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

Hand and lower forearm cast

CPT 29085the billing code this page is about

Application of a gauntlet-style cast covering the hand and the lower part of the forearm. Covers one cast application.

Hospitals typically charge $230 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,718 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $244. Most fall between $128 and $424 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,718
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 1,718 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
$84$145$230$374$583

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($84 vs $583).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 59 hospitals$58$76 – $98: 94 hospitals$98 – $128: 112 hospitals$98$128 – $167: 195 hospitals$167 – $218: 255 hospitals$167$218 – $285: 277 hospitals$285 – $371: 204 hospitals$285$371 – $484: 189 hospitals$484 – $631: 110 hospitals$484$631 – $823: 63 hospitals$631median $230price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,558 of 1,718 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$7659
$76$9894
$98$128112
$128$167195
$167$218255
$218$285277
$285$371204
$371$484189
$484$631110
$631$82363

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$230
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

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 $230.

Alaska: median $333 across 14 hospitalsAK$333Maine: median $158 across 18 hospitalsME$158Vermont: median $201 across 11 hospitalsVT$201New Hampshire: median $103 across 13 hospitalsNH$103Washington: median $261 across 45 hospitalsWA$261Idaho: median $264 across 19 hospitalsID$264Montana: median $169 across 24 hospitalsMT$169North Dakota: median $262 across 17 hospitalsND$262Minnesota: median $172 across 59 hospitalsMN$172Illinois: median $282 across 73 hospitalsIL$282Wisconsin: median $259 across 75 hospitalsWI$259Michigan: median $207 across 57 hospitalsMI$207New York: median $205 across 79 hospitalsNY$205Massachusetts: median $415 across 35 hospitalsMA$415Oregon: median $199 across 39 hospitalsOR$199Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $139 across 10 hospitalsWY$139South Dakota: median $257 across 15 hospitalsSD$257Iowa: median $178 across 53 hospitalsIA$178Indiana: median $177 across 37 hospitalsIN$177Ohio: median $230 across 77 hospitalsOH$230Pennsylvania: median $279 across 62 hospitalsPA$279New Jersey: median $429 across 46 hospitalsNJ$429Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $447 across 109 hospitalsCA$447Utah: median $334 across 28 hospitalsUT$334Colorado: median $235 across 38 hospitalsCO$235Nebraska: median $217 across 48 hospitalsNE$217Missouri: median $202 across 30 hospitalsMO$202Kentucky: median $133 across 22 hospitalsKY$133West Virginia: median $181 across 25 hospitalsWV$181Virginia: median $237 across 36 hospitalsVA$237Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $256 across 12 hospitalsAZ$256New Mexico: median $275 across 11 hospitalsNM$275Kansas: median $188 across 54 hospitalsKS$188Arkansas: median $93 across 10 hospitalsAR$93Tennessee: median $99 across 20 hospitalsTN$99North Carolina: median $183 across 35 hospitalsNC$183South Carolina: median $208 across 20 hospitalsSC$208Oklahoma: median $111 across 31 hospitalsOK$111Louisiana: median $123 across 27 hospitalsLA$123Mississippi: median $107 across 24 hospitalsMS$107Alabama: median $192 across 13 hospitalsAL$192Georgia: median $215 across 32 hospitalsGA$215Hawaii: median $377 across 11 hospitalsHI$377Texas: median $295 across 127 hospitalsTX$295Florida: median $497 across 48 hospitalsFL$497
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $230. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL48$497+116%$150 – $718
California CA109$447+94%$207 – $823
New Jersey NJ46$429+87%$175 – $4,350
Massachusetts MA35$415+80%$243 – $572
Hawaii HI11$377+64%$333 – $640
Utah UT28$334+45%$286 – $442
Alaska AK14$333+45%$227 – $548
Texas TX127$295+28%$124 – $376
Illinois IL73$282+22%$138 – $471
Pennsylvania PA62$279+21%$129 – $672
New Mexico NM11$275+20%$188 – $357
Idaho ID19$264+15%$128 – $442
North Dakota ND17$262+14%$162 – $299
Washington WA45$261+13%$176 – $374
Wisconsin WI75$259+13%$168 – $415
South Dakota SD15$257+12%$200 – $283
Arizona AZ12$256+11%$119 – $368
Virginia VA36$237+3%$186 – $424
Colorado CO38$235+2%$163 – $452
Ohio OH77$2300%$160 – $398
Nebraska NE48$217−6%$103 – $308
Georgia GA32$215−7%$89 – $416
South Carolina SC20$208−10%$145 – $284
Michigan MI57$207−10%$66 – $273
New York NY79$205−11%$139 – $395
Missouri MO30$202−12%$129 – $465
Vermont VT11$201−13%$87 – $253
Oregon OR39$199−14%$128 – $434
Alabama AL13$192−17%$115 – $265
Kansas KS54$188−18%$93 – $374
North Carolina NC35$183−20%$113 – $259
West Virginia WV25$181−21%$109 – $240
Iowa IA53$178−23%$103 – $230
Indiana IN37$177−23%$98 – $336
Minnesota MN59$172−25%$125 – $341
Montana MT24$169−27%$96 – $287
Maine ME18$158−31%$129 – $291
Wyoming WY10$139−40%$83 – $248
Kentucky KY22$133−42%$93 – $182
Louisiana LA27$123−46%$55 – $221
Oklahoma OK31$111−52%$111 – $289
Mississippi MS24$107−53%$95 – $150
New Hampshire NH13$103−55%$55 – $169
Tennessee TN20$99−57%$55 – $203
Arkansas AR10$93−59%$48 – $143
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $230.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,141$243$137 – $452
Children’s52$336$159 – $695
Critical access520$201$102 – $336
Ownership
For-profit139$267$131 – $535
Government354$199$118 – $328
Non-profit1,220$236$128 – $442
System affiliation
Part of a system1,357$240$131 – $442
Independent361$194$107 – $341

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$374
Median cash price$230
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

1,232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $255 and the average of the middle 60% is $270; most fall between $142 and $447.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,232 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$163$255$415$585

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($93 vs $585).

Of the 1,326 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,232 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,718 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,856 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,718
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
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 — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code1,856

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 Hand & Lower Forearm Gauntlet.

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, “Hand and lower forearm cast (CPT 29085) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29085-hand-and-lower-forearm-cast