of a molded body jacket cast covering the trunk only, used to hold the spine in a corrected position.

Hospitals typically charge $490 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 308 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $498. Most fall between $284 and $773 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
308
States
43
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 308 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
$201$294$490$740$1,920

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($201 vs $1,920).

How the prices are spread

$166 – $233: 19 hospitals$166$233 – $327: 63 hospitals$327 – $458: 49 hospitals$327$458 – $642: 63 hospitals$642 – $899: 57 hospitals$642$899 – $1,261: 7 hospitals$1,261 – $1,767: 3 hospitals$1,261$1,767 – $2,476: 5 hospitals$2,476 – $3,471: 3 hospitals$2,476$3,471 – $4,864: 11 hospitals$3,471median $490price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (280 of 308 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$166$23319
$233$32763
$327$45849
$458$64263
$642$89957
$899$1,2617
$1,261$1,7673
$1,767$2,4765
$2,476$3,4713
$3,471$4,86411

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$490
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.71×

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 $490.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $302 across 11 hospitalsIL$302Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $259 across 12 hospitalsMI$259New York: median $314 across 21 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $650 across 13 hospitalsIA$650Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $427 across 11 hospitalsOH$427Pennsylvania: median $123 across 18 hospitalsPA$123New Jersey: median $358 across 32 hospitalsNJ$358Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $773 across 41 hospitalsCA$773Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $367 across 12 hospitalsVA$367Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $557 across 13 hospitalsNC$557South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $263 across 12 hospitalsOK$263Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $517 across 20 hospitalsTX$517Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $490. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA41$773+58%$562 – $773
Iowa IA13$650+33%$650 – $650
North Carolina NC13$557+14%$265 – $557
Texas TX20$517+5%$446 – $527
Ohio OH11$427−13%$356 – $728
Virginia VA12$367−25%$367 – $480
New Jersey NJ32$358−27%$294 – $5,110
New York NY21$314−36%$314 – $349
Illinois IL11$302−38%$198 – $538
Oklahoma OK12$263−46%$263 – $490
Michigan MI12$259−47%$252 – $385
Pennsylvania PA18$123−75%$100 – $500
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $490.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care268$500$286 – $773
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$506$252 – $787
Ownership
For-profit26$356$198 – $656
Government47$446$289 – $723
Non-profit235$517$290 – $773
System affiliation
Part of a system262$517$285 – $773
Independent46$404$284 – $740

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$813
Median cash price$490
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $529 and the average of the middle 60% is $522; most fall between $289 and $751.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 188 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
$246$342$529$716$773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($246 vs $773).

Of the 199 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 188 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

308 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 326 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted308
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code326

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Traction, splints, and other wound care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Application Risser Jacket Localizer Body Only.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Application of a body cast for spinal curvature (CPT 29010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29010-application-of-a-body-cast-for-spinal-curvature