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

Application of a body cast from shoulders to hips

CPT 29035the billing code this page is about

Placement of a cast covering the trunk from the shoulders down to the hips to immobilize the spine or torso.

Hospitals typically charge $430 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 325 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $462. Most fall between $267 and $743 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
325
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 325 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
$204$305$430$702$1,322

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($204 vs $1,322).

How the prices are spread

$142 – $202: 16 hospitals$142$202 – $286: 39 hospitals$286 – $405: 87 hospitals$286$405 – $573: 61 hospitals$573 – $812: 45 hospitals$573$812 – $1,150: 11 hospitals$1,150 – $1,628: 26 hospitals$1,150$1,628 – $2,306: 1 hospitals$2,306 – $3,267: 3 hospitals$2,306$3,267 – $4,627: 4 hospitals$3,267median $430price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (293 of 325 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$142$20216
$202$28639
$286$40587
$405$57361
$573$81245
$812$1,15011
$1,150$1,62826
$1,628$2,3061
$2,306$3,2673
$3,267$4,6274

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$430
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.51×

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 $430.

Alaska: 5 hospitals 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: median $510 across 12 hospitalsWA$510Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $257 across 11 hospitalsIL$257Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $314 across 21 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $596 across 13 hospitalsOR$596Nevada: 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 $608 across 14 hospitalsIA$608Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $106 across 16 hospitalsPA$106New Jersey: median $793 across 29 hospitalsNJ$793Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $644 across 62 hospitalsCA$644Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $367 across 10 hospitalsVA$367Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $236 across 12 hospitalsOK$236Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $391 across 29 hospitalsTX$391Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $430. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$793+84%$294 – $5,339
California CA62$644+50%$486 – $1,322
Iowa IA14$608+41%$608 – $608
Oregon OR13$596+38%$500 – $715
Washington WA12$510+18%$420 – $568
Texas TX29$391−9%$208 – $391
Virginia VA10$367−15%$343 – $367
New York NY21$314−27%$314 – $349
Illinois IL11$257−40%$184 – $515
Oklahoma OK12$236−45%$236 – $236
Pennsylvania PA16$106−75%$90 – $330
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not 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
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $430.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care277$393$259 – $748
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$471$321 – $706
Ownership
For-profit25$391$184 – $807
Government40$314$247 – $563
Non-profit260$468$290 – $743
System affiliation
Part of a system273$464$294 – $836
Independent52$345$243 – $644

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$760
Median cash price$430
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

207 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $486 and the average of the middle 60% is $478; most fall between $272 and $715.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 207 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
$209$330$486$625$1,322

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($209 vs $1,322).

Of the 218 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 207 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

325 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 349 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted325
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code349

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 Body Cast Shoulder Hips.

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, “Application of a body cast from shoulders to hips (CPT 29035) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29035-application-of-a-body-cast-from-shoulders-to-hips