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

Finger splint, adjustable

CPT 29131the billing code this page is about

Application of a dynamic finger splint that permits controlled movement while supporting the finger. Covers one splint application.

Hospitals typically charge $142 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,734 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $153. Most fall between $70 and $302 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,734
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 1,734 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
$53$79$142$247$458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($53 vs $458).

How the prices are spread

$36 – $49: 62 hospitals$36$49 – $65: 128 hospitals$65 – $86: 212 hospitals$65$86 – $115: 215 hospitals$115 – $153: 212 hospitals$115$153 – $205: 271 hospitals$205 – $273: 160 hospitals$205$273 – $364: 152 hospitals$364 – $485: 74 hospitals$364$485 – $646: 76 hospitals$485median $142price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,562 of 1,734 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$36$4962
$49$65128
$65$86212
$86$115215
$115$153212
$153$205271
$205$273160
$273$364152
$364$48574
$485$64676

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$142
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $142.

Alaska: median $209 across 13 hospitalsAK$209Maine: median $83 across 14 hospitalsME$83Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $54 across 12 hospitalsNH$54Washington: median $126 across 44 hospitalsWA$126Idaho: median $166 across 15 hospitalsID$166Montana: median $79 across 11 hospitalsMT$79North Dakota: median $105 across 16 hospitalsND$105Minnesota: median $159 across 48 hospitalsMN$159Illinois: median $168 across 73 hospitalsIL$168Wisconsin: median $168 across 38 hospitalsWI$168Michigan: median $97 across 38 hospitalsMI$97New York: median $109 across 69 hospitalsNY$109Massachusetts: median $192 across 32 hospitalsMA$192Oregon: median $171 across 28 hospitalsOR$171Nevada: median $166 across 10 hospitalsNV$166Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $127 across 37 hospitalsIA$127Indiana: median $78 across 35 hospitalsIN$78Ohio: median $113 across 60 hospitalsOH$113Pennsylvania: median $221 across 78 hospitalsPA$221New Jersey: median $237 across 42 hospitalsNJ$237Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $309 across 121 hospitalsCA$309Utah: median $92 across 28 hospitalsUT$92Colorado: median $111 across 40 hospitalsCO$111Nebraska: median $111 across 33 hospitalsNE$111Missouri: median $108 across 34 hospitalsMO$108Kentucky: median $109 across 21 hospitalsKY$109West Virginia: median $149 across 17 hospitalsWV$149Virginia: median $244 across 50 hospitalsVA$244Maryland: median $185 across 20 hospitalsMD$185Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $184 across 28 hospitalsAZ$184New Mexico: median $140 across 10 hospitalsNM$140Kansas: median $170 across 44 hospitalsKS$170Arkansas: median $118 across 15 hospitalsAR$118Tennessee: median $62 across 51 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: median $146 across 45 hospitalsNC$146South Carolina: median $294 across 40 hospitalsSC$294Oklahoma: median $76 across 37 hospitalsOK$76Louisiana: median $72 across 32 hospitalsLA$72Mississippi: median $74 across 37 hospitalsMS$74Alabama: median $98 across 20 hospitalsAL$98Georgia: median $172 across 63 hospitalsGA$172Hawaii: median $246 across 13 hospitalsHI$246Texas: median $157 across 118 hospitalsTX$157Florida: median $203 across 71 hospitalsFL$203
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $142. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA121$309+118%$125 – $526
South Carolina SC40$294+108%$124 – $312
Hawaii HI13$246+74%$142 – $307
Virginia VA50$244+72%$98 – $340
New Jersey NJ42$237+67%$68 – $4,627
Pennsylvania PA78$221+56%$68 – $507
Alaska AK13$209+48%$112 – $407
Florida FL71$203+44%$100 – $386
Massachusetts MA32$192+36%$117 – $359
Maryland MD20$185+31%$144 – $225
Arizona AZ28$184+30%$44 – $925
Georgia GA63$172+21%$66 – $323
Oregon OR28$171+21%$103 – $180
Kansas KS44$170+20%$75 – $331
Wisconsin WI38$168+18%$76 – $171
Illinois IL73$168+18%$75 – $359
Nevada NV10$166+18%$64 – $245
Idaho ID15$166+17%$98 – $166
Minnesota MN48$159+13%$93 – $247
Texas TX118$157+11%$77 – $295
West Virginia WV17$149+5%$82 – $340
North Carolina NC45$146+3%$94 – $214
New Mexico NM10$140−1%$74 – $243
Iowa IA37$127−10%$82 – $176
Washington WA44$126−11%$93 – $246
Arkansas AR15$118−17%$66 – $164
Ohio OH60$113−21%$69 – $177
Nebraska NE33$111−22%$78 – $295
Colorado CO40$111−22%$94 – $190
Kentucky KY21$109−23%$70 – $185
New York NY69$109−23%$70 – $234
Missouri MO34$108−24%$75 – $354
North Dakota ND16$105−26%$61 – $193
Alabama AL20$98−31%$50 – $120
Michigan MI38$97−31%$65 – $141
Utah UT28$92−35%$92 – $122
Maine ME14$83−41%$53 – $158
Montana MT11$79−44%$44 – $158
Indiana IN35$78−45%$63 – $127
Oklahoma OK37$76−47%$57 – $199
Mississippi MS37$74−47%$36 – $109
Louisiana LA32$72−49%$37 – $136
Tennessee TN51$62−56%$33 – $106
New Hampshire NH12$54−62%$26 – $183
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not 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 $142.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,287$150$70 – $323
Children’s48$260$104 – $395
Critical access397$117$70 – $207
Ownership
For-profit187$174$75 – $373
Government291$113$65 – $214
Non-profit1,254$147$72 – $310
System affiliation
Part of a system1,422$149$72 – $310
Independent312$120$68 – $245

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$248
Median cash price$142
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

1,290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $154 and the average of the middle 60% is $163; most fall between $75 and $312.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,290 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
$53$86$154$268$457

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($53 vs $457).

Of the 1,400 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,290 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 67 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,734 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,879 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,734
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code1,879

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 Finger 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, “Finger splint, adjustable (CPT 29131) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29131-finger-splint-adjustable