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

Short arm splint, forearm to hand, non-moving

CPT 29125the billing code this page is about

Application of a fixed (static) splint running from the forearm to the hand to hold the wrist still. Covers one splint application.

Hospitals typically charge $192 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,991 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $205. Most fall between $97 and $377 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,991
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 2,991 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
$68$116$192$326$527

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($68 vs $527).

How the prices are spread

$46 – $61: 107 hospitals$46$61 – $81: 181 hospitals$81 – $106: 232 hospitals$81$106 – $140: 336 hospitals$140 – $185: 432 hospitals$140$185 – $244: 441 hospitals$244 – $321: 350 hospitals$244$321 – $424: 300 hospitals$424 – $559: 194 hospitals$424$559 – $736: 120 hospitals$559median $192price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,693 of 2,991 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$46$61107
$61$81181
$81$106232
$106$140336
$140$185432
$185$244441
$244$321350
$321$424300
$424$559194
$559$736120

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$192
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.41×

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 $192.

Alaska: median $266 across 17 hospitalsAK$266Maine: median $119 across 22 hospitalsME$119Vermont: median $142 across 12 hospitalsVT$142New Hampshire: median $109 across 23 hospitalsNH$109Washington: median $187 across 73 hospitalsWA$187Idaho: median $169 across 24 hospitalsID$169Montana: median $130 across 33 hospitalsMT$130North Dakota: median $184 across 29 hospitalsND$184Minnesota: median $193 across 106 hospitalsMN$193Illinois: median $245 across 123 hospitalsIL$245Wisconsin: median $190 across 101 hospitalsWI$190Michigan: median $176 across 82 hospitalsMI$176New York: median $166 across 101 hospitalsNY$166Massachusetts: median $270 across 47 hospitalsMA$270Oregon: median $126 across 53 hospitalsOR$126Nevada: median $197 across 17 hospitalsNV$197Wyoming: median $90 across 14 hospitalsWY$90South Dakota: median $178 across 43 hospitalsSD$178Iowa: median $157 across 92 hospitalsIA$157Indiana: median $182 across 76 hospitalsIN$182Ohio: median $232 across 114 hospitalsOH$232Pennsylvania: median $241 across 120 hospitalsPA$241New Jersey: median $437 across 51 hospitalsNJ$437Connecticut: median $220 across 19 hospitalsCT$220Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $406 across 166 hospitalsCA$406Utah: median $294 across 34 hospitalsUT$294Colorado: median $186 across 63 hospitalsCO$186Nebraska: median $157 across 75 hospitalsNE$157Missouri: median $148 across 63 hospitalsMO$148Kentucky: median $174 across 50 hospitalsKY$174West Virginia: median $153 across 40 hospitalsWV$153Virginia: median $240 across 56 hospitalsVA$240Maryland: median $248 across 26 hospitalsMD$248Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $78 across 41 hospitalsAZ$78New Mexico: median $170 across 29 hospitalsNM$170Kansas: median $125 across 86 hospitalsKS$125Arkansas: median $133 across 37 hospitalsAR$133Tennessee: median $117 across 71 hospitalsTN$117North Carolina: median $213 across 64 hospitalsNC$213South Carolina: median $366 across 47 hospitalsSC$366Oklahoma: median $130 across 66 hospitalsOK$130Louisiana: median $144 across 49 hospitalsLA$144Mississippi: median $84 across 52 hospitalsMS$84Alabama: median $126 across 36 hospitalsAL$126Georgia: median $297 across 91 hospitalsGA$297Hawaii: median $253 across 20 hospitalsHI$253Texas: median $220 across 196 hospitalsTX$220Florida: median $366 across 127 hospitalsFL$366
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $192. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ51$437+128%$154 – $3,986
California CA166$406+111%$189 – $680
South Carolina SC47$366+91%$166 – $455
Florida FL127$366+91%$157 – $774
Georgia GA91$297+55%$110 – $529
Utah UT34$294+53%$97 – $326
Massachusetts MA47$270+41%$150 – $386
Alaska AK17$266+38%$203 – $437
Hawaii HI20$253+32%$174 – $333
Maryland MD26$248+29%$183 – $316
Illinois IL123$245+28%$109 – $376
Pennsylvania PA120$241+26%$136 – $438
Virginia VA56$240+25%$112 – $422
Ohio OH114$232+21%$120 – $385
Texas TX196$220+15%$126 – $426
Connecticut CT19$220+15%$92 – $283
North Carolina NC64$213+11%$126 – $312
Nevada NV17$197+3%$124 – $315
Minnesota MN106$1930%$99 – $226
Wisconsin WI101$190−1%$136 – $241
Washington WA73$187−3%$112 – $428
Colorado CO63$186−3%$128 – $315
North Dakota ND29$184−4%$103 – $239
Indiana IN76$182−5%$69 – $325
South Dakota SD43$178−7%$112 – $278
Michigan MI82$176−9%$61 – $222
Kentucky KY50$174−9%$76 – $248
New Mexico NM29$170−12%$123 – $420
Idaho ID24$169−12%$98 – $296
New York NY101$166−13%$80 – $336
Iowa IA92$157−18%$90 – $223
Nebraska NE75$157−18%$104 – $237
West Virginia WV40$153−20%$108 – $256
Missouri MO63$148−23%$102 – $293
Louisiana LA49$144−25%$66 – $206
Vermont VT12$142−26%$72 – $398
Arkansas AR37$133−30%$94 – $202
Montana MT33$130−32%$65 – $206
Oklahoma OK66$130−32%$60 – $306
Oregon OR53$126−34%$94 – $228
Alabama AL36$126−35%$94 – $247
Kansas KS86$125−35%$78 – $228
Maine ME22$119−38%$77 – $242
Tennessee TN71$117−39%$68 – $234
New Hampshire NH23$109−43%$43 – $215
Wyoming WY14$90−53%$49 – $386
Mississippi MS52$84−56%$46 – $208
Arizona AZ41$78−59%$53 – $243
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 $192.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,993$212$111 – $431
Children’s64$246$129 – $566
Critical access928$151$82 – $253
Ownership
For-profit345$242$128 – $555
Government607$153$83 – $268
Non-profit2,033$200$100 – $384
System affiliation
Part of a system2,385$202$107 – $398
Independent606$149$82 – $267

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$318
Median cash price$192
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

2,235 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $215 and the average of the middle 60% is $228; most fall between $110 and $385.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,235 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
$76$126$215$354$504

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $504).

Of the 2,397 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,235 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,991 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,205 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,991
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here95
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded110
Hospitals that filed this code3,205

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 Short Arm Splint Forearm-Hand Static.

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 splint, forearm to hand, non-moving (CPT 29125) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29125-short-arm-splint-forearm-to-hand-non-moving