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

Short arm cast, elbow to fingers

CPT 29075the billing code this page is about

Application of a cast running from below the elbow to the fingers. Covers one cast application.

Hospitals typically charge $276 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,285 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $288. Most fall between $139 and $521 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,285
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 2,285 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
$93$160$276$442$762

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($93 vs $762).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $89: 99 hospitals$67$89 – $117: 119 hospitals$117 – $153: 207 hospitals$117$153 – $202: 225 hospitals$202 – $266: 324 hospitals$202$266 – $351: 377 hospitals$351 – $462: 283 hospitals$351$462 – $608: 163 hospitals$608 – $801: 185 hospitals$608$801 – $1,054: 77 hospitals$801median $276price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,059 of 2,285 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$8999
$89$117119
$117$153207
$153$202225
$202$266324
$266$351377
$351$462283
$462$608163
$608$801185
$801$1,05477

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$276
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $276.

Alaska: median $426 across 15 hospitalsAK$426Maine: median $190 across 19 hospitalsME$190Vermont: median $406 across 11 hospitalsVT$406New Hampshire: median $105 across 15 hospitalsNH$105Washington: median $299 across 60 hospitalsWA$299Idaho: median $252 across 21 hospitalsID$252Montana: median $148 across 31 hospitalsMT$148North Dakota: median $273 across 25 hospitalsND$273Minnesota: median $230 across 86 hospitalsMN$230Illinois: median $272 across 101 hospitalsIL$272Wisconsin: median $269 across 86 hospitalsWI$269Michigan: median $245 across 72 hospitalsMI$245New York: median $314 across 91 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: median $395 across 43 hospitalsMA$395Oregon: median $215 across 47 hospitalsOR$215Nevada: median $304 across 14 hospitalsNV$304Wyoming: median $200 across 13 hospitalsWY$200South Dakota: median $234 across 23 hospitalsSD$234Iowa: median $209 across 69 hospitalsIA$209Indiana: median $277 across 56 hospitalsIN$277Ohio: median $280 across 104 hospitalsOH$280Pennsylvania: median $330 across 93 hospitalsPA$330New Jersey: median $600 across 50 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $499 across 134 hospitalsCA$499Utah: median $369 across 29 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $214 across 47 hospitalsCO$214Nebraska: median $214 across 69 hospitalsNE$214Missouri: median $243 across 48 hospitalsMO$243Kentucky: median $159 across 32 hospitalsKY$159West Virginia: median $269 across 35 hospitalsWV$269Virginia: median $300 across 49 hospitalsVA$300Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $387 across 26 hospitalsAZ$387New Mexico: median $285 across 15 hospitalsNM$285Kansas: median $170 across 71 hospitalsKS$170Arkansas: median $157 across 15 hospitalsAR$157Tennessee: median $130 across 32 hospitalsTN$130North Carolina: median $237 across 44 hospitalsNC$237South Carolina: median $478 across 38 hospitalsSC$478Oklahoma: median $198 across 42 hospitalsOK$198Louisiana: median $179 across 34 hospitalsLA$179Mississippi: median $152 across 40 hospitalsMS$152Alabama: median $196 across 23 hospitalsAL$196Georgia: median $495 across 45 hospitalsGA$495Hawaii: median $634 across 13 hospitalsHI$634Texas: median $307 across 144 hospitalsTX$307Florida: median $622 across 87 hospitalsFL$622
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $276. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI13$634+130%$460 – $712
Florida FL87$622+125%$250 – $1,054
New Jersey NJ50$600+117%$294 – $3,986
California CA134$499+81%$242 – $790
Georgia GA45$495+79%$110 – $1,220
South Carolina SC38$478+73%$352 – $626
Alaska AK15$426+54%$273 – $513
Vermont VT11$406+47%$79 – $619
Massachusetts MA43$395+43%$239 – $828
Arizona AZ26$387+40%$148 – $1,822
Utah UT29$369+33%$328 – $410
Pennsylvania PA93$330+20%$129 – $449
New York NY91$314+14%$148 – $639
Texas TX144$307+11%$129 – $409
Nevada NV14$304+10%$210 – $657
Virginia VA49$300+8%$130 – $363
Washington WA60$299+8%$137 – $554
New Mexico NM15$285+3%$170 – $657
Ohio OH104$280+1%$204 – $668
Indiana IN56$2770%$133 – $585
North Dakota ND25$273−1%$154 – $428
Illinois IL101$272−2%$171 – $515
West Virginia WV35$269−3%$129 – $386
Wisconsin WI86$269−3%$215 – $381
Idaho ID21$252−9%$179 – $611
Michigan MI72$245−11%$69 – $385
Missouri MO48$243−12%$153 – $403
North Carolina NC44$237−14%$148 – $394
South Dakota SD23$234−15%$211 – $308
Minnesota MN86$230−17%$131 – $329
Oregon OR47$215−22%$137 – $389
Nebraska NE69$214−23%$131 – $286
Colorado CO47$214−23%$158 – $387
Iowa IA69$209−24%$129 – $296
Wyoming WY13$200−28%$77 – $299
Oklahoma OK42$198−28%$110 – $509
Alabama AL23$196−29%$151 – $330
Maine ME19$190−31%$94 – $275
Louisiana LA34$179−35%$83 – $313
Kansas KS71$170−38%$113 – $455
Kentucky KY32$159−42%$85 – $340
Arkansas AR15$157−43%$86 – $212
Mississippi MS40$152−45%$82 – $204
Montana MT31$148−46%$90 – $272
Tennessee TN32$130−53%$79 – $420
New Hampshire NH15$105−62%$49 – $224
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $276.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,509$308$163 – $620
Children’s60$368$183 – $887
Critical access709$209$111 – $352
Ownership
For-profit188$354$178 – $785
Government473$217$123 – $394
Non-profit1,617$286$144 – $522
System affiliation
Part of a system1,810$295$147 – $554
Independent475$224$113 – $404

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$453
Median cash price$276
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

1,670 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $307 and the average of the middle 60% is $324; most fall between $160 and $611.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,670 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
$108$182$307$510$794

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($108 vs $794).

Of the 1,785 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,670 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 68 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,285 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,448 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,285
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded80
Hospitals that filed this code2,448

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 Traction, splints, and other wound care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Application Cast Elbow Finger Short Arm.

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, “Short arm cast, elbow to fingers (CPT 29075) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29075-short-arm-cast-elbow-to-fingers