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

Short arm splint, forearm to hand, adjustable

CPT 29126the billing code this page is about

Application of a dynamic forearm-to-hand splint that allows controlled movement while supporting the wrist or hand. Covers one splint application.

Hospitals typically charge $212 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,896 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $228. Most fall between $116 and $393 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,896
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 1,896 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
$78$132$212$356$573

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($78 vs $573).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $76: 89 hospitals$59$76 – $99: 101 hospitals$99 – $129: 169 hospitals$99$129 – $167: 253 hospitals$167 – $217: 267 hospitals$167$217 – $282: 254 hospitals$282 – $366: 223 hospitals$282$366 – $476: 169 hospitals$476 – $618: 99 hospitals$476$618 – $802: 84 hospitals$618median $212price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,708 of 1,896 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$7689
$76$99101
$99$129169
$129$167253
$167$217267
$217$282254
$282$366223
$366$476169
$476$61899
$618$80284

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$212
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.56×

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 $212.

Alaska: median $285 across 16 hospitalsAK$285Maine: median $141 across 11 hospitalsME$141Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $82 across 10 hospitalsNH$82Washington: median $263 across 37 hospitalsWA$263Idaho: median $224 across 15 hospitalsID$224Montana: median $122 across 15 hospitalsMT$122North Dakota: median $161 across 16 hospitalsND$161Minnesota: median $211 across 59 hospitalsMN$211Illinois: median $265 across 74 hospitalsIL$265Wisconsin: median $235 across 55 hospitalsWI$235Michigan: median $166 across 61 hospitalsMI$166New York: median $158 across 64 hospitalsNY$158Massachusetts: median $305 across 25 hospitalsMA$305Oregon: median $260 across 37 hospitalsOR$260Nevada: median $259 across 13 hospitalsNV$259Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $280 across 11 hospitalsSD$280Iowa: median $175 across 44 hospitalsIA$175Indiana: median $140 across 48 hospitalsIN$140Ohio: median $271 across 69 hospitalsOH$271Pennsylvania: median $239 across 79 hospitalsPA$239New Jersey: median $600 across 45 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: 8 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 $380 across 115 hospitalsCA$380Utah: median $169 across 17 hospitalsUT$169Colorado: median $250 across 43 hospitalsCO$250Nebraska: median $178 across 41 hospitalsNE$178Missouri: median $174 across 42 hospitalsMO$174Kentucky: median $127 across 23 hospitalsKY$127West Virginia: median $193 across 26 hospitalsWV$193Virginia: median $233 across 53 hospitalsVA$233Maryland: median $288 across 20 hospitalsMD$288Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $155 across 30 hospitalsAZ$155New Mexico: median $203 across 18 hospitalsNM$203Kansas: median $211 across 46 hospitalsKS$211Arkansas: median $211 across 24 hospitalsAR$211Tennessee: median $123 across 57 hospitalsTN$123North Carolina: median $188 across 51 hospitalsNC$188South Carolina: median $429 across 33 hospitalsSC$429Oklahoma: median $105 across 41 hospitalsOK$105Louisiana: median $128 across 36 hospitalsLA$128Mississippi: median $98 across 42 hospitalsMS$98Alabama: median $135 across 19 hospitalsAL$135Georgia: median $190 across 52 hospitalsGA$190Hawaii: median $235 across 15 hospitalsHI$235Texas: median $368 across 140 hospitalsTX$368Florida: median $279 across 75 hospitalsFL$279
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $212. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ45$600+183%$152 – $4,350
South Carolina SC33$429+103%$187 – $758
California CA115$380+79%$170 – $801
Texas TX140$368+74%$154 – $440
Massachusetts MA25$305+44%$157 – $396
Maryland MD20$288+36%$193 – $361
Alaska AK16$285+35%$226 – $582
South Dakota SD11$280+32%$217 – $280
Florida FL75$279+32%$170 – $723
Ohio OH69$271+28%$144 – $385
Illinois IL74$265+25%$162 – $507
Washington WA37$263+24%$181 – $374
Oregon OR37$260+23%$149 – $346
Nevada NV13$259+22%$144 – $305
Colorado CO43$250+18%$160 – $376
Pennsylvania PA79$239+13%$124 – $471
Wisconsin WI55$235+11%$156 – $286
Hawaii HI15$235+11%$97 – $494
Virginia VA53$233+10%$133 – $344
Idaho ID15$224+6%$118 – $360
Minnesota MN59$2110%$131 – $279
Arkansas AR24$2110%$114 – $249
Kansas KS46$211−1%$119 – $334
New Mexico NM18$203−4%$124 – $787
West Virginia WV26$193−9%$121 – $316
Georgia GA52$190−10%$110 – $336
North Carolina NC51$188−11%$96 – $270
Nebraska NE41$178−16%$106 – $271
Iowa IA44$175−17%$125 – $212
Missouri MO42$174−18%$113 – $364
Utah UT17$169−20%$110 – $169
Michigan MI61$166−22%$64 – $349
North Dakota ND16$161−24%$133 – $207
New York NY64$158−25%$85 – $355
Arizona AZ30$155−27%$66 – $983
Maine ME11$141−33%$103 – $278
Indiana IN48$140−34%$79 – $286
Alabama AL19$135−36%$97 – $179
Louisiana LA36$128−40%$55 – $207
Kentucky KY23$127−40%$79 – $235
Tennessee TN57$123−42%$66 – $232
Montana MT15$122−43%$73 – $186
Oklahoma OK41$105−51%$81 – $263
Mississippi MS42$98−54%$59 – $223
New Hampshire NH10$82−62%$43 – $215
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not 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 $212.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,378$229$123 – $412
Children’s49$315$164 – $606
Critical access464$189$102 – $286
Ownership
For-profit205$244$119 – $647
Government341$177$102 – $296
Non-profit1,345$224$122 – $400
System affiliation
Part of a system1,544$223$123 – $401
Independent352$178$103 – $325

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$361
Median cash price$212
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,377 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $234 and the average of the middle 60% is $244; most fall between $122 and $400.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,377 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$136$234$374$546

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $546).

Of the 1,486 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,377 gave a usable cash price; 41 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

1,896 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,042 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,896
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
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 — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code2,042

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 Short Arm Splint Dynamic.

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, adjustable (CPT 29126) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29126-short-arm-splint-forearm-to-hand-adjustable