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

Strapping of the hand or a finger

CPT 29280the billing code this page is about

Application of tape or elastic strapping to support the hand or a finger. Covers one strapping application.

Hospitals typically charge $111 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,822 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $126. Most fall between $57 and $254 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,822
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 1,822 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
$41$67$111$221$373

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $373).

How the prices are spread

$32 – $43: 105 hospitals$32$43 – $57: 152 hospitals$57 – $75: 233 hospitals$57$75 – $99: 228 hospitals$99 – $131: 227 hospitals$99$131 – $173: 184 hospitals$173 – $228: 177 hospitals$173$228 – $302: 128 hospitals$302 – $399: 137 hospitals$302$399 – $528: 69 hospitals$399median $111price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,640 of 1,822 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$32$43105
$43$57152
$57$75233
$75$99228
$99$131227
$131$173184
$173$228177
$228$302128
$302$399137
$399$52869

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$111
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.85×

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 $111.

Alaska: median $112 across 11 hospitalsAK$112Maine: median $67 across 16 hospitalsME$67Vermont: 9 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 $132 across 45 hospitalsWA$132Idaho: median $166 across 14 hospitalsID$166Montana: median $79 across 18 hospitalsMT$79North Dakota: median $87 across 10 hospitalsND$87Minnesota: median $81 across 54 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $123 across 65 hospitalsIL$123Wisconsin: median $89 across 51 hospitalsWI$89Michigan: median $91 across 49 hospitalsMI$91New York: median $80 across 84 hospitalsNY$80Massachusetts: median $182 across 34 hospitalsMA$182Oregon: median $54 across 29 hospitalsOR$54Nevada: median $90 across 10 hospitalsNV$90Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $106 across 41 hospitalsIA$106Indiana: median $86 across 53 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $177 across 89 hospitalsOH$177Pennsylvania: median $99 across 74 hospitalsPA$99New Jersey: median $284 across 48 hospitalsNJ$284Connecticut: median $110 across 10 hospitalsCT$110Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $181 across 122 hospitalsCA$181Utah: median $416 across 26 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $123 across 37 hospitalsCO$123Nebraska: median $88 across 46 hospitalsNE$88Missouri: median $73 across 35 hospitalsMO$73Kentucky: median $103 across 33 hospitalsKY$103West Virginia: median $123 across 18 hospitalsWV$123Virginia: median $98 across 55 hospitalsVA$98Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $113 across 17 hospitalsAZ$113New Mexico: median $144 across 15 hospitalsNM$144Kansas: median $113 across 36 hospitalsKS$113Arkansas: median $73 across 11 hospitalsAR$73Tennessee: median $57 across 34 hospitalsTN$57North Carolina: median $109 across 39 hospitalsNC$109South Carolina: median $230 across 27 hospitalsSC$230Oklahoma: median $77 across 48 hospitalsOK$77Louisiana: median $52 across 28 hospitalsLA$52Mississippi: median $70 across 40 hospitalsMS$70Alabama: median $75 across 20 hospitalsAL$75Georgia: median $128 across 50 hospitalsGA$128Hawaii: median $291 across 13 hospitalsHI$291Texas: median $217 across 137 hospitalsTX$217Florida: median $203 across 84 hospitalsFL$203
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $111. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT26$416+273%$363 – $442
Hawaii HI13$291+161%$142 – $329
New Jersey NJ48$284+155%$70 – $4,350
South Carolina SC27$230+107%$71 – $234
Texas TX137$217+94%$61 – $232
Florida FL84$203+82%$78 – $609
Massachusetts MA34$182+63%$91 – $313
California CA122$181+63%$93 – $317
Ohio OH89$177+59%$75 – $361
Idaho ID14$166+49%$45 – $170
New Mexico NM15$144+29%$63 – $195
Washington WA45$132+18%$56 – $194
Georgia GA50$128+15%$51 – $292
Colorado CO37$123+11%$74 – $156
Illinois IL65$123+11%$65 – $294
West Virginia WV18$123+10%$50 – $228
Arizona AZ17$113+1%$33 – $163
Kansas KS36$113+1%$50 – $368
Alaska AK11$112+1%$103 – $215
Connecticut CT10$110−1%$38 – $199
North Carolina NC39$109−2%$55 – $198
Iowa IA41$106−4%$60 – $180
Kentucky KY33$103−7%$57 – $144
Pennsylvania PA74$99−11%$58 – $205
Virginia VA55$98−12%$48 – $340
Michigan MI49$91−18%$67 – $242
Nevada NV10$90−19%$38 – $175
Wisconsin WI51$89−20%$72 – $100
Nebraska NE46$88−21%$60 – $157
North Dakota ND10$87−22%$68 – $144
Indiana IN53$86−22%$62 – $145
Minnesota MN54$81−27%$48 – $143
New York NY84$80−29%$60 – $195
Montana MT18$79−29%$45 – $94
Oklahoma OK48$77−31%$34 – $187
Alabama AL20$75−33%$30 – $150
Missouri MO35$73−34%$53 – $121
Arkansas AR11$73−34%$49 – $86
Mississippi MS40$70−37%$38 – $81
Maine ME16$67−39%$44 – $190
Tennessee TN34$57−49%$36 – $187
Oregon OR29$54−52%$49 – $171
Louisiana LA28$52−53%$19 – $93
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $111.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,308$121$58 – $278
Children’s46$176$106 – $371
Critical access463$91$51 – $170
Ownership
For-profit185$170$65 – $346
Government337$100$53 – $183
Non-profit1,295$111$59 – $262
System affiliation
Part of a system1,476$114$60 – $278
Independent346$98$51 – $211

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$198
Median cash price$111
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,358 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $127 and the average of the middle 60% is $141; most fall between $63 and $286.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,358 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
$45$72$127$234$399

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($45 vs $399).

Of the 1,452 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,358 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,822 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,964 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,822
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded71
Hospitals that filed this code1,964

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 Hand/Finger.

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 hand or a finger (CPT 29280) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29280-strapping-of-the-hand-or-a-finger