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

Strapping of the chest

CPT 29200the billing code this page is about

Application of tape or elastic strapping around the chest wall to support and limit movement of the ribs. Covers one strapping application.

Hospitals typically charge $168 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 905 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $167. Most fall between $75 and $318 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
905
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 905 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
$46$83$168$262$447

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $447).

How the prices are spread

$32 – $43: 35 hospitals$32$43 – $57: 53 hospitals$57 – $77: 58 hospitals$57$77 – $104: 115 hospitals$104 – $140: 67 hospitals$104$140 – $188: 146 hospitals$188 – $253: 146 hospitals$188$253 – $340: 68 hospitals$340 – $458: 83 hospitals$340$458 – $616: 45 hospitals$458median $168price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (816 of 905 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$32$4335
$43$5753
$57$7758
$77$104115
$104$14067
$140$188146
$188$253146
$253$34068
$340$45883
$458$61645

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$168
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.01×

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 $168.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $168 across 30 hospitalsWA$168Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $80 across 10 hospitalsMT$80North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $81 across 20 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $122 across 29 hospitalsIL$122Wisconsin: median $110 across 22 hospitalsWI$110Michigan: median $99 across 15 hospitalsMI$99New York: median $187 across 43 hospitalsNY$187Massachusetts: median $203 across 15 hospitalsMA$203Oregon: median $168 across 23 hospitalsOR$168Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $82 across 25 hospitalsIA$82Indiana: median $100 across 41 hospitalsIN$100Ohio: median $152 across 26 hospitalsOH$152Pennsylvania: median $166 across 41 hospitalsPA$166New Jersey: median $396 across 36 hospitalsNJ$396Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $447 across 66 hospitalsCA$447Utah: median $223 across 22 hospitalsUT$223Colorado: median $147 across 19 hospitalsCO$147Nebraska: median $132 across 19 hospitalsNE$132Missouri: median $120 across 17 hospitalsMO$120Kentucky: median $175 across 19 hospitalsKY$175West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $168 across 20 hospitalsVA$168Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $101 across 12 hospitalsAZ$101New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $84 across 16 hospitalsKS$84Arkansas: median $103 across 10 hospitalsAR$103Tennessee: median $76 across 17 hospitalsTN$76North Carolina: median $93 across 13 hospitalsNC$93South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $54 across 30 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $59 across 12 hospitalsLA$59Mississippi: median $69 across 24 hospitalsMS$69Alabama: median $97 across 11 hospitalsAL$97Georgia: median $262 across 31 hospitalsGA$262Hawaii: median $233 across 11 hospitalsHI$233Texas: median $197 across 65 hospitalsTX$197Florida: median $417 across 25 hospitalsFL$417
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $168. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA66$447+167%$242 – $616
Florida FL25$417+149%$158 – $723
New Jersey NJ36$396+136%$175 – $4,881
Georgia GA31$262+56%$124 – $365
Hawaii HI11$233+39%$35 – $410
Utah UT22$223+33%$195 – $261
Massachusetts MA15$203+21%$145 – $359
Texas TX65$197+18%$133 – $226
New York NY43$187+11%$74 – $206
Kentucky KY19$175+4%$50 – $563
Oregon OR23$1680%$57 – $362
Washington WA30$1680%$127 – $244
Virginia VA20$1680%$168 – $342
Pennsylvania PA41$166−1%$14 – $379
Ohio OH26$152−9%$84 – $308
Colorado CO19$147−12%$66 – $209
Nebraska NE19$132−21%$79 – $189
Illinois IL29$122−27%$78 – $341
Missouri MO17$120−29%$59 – $183
Wisconsin WI22$110−34%$95 – $169
Arkansas AR10$103−39%$88 – $157
Arizona AZ12$101−40%$42 – $154
Indiana IN41$100−41%$79 – $157
Michigan MI15$99−41%$43 – $223
Alabama AL11$97−42%$60 – $155
North Carolina NC13$93−44%$87 – $162
Kansas KS16$84−50%$55 – $198
Iowa IA25$82−51%$47 – $163
Minnesota MN20$81−51%$44 – $138
Montana MT10$80−52%$71 – $215
Tennessee TN17$76−54%$46 – $215
Mississippi MS24$69−59%$52 – $115
Louisiana LA12$59−65%$44 – $95
Oklahoma OK30$54−68%$31 – $317
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $168.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care658$181$81 – $365
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access227$132$61 – $223
Ownership
For-profit96$191$84 – $443
Government156$147$67 – $252
Non-profit651$168$75 – $328
System affiliation
Part of a system716$175$77 – $349
Independent189$142$62 – $234

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$280
Median cash price$168
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

642 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $183 and the average of the middle 60% is $180; most fall between $75 and $345.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 642 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
$49$83$183$284$447

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($49 vs $447).

Of the 686 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 642 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

905 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 980 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted905
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code980

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 Strapping Thorax.

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, “Strapping of the chest (CPT 29200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29200-strapping-of-the-chest