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

Strapping of the shoulder

CPT 29240the billing code this page is about

Application of tape or elastic strapping to support the shoulder and limit its movement. Covers one strapping application.

Hospitals typically charge $163 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,019 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $175. Most fall between $74 and $334 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,019
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 2,019 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
$50$89$163$286$448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $448).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $46: 73 hospitals$35$46 – $61: 145 hospitals$61 – $80: 128 hospitals$61$80 – $106: 186 hospitals$106 – $141: 234 hospitals$106$141 – $187: 272 hospitals$187 – $247: 265 hospitals$187$247 – $327: 202 hospitals$327 – $433: 198 hospitals$327$433 – $574: 116 hospitals$433median $163price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,819 of 2,019 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4673
$46$61145
$61$80128
$80$106186
$106$141234
$141$187272
$187$247265
$247$327202
$327$433198
$433$574116

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$163
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $163.

Alaska: median $196 across 14 hospitalsAK$196Maine: median $107 across 17 hospitalsME$107Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $185 across 63 hospitalsWA$185Idaho: median $296 across 15 hospitalsID$296Montana: median $122 across 21 hospitalsMT$122North Dakota: median $103 across 14 hospitalsND$103Minnesota: median $81 across 32 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $178 across 91 hospitalsIL$178Wisconsin: median $110 across 65 hospitalsWI$110Michigan: median $91 across 40 hospitalsMI$91New York: median $165 across 83 hospitalsNY$165Massachusetts: median $238 across 32 hospitalsMA$238Oregon: median $104 across 35 hospitalsOR$104Nevada: median $144 across 12 hospitalsNV$144Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $199 across 11 hospitalsSD$199Iowa: median $128 across 56 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $83 across 60 hospitalsIN$83Ohio: median $227 across 80 hospitalsOH$227Pennsylvania: median $184 across 90 hospitalsPA$184New Jersey: median $352 across 54 hospitalsNJ$352Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $340 across 125 hospitalsCA$340Utah: median $394 across 30 hospitalsUT$394Colorado: median $125 across 44 hospitalsCO$125Nebraska: median $172 across 47 hospitalsNE$172Missouri: median $113 across 47 hospitalsMO$113Kentucky: median $156 across 38 hospitalsKY$156West Virginia: median $200 across 19 hospitalsWV$200Virginia: median $338 across 45 hospitalsVA$338Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $150 across 20 hospitalsAZ$150New Mexico: median $195 across 20 hospitalsNM$195Kansas: median $143 across 53 hospitalsKS$143Arkansas: median $95 across 16 hospitalsAR$95Tennessee: median $52 across 38 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $135 across 52 hospitalsNC$135South Carolina: median $228 across 36 hospitalsSC$228Oklahoma: median $130 across 56 hospitalsOK$130Louisiana: median $77 across 37 hospitalsLA$77Mississippi: median $91 across 46 hospitalsMS$91Alabama: median $102 across 22 hospitalsAL$102Georgia: median $156 across 57 hospitalsGA$156Hawaii: median $293 across 12 hospitalsHI$293Texas: median $205 across 155 hospitalsTX$205Florida: median $284 across 75 hospitalsFL$284
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $163. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT30$394+141%$167 – $442
New Jersey NJ54$352+115%$143 – $3,986
California CA125$340+108%$152 – $492
Virginia VA45$338+107%$83 – $478
Idaho ID15$296+81%$61 – $360
Hawaii HI12$293+80%$275 – $350
Florida FL75$284+74%$127 – $795
Massachusetts MA32$238+46%$153 – $359
South Carolina SC36$228+40%$139 – $230
Ohio OH80$227+39%$99 – $382
Texas TX155$205+26%$102 – $282
West Virginia WV19$200+22%$53 – $391
South Dakota SD11$199+22%$89 – $219
Alaska AK14$196+20%$127 – $343
New Mexico NM20$195+19%$110 – $236
Washington WA63$185+13%$89 – $343
Pennsylvania PA90$184+13%$111 – $430
Illinois IL91$178+9%$97 – $346
Nebraska NE47$172+5%$63 – $254
New York NY83$165+1%$100 – $362
Kentucky KY38$156−4%$93 – $367
Georgia GA57$156−4%$55 – $305
Arizona AZ20$150−8%$33 – $181
Nevada NV12$144−12%$47 – $203
Kansas KS53$143−13%$61 – $343
North Carolina NC52$135−17%$88 – $172
Oklahoma OK56$130−21%$54 – $283
Iowa IA56$128−21%$75 – $222
Colorado CO44$125−23%$56 – $257
Montana MT21$122−25%$74 – $189
Missouri MO47$113−31%$68 – $202
Wisconsin WI65$110−33%$59 – $168
Maine ME17$107−35%$64 – $196
Oregon OR35$104−36%$53 – $314
North Dakota ND14$103−37%$77 – $212
Alabama AL22$102−38%$53 – $150
Arkansas AR16$95−42%$60 – $140
Michigan MI40$91−44%$59 – $131
Mississippi MS46$91−44%$63 – $181
Indiana IN60$83−49%$50 – $164
Minnesota MN32$81−50%$53 – $164
Louisiana LA37$77−53%$48 – $201
Tennessee TN38$52−68%$49 – $166
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $163.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,404$183$89 – $355
Children’s50$195$101 – $574
Critical access562$116$59 – $238
Ownership
For-profit200$190$90 – $407
Government413$135$61 – $277
Non-profit1,403$172$75 – $345
System affiliation
Part of a system1,602$176$78 – $346
Independent417$128$60 – $245

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$290
Median cash price$163
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

1,506 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $189 and the average of the middle 60% is $196; most fall between $87 and $346.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,506 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$102$189$305$448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($53 vs $448).

Of the 1,614 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,506 gave a usable cash price; 40 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

2,019 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,170 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,019
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
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 — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code2,170

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 Strapping of Shoulder.

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 shoulder (CPT 29240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29240-strapping-of-the-shoulder