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

Finger cast application

CPT 29086the billing code this page is about

Application of a small cast to a single finger or thumb to hold it still. Covers one cast application.

Hospitals typically charge $197 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,031 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $214. Most fall between $100 and $407 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,031
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 1,031 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
$69$120$197$356$615

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($69 vs $615).

How the prices are spread

$45 – $60: 34 hospitals$45$60 – $80: 52 hospitals$80 – $107: 87 hospitals$80$107 – $143: 87 hospitals$143 – $192: 180 hospitals$143$192 – $257: 177 hospitals$257 – $344: 101 hospitals$257$344 – $460: 99 hospitals$460 – $616: 61 hospitals$460$616 – $825: 51 hospitals$616median $197price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (929 of 1,031 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$45$6034
$60$8052
$80$10787
$107$14387
$143$192180
$192$257177
$257$344101
$344$46099
$460$61661
$616$82551

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$197
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $197.

Alaska: median $282 across 10 hospitalsAK$282Maine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $255 across 24 hospitalsWA$255Idaho: median $442 across 11 hospitalsID$442Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $208 across 11 hospitalsND$208Minnesota: median $81 across 23 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $211 across 46 hospitalsIL$211Wisconsin: median $215 across 59 hospitalsWI$215Michigan: median $181 across 19 hospitalsMI$181New York: median $187 across 48 hospitalsNY$187Massachusetts: median $279 across 18 hospitalsMA$279Oregon: median $258 across 25 hospitalsOR$258Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $176 across 32 hospitalsIA$176Indiana: median $78 across 20 hospitalsIN$78Ohio: median $200 across 49 hospitalsOH$200Pennsylvania: median $173 across 29 hospitalsPA$173New Jersey: median $210 across 34 hospitalsNJ$210Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $334 across 94 hospitalsCA$334Utah: median $416 across 24 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $168 across 24 hospitalsCO$168Nebraska: median $148 across 30 hospitalsNE$148Missouri: median $238 across 23 hospitalsMO$238Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $187 across 13 hospitalsWV$187Virginia: median $215 across 15 hospitalsVA$215Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $98 across 34 hospitalsKS$98Arkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $63 across 21 hospitalsTN$63North Carolina: median $180 across 24 hospitalsNC$180South Carolina: median $197 across 16 hospitalsSC$197Oklahoma: median $81 across 17 hospitalsOK$81Louisiana: median $113 across 16 hospitalsLA$113Mississippi: median $140 across 11 hospitalsMS$140Alabama: median $132 across 11 hospitalsAL$132Georgia: median $407 across 24 hospitalsGA$407Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $214 across 61 hospitalsTX$214Florida: median $501 across 38 hospitalsFL$501
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $197. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL38$501+154%$150 – $1,742
Idaho ID11$442+124%$131 – $442
Utah UT24$416+111%$363 – $466
Georgia GA24$407+106%$69 – $615
California CA94$334+70%$205 – $823
Alaska AK10$282+43%$181 – $331
Massachusetts MA18$279+42%$178 – $508
Oregon OR25$258+31%$146 – $434
Washington WA24$255+29%$192 – $374
Missouri MO23$238+21%$129 – $286
Virginia VA15$215+9%$44 – $636
Wisconsin WI59$215+9%$168 – $374
Texas TX61$214+9%$111 – $268
Illinois IL46$211+7%$86 – $311
New Jersey NJ34$210+7%$175 – $5,110
North Dakota ND11$208+6%$162 – $256
Ohio OH49$200+2%$112 – $563
South Carolina SC16$1970%$197 – $207
West Virginia WV13$187−5%$137 – $232
New York NY48$187−5%$123 – $438
Michigan MI19$181−8%$171 – $374
North Carolina NC24$180−9%$119 – $211
Iowa IA32$176−11%$130 – $191
Pennsylvania PA29$173−12%$32 – $975
Colorado CO24$168−15%$93 – $259
Nebraska NE30$148−25%$85 – $173
Mississippi MS11$140−29%$102 – $199
Alabama AL11$132−33%$111 – $194
Louisiana LA16$113−43%$59 – $169
Kansas KS34$98−50%$78 – $200
Minnesota MN23$81−59%$63 – $133
Oklahoma OK17$81−59%$81 – $322
Indiana IN20$78−61%$68 – $111
Tennessee TN21$63−68%$44 – $98
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not 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 $197.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care755$200$104 – $434
Children’s38$286$139 – $722
Critical access234$167$84 – $299
Ownership
For-profit93$207$85 – $615
Government182$161$99 – $242
Non-profit752$210$108 – $411
System affiliation
Part of a system843$203$108 – $434
Independent188$161$88 – $307

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$348
Median cash price$197
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

724 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $210 and the average of the middle 60% is $228; most fall between $104 and $416.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 724 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
$77$128$210$369$615

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($77 vs $615).

Of the 768 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 724 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,031 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,094 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,031
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,094

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 PR Apply Cast,Finger (Contracture).

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, “Finger cast application (CPT 29086) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29086-finger-cast-application