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

Long leg cast brace

CPT 29358the billing code this page is about

Application of a hinged cast brace to the leg, combining casting material with a joint that allows some knee motion.

Hospitals typically charge $373 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 544 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $398. Most fall between $238 and $715 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
544
States
47
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 544 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
$169$264$373$568$861

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($169 vs $861).

How the prices are spread

$116 – $146: 11 hospitals$116$146 – $183: 24 hospitals$183 – $230: 40 hospitals$183$230 – $290: 53 hospitals$290 – $364: 102 hospitals$290$364 – $458: 83 hospitals$458 – $575: 69 hospitals$458$575 – $723: 31 hospitals$723 – $909: 62 hospitals$723$909 – $1,143: 16 hospitals$909median $373price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (491 of 544 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$116$14611
$146$18324
$183$23040
$230$29053
$290$364102
$364$45883
$458$57569
$575$72331
$723$90962
$909$1,14316

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$373
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.30×

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 $373.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $526 across 15 hospitalsWA$526Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $272 across 14 hospitalsIL$272Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $228 across 13 hospitalsMI$228New York: median $314 across 43 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: median $345 across 10 hospitalsMA$345Oregon: median $537 across 21 hospitalsOR$537Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $385 across 18 hospitalsIA$385Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $333 across 33 hospitalsPA$333New Jersey: median $654 across 33 hospitalsNJ$654Connecticut: 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 $520 across 68 hospitalsCA$520Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $380 across 11 hospitalsCO$380Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $367 across 11 hospitalsVA$367Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $191 across 12 hospitalsKS$191Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $861 across 13 hospitalsNC$861South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $169 across 16 hospitalsOK$169Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $305 across 16 hospitalsGA$305Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $373 across 52 hospitalsTX$373Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $373. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC13$861+131%$265 – $861
New Jersey NJ33$654+76%$294 – $5,110
Oregon OR21$537+44%$307 – $715
Washington WA15$526+41%$337 – $568
California CA68$520+39%$357 – $773
Iowa IA18$385+3%$302 – $385
Colorado CO11$380+2%$303 – $387
Texas TX52$3730%$326 – $445
Virginia VA11$367−1%$343 – $367
Massachusetts MA10$345−7%$238 – $820
Pennsylvania PA33$333−11%$68 – $530
New York NY43$314−16%$223 – $735
Georgia GA16$305−18%$261 – $305
Illinois IL14$272−27%$212 – $480
Michigan MI13$228−39%$203 – $385
Kansas KS12$191−49%$188 – $269
Oklahoma OK16$169−55%$169 – $509
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $373.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care427$375$253 – $752
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access96$341$212 – $537
Ownership
For-profit48$373$212 – $662
Government89$314$247 – $511
Non-profit405$375$242 – $715
System affiliation
Part of a system441$375$258 – $727
Independent103$302$194 – $545

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$645
Median cash price$373
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

375 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $375 and the average of the middle 60% is $412; most fall between $245 and $735.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 375 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
$172$279$375$625$851

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($172 vs $851).

Of the 410 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 375 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

544 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 598 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted544
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code598

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 Long Leg Cast Brace.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Long leg cast brace (CPT 29358) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29358-long-leg-cast-brace