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

Long arm splint, shoulder to hand

CPT 29105the billing code this page is about

Application of a splint running from the upper arm across the elbow to the hand. Covers one splint application.

Hospitals typically charge $230 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,893 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $243. Most fall between $120 and $419 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,893
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 2,893 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
$82$142$230$377$569

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $569).

How the prices are spread

$61 – $79: 122 hospitals$61$79 – $102: 168 hospitals$102 – $133: 239 hospitals$102$133 – $172: 301 hospitals$172 – $223: 411 hospitals$172$223 – $288: 428 hospitals$288 – $373: 343 hospitals$288$373 – $484: 294 hospitals$484 – $626: 195 hospitals$484$626 – $812: 104 hospitals$626median $230price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,605 of 2,893 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$61$79122
$79$102168
$102$133239
$133$172301
$172$223411
$223$288428
$288$373343
$373$484294
$484$626195
$626$812104

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 $281 across 17 hospitalsAK$281Maine: median $137 across 22 hospitalsME$137Vermont: median $186 across 12 hospitalsVT$186New Hampshire: median $140 across 21 hospitalsNH$140Washington: median $246 across 71 hospitalsWA$246Idaho: median $187 across 22 hospitalsID$187Montana: median $160 across 33 hospitalsMT$160North Dakota: median $239 across 27 hospitalsND$239Minnesota: median $223 across 102 hospitalsMN$223Illinois: median $267 across 118 hospitalsIL$267Wisconsin: median $239 across 97 hospitalsWI$239Michigan: median $196 across 79 hospitalsMI$196New York: median $224 across 100 hospitalsNY$224Massachusetts: median $278 across 46 hospitalsMA$278Oregon: median $156 across 53 hospitalsOR$156Nevada: median $229 across 17 hospitalsNV$229Wyoming: median $125 across 14 hospitalsWY$125South Dakota: median $231 across 39 hospitalsSD$231Iowa: median $185 across 87 hospitalsIA$185Indiana: median $199 across 71 hospitalsIN$199Ohio: median $239 across 111 hospitalsOH$239Pennsylvania: median $281 across 117 hospitalsPA$281New Jersey: median $449 across 51 hospitalsNJ$449Connecticut: median $225 across 20 hospitalsCT$225Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $449 across 167 hospitalsCA$449Utah: median $327 across 32 hospitalsUT$327Colorado: median $226 across 58 hospitalsCO$226Nebraska: median $185 across 73 hospitalsNE$185Missouri: median $161 across 58 hospitalsMO$161Kentucky: median $184 across 49 hospitalsKY$184West Virginia: median $203 across 40 hospitalsWV$203Virginia: median $234 across 55 hospitalsVA$234Maryland: median $266 across 24 hospitalsMD$266Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $97 across 38 hospitalsAZ$97New Mexico: median $215 across 28 hospitalsNM$215Kansas: median $173 across 82 hospitalsKS$173Arkansas: median $163 across 38 hospitalsAR$163Tennessee: median $130 across 69 hospitalsTN$130North Carolina: median $259 across 65 hospitalsNC$259South Carolina: median $319 across 47 hospitalsSC$319Oklahoma: median $194 across 66 hospitalsOK$194Louisiana: median $157 across 48 hospitalsLA$157Mississippi: median $108 across 52 hospitalsMS$108Alabama: median $144 across 32 hospitalsAL$144Georgia: median $307 across 91 hospitalsGA$307Hawaii: median $377 across 18 hospitalsHI$377Texas: median $322 across 183 hospitalsTX$322Florida: median $503 across 119 hospitalsFL$503
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 FL119$503+119%$192 – $774
California CA167$449+95%$207 – $741
New Jersey NJ51$449+95%$186 – $3,986
Hawaii HI18$377+64%$346 – $478
Utah UT32$327+42%$200 – $363
Texas TX183$322+40%$145 – $548
South Carolina SC47$319+39%$207 – $427
Georgia GA91$307+34%$112 – $434
Alaska AK17$281+22%$227 – $570
Pennsylvania PA117$281+22%$161 – $569
Massachusetts MA46$278+21%$190 – $456
Illinois IL118$267+16%$131 – $436
Maryland MD24$266+16%$192 – $343
North Carolina NC65$259+13%$149 – $368
Washington WA71$246+7%$147 – $402
Wisconsin WI97$239+4%$153 – $318
North Dakota ND27$239+4%$132 – $306
Ohio OH111$239+4%$150 – $472
Virginia VA55$234+2%$108 – $478
South Dakota SD39$231+1%$125 – $302
Nevada NV17$229−1%$176 – $506
Colorado CO58$226−2%$120 – $398
Connecticut CT20$225−2%$92 – $271
New York NY100$224−3%$112 – $413
Minnesota MN102$223−3%$140 – $287
New Mexico NM28$215−6%$153 – $316
West Virginia WV40$203−12%$138 – $322
Indiana IN71$199−13%$91 – $314
Michigan MI79$196−15%$72 – $324
Oklahoma OK66$194−16%$83 – $338
Idaho ID22$187−19%$126 – $363
Vermont VT12$186−19%$105 – $482
Iowa IA87$185−19%$105 – $246
Nebraska NE73$185−19%$121 – $272
Kentucky KY49$184−20%$106 – $301
Kansas KS82$173−25%$110 – $285
Arkansas AR38$163−29%$95 – $216
Missouri MO58$161−30%$124 – $252
Montana MT33$160−30%$88 – $251
Louisiana LA48$157−32%$83 – $264
Oregon OR53$156−32%$105 – $323
Alabama AL32$144−37%$93 – $219
New Hampshire NH21$140−39%$51 – $215
Maine ME22$137−41%$107 – $243
Tennessee TN69$130−44%$80 – $276
Wyoming WY14$125−46%$53 – $465
Mississippi MS52$108−53%$50 – $248
Arizona AZ38$97−58%$65 – $272
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 care1,936$248$137 – $479
Children’s60$309$136 – $743
Critical access891$191$104 – $310
Ownership
For-profit324$290$153 – $684
Government587$187$105 – $314
Non-profit1,976$239$122 – $427
System affiliation
Part of a system2,308$245$131 – $437
Independent585$184$96 – $319

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$380
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

2,149 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $252 and the average of the middle 60% is $266; most fall between $134 and $441.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,149 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
$89$156$252$399$549

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $549).

Of the 2,298 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,149 gave a usable cash price; 56 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,893 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,099 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,893
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here90
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded106
Hospitals that filed this code3,099

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 July 20, 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 Long Arm Splint Shoulder Hand.

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, “Long arm splint, shoulder to hand (CPT 29105) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29105-long-arm-splint-shoulder-to-hand