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

Full-leg cast from thigh to toes

CPT 29345the billing code this page is about

Application of a long cast that extends from the upper thigh down over the foot and toes to immobilize the leg.

Hospitals typically charge $350 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,896 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $366. Most fall between $181 and $636 (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
$120$212$350$551$881

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $881).

How the prices are spread

$92 – $119: 92 hospitals$92$119 – $155: 92 hospitals$155 – $201: 166 hospitals$155$201 – $261: 198 hospitals$261 – $339: 277 hospitals$261$339 – $440: 272 hospitals$440 – $571: 256 hospitals$440$571 – $742: 152 hospitals$742 – $963: 138 hospitals$742$963 – $1,250: 66 hospitals$963median $350price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,709 of 1,896 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$92$11992
$119$15592
$155$201166
$201$261198
$261$339277
$339$440272
$440$571256
$571$742152
$742$963138
$963$1,25066

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$350
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $350.

Alaska: median $495 across 14 hospitalsAK$495Maine: median $226 across 19 hospitalsME$226Vermont: median $406 across 11 hospitalsVT$406New Hampshire: median $133 across 14 hospitalsNH$133Washington: median $414 across 53 hospitalsWA$414Idaho: median $344 across 20 hospitalsID$344Montana: median $242 across 20 hospitalsMT$242North Dakota: median $370 across 17 hospitalsND$370Minnesota: median $272 across 61 hospitalsMN$272Illinois: median $350 across 74 hospitalsIL$350Wisconsin: median $374 across 73 hospitalsWI$374Michigan: median $277 across 68 hospitalsMI$277New York: median $332 across 77 hospitalsNY$332Massachusetts: median $612 across 32 hospitalsMA$612Oregon: median $285 across 42 hospitalsOR$285Nevada: median $315 across 11 hospitalsNV$315Wyoming: median $298 across 11 hospitalsWY$298South Dakota: median $563 across 12 hospitalsSD$563Iowa: median $302 across 60 hospitalsIA$302Indiana: median $251 across 43 hospitalsIN$251Ohio: median $399 across 78 hospitalsOH$399Pennsylvania: median $323 across 72 hospitalsPA$323New Jersey: median $600 across 47 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $357 across 13 hospitalsCT$357Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $630 across 124 hospitalsCA$630Utah: median $413 across 28 hospitalsUT$413Colorado: median $296 across 42 hospitalsCO$296Nebraska: median $275 across 53 hospitalsNE$275Missouri: median $319 across 36 hospitalsMO$319Kentucky: median $208 across 20 hospitalsKY$208West Virginia: median $321 across 27 hospitalsWV$321Virginia: median $237 across 49 hospitalsVA$237Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $466 across 20 hospitalsAZ$466New Mexico: median $310 across 14 hospitalsNM$310Kansas: median $233 across 48 hospitalsKS$233Arkansas: median $161 across 13 hospitalsAR$161Tennessee: median $129 across 39 hospitalsTN$129North Carolina: median $351 across 46 hospitalsNC$351South Carolina: median $385 across 33 hospitalsSC$385Oklahoma: median $166 across 29 hospitalsOK$166Louisiana: median $205 across 27 hospitalsLA$205Mississippi: median $160 across 26 hospitalsMS$160Alabama: median $260 across 17 hospitalsAL$260Georgia: median $605 across 48 hospitalsGA$605Hawaii: median $634 across 10 hospitalsHI$634Texas: median $465 across 111 hospitalsTX$465Florida: median $866 across 77 hospitalsFL$866
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $350. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL77$866+148%$439 – $1,699
Hawaii HI10$634+81%$249 – $688
California CA124$630+80%$317 – $899
Massachusetts MA32$612+75%$363 – $909
Georgia GA48$605+73%$163 – $1,364
New Jersey NJ47$600+72%$294 – $4,350
South Dakota SD12$563+61%$433 – $641
Alaska AK14$495+42%$425 – $820
Arizona AZ20$466+33%$81 – $1,085
Texas TX111$465+33%$174 – $556
Washington WA53$414+18%$233 – $636
Utah UT28$413+18%$334 – $442
Vermont VT11$406+16%$174 – $613
Ohio OH78$399+14%$263 – $794
South Carolina SC33$385+10%$249 – $537
Wisconsin WI73$374+7%$280 – $534
North Dakota ND17$370+6%$273 – $512
Connecticut CT13$357+2%$168 – $760
North Carolina NC46$3510%$199 – $474
Illinois IL74$3500%$253 – $600
Idaho ID20$344−2%$209 – $743
New York NY77$332−5%$249 – $851
Pennsylvania PA72$323−8%$111 – $521
West Virginia WV27$321−8%$182 – $480
Missouri MO36$319−9%$251 – $450
Nevada NV11$315−10%$251 – $724
New Mexico NM14$310−11%$290 – $653
Iowa IA60$302−14%$191 – $370
Wyoming WY11$298−15%$128 – $503
Colorado CO42$296−15%$180 – $501
Oregon OR42$285−18%$198 – $698
Michigan MI68$277−21%$123 – $427
Nebraska NE53$275−21%$185 – $429
Minnesota MN61$272−22%$147 – $505
Alabama AL17$260−26%$165 – $385
Indiana IN43$251−28%$164 – $458
Montana MT20$242−31%$146 – $357
Virginia VA49$237−32%$100 – $367
Kansas KS48$233−33%$180 – $334
Maine ME19$226−35%$178 – $305
Kentucky KY20$208−41%$113 – $435
Louisiana LA27$205−41%$83 – $313
Oklahoma OK29$166−53%$162 – $340
Arkansas AR13$161−54%$69 – $255
Mississippi MS26$160−54%$83 – $240
New Hampshire NH14$133−62%$88 – $322
Tennessee TN39$129−63%$94 – $350
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $350.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,312$370$197 – $715
Children’s62$636$219 – $1,192
Critical access517$290$161 – $467
Ownership
For-profit158$402$211 – $1,085
Government373$302$181 – $505
Non-profit1,360$363$179 – $641
System affiliation
Part of a system1,509$370$186 – $669
Independent387$287$166 – $502

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$562
Median cash price$350
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,389 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $374 and the average of the middle 60% is $389; most fall between $183 and $658.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,389 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
$120$225$374$584$881

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $881).

Of the 1,491 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,389 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 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 2,040 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 here74
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 — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code2,040

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 Long Leg Cast Thigh-Toe.

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, “Full-leg cast from thigh to toes (CPT 29345) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29345-full-leg-cast-from-thigh-to-toes