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

Below-knee cast on the lower leg and foot

CPT 29405the billing code this page is about

Application of a short leg cast that runs from below the knee over the ankle and foot.

Hospitals typically charge $311 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,310 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $311. Most fall between $143 and $554 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,310
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 2,310 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
$97$165$311$475$778

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($97 vs $778).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $87: 76 hospitals$66$87 – $114: 118 hospitals$114 – $149: 188 hospitals$114$149 – $196: 194 hospitals$196 – $257: 272 hospitals$196$257 – $337: 321 hospitals$337 – $443: 395 hospitals$337$443 – $581: 204 hospitals$581 – $762: 183 hospitals$581$762 – $1,000: 129 hospitals$762median $311price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,080 of 2,310 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$8776
$87$114118
$114$149188
$149$196194
$196$257272
$257$337321
$337$443395
$443$581204
$581$762183
$762$1,000129

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$311
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.09×

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 $311.

Alaska: median $431 across 15 hospitalsAK$431Maine: median $176 across 21 hospitalsME$176Vermont: median $220 across 11 hospitalsVT$220New Hampshire: median $105 across 16 hospitalsNH$105Washington: median $345 across 59 hospitalsWA$345Idaho: median $394 across 21 hospitalsID$394Montana: median $148 across 26 hospitalsMT$148North Dakota: median $273 across 24 hospitalsND$273Minnesota: median $258 across 85 hospitalsMN$258Illinois: median $269 across 98 hospitalsIL$269Wisconsin: median $276 across 93 hospitalsWI$276Michigan: median $273 across 74 hospitalsMI$273New York: median $314 across 86 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: median $389 across 42 hospitalsMA$389Oregon: median $215 across 48 hospitalsOR$215Nevada: median $304 across 13 hospitalsNV$304Wyoming: median $190 across 13 hospitalsWY$190South Dakota: median $304 across 21 hospitalsSD$304Iowa: median $204 across 66 hospitalsIA$204Indiana: median $248 across 59 hospitalsIN$248Ohio: median $332 across 104 hospitalsOH$332Pennsylvania: median $340 across 103 hospitalsPA$340New Jersey: median $358 across 47 hospitalsNJ$358Connecticut: median $315 across 15 hospitalsCT$315Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $607 across 139 hospitalsCA$607Utah: median $372 across 27 hospitalsUT$372Colorado: median $273 across 43 hospitalsCO$273Nebraska: median $194 across 68 hospitalsNE$194Missouri: median $315 across 48 hospitalsMO$315Kentucky: median $172 across 28 hospitalsKY$172West Virginia: median $319 across 34 hospitalsWV$319Virginia: median $330 across 50 hospitalsVA$330Maryland: median $192 across 10 hospitalsMD$192Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $204 across 11 hospitalsAZ$204New Mexico: median $271 across 15 hospitalsNM$271Kansas: median $173 across 69 hospitalsKS$173Arkansas: median $135 across 14 hospitalsAR$135Tennessee: median $129 across 42 hospitalsTN$129North Carolina: median $295 across 49 hospitalsNC$295South Carolina: median $509 across 41 hospitalsSC$509Oklahoma: median $150 across 38 hospitalsOK$150Louisiana: median $226 across 32 hospitalsLA$226Mississippi: median $131 across 35 hospitalsMS$131Alabama: median $249 across 22 hospitalsAL$249Georgia: median $317 across 72 hospitalsGA$317Hawaii: median $688 across 14 hospitalsHI$688Texas: median $375 across 146 hospitalsTX$375Florida: median $613 across 90 hospitalsFL$613
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $311. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI14$688+121%$460 – $767
Florida FL90$613+97%$288 – $1,625
California CA139$607+95%$270 – $906
South Carolina SC41$509+64%$342 – $588
Alaska AK15$431+39%$190 – $468
Idaho ID21$394+27%$164 – $743
Massachusetts MA42$389+25%$311 – $849
Texas TX146$375+21%$160 – $476
Utah UT27$372+20%$372 – $402
New Jersey NJ47$358+15%$308 – $4,350
Washington WA59$345+11%$153 – $554
Pennsylvania PA103$340+10%$138 – $571
Ohio OH104$332+7%$226 – $794
Virginia VA50$330+6%$100 – $367
West Virginia WV34$319+3%$161 – $454
Georgia GA72$317+2%$146 – $893
Connecticut CT15$315+1%$173 – $502
Missouri MO48$315+1%$199 – $490
New York NY86$314+1%$162 – $706
Nevada NV13$304−2%$251 – $625
South Dakota SD21$304−2%$255 – $667
North Carolina NC49$295−5%$159 – $380
Wisconsin WI93$276−11%$217 – $416
Colorado CO43$273−12%$126 – $467
Michigan MI74$273−12%$65 – $416
North Dakota ND24$273−12%$153 – $478
New Mexico NM15$271−13%$206 – $395
Illinois IL98$269−13%$171 – $499
Minnesota MN85$258−17%$115 – $360
Alabama AL22$249−20%$163 – $496
Indiana IN59$248−20%$152 – $535
Louisiana LA32$226−27%$78 – $409
Vermont VT11$220−29%$139 – $406
Oregon OR48$215−31%$114 – $357
Arizona AZ11$204−34%$73 – $343
Iowa IA66$204−34%$121 – $365
Nebraska NE68$194−38%$132 – $280
Maryland MD10$192−38%$148 – $256
Wyoming WY13$190−39%$73 – $496
Maine ME21$176−43%$103 – $255
Kansas KS69$173−44%$102 – $330
Kentucky KY28$172−45%$113 – $416
Oklahoma OK38$150−52%$97 – $340
Montana MT26$148−52%$85 – $260
Arkansas AR14$135−56%$85 – $242
Mississippi MS35$131−58%$82 – $189
Tennessee TN42$129−59%$98 – $330
New Hampshire NH16$105−66%$50 – $232
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $311.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,568$339$171 – $625
Children’s67$421$216 – $887
Critical access667$209$113 – $391
Ownership
For-profit184$357$186 – $744
Government471$244$123 – $412
Non-profit1,647$319$148 – $570
System affiliation
Part of a system1,840$323$152 – $586
Independent470$240$116 – $425

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$495
Median cash price$311
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

1,742 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $337 and the average of the middle 60% is $341; most fall between $159 and $600.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,742 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
$108$191$337$517$791

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($108 vs $791).

Of the 1,859 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,742 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,310 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,310
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
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 — excluded83
Hospitals that filed this code2,479

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 Short Leg Cast Below Knee-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, “Below-knee cast on the lower leg and foot (CPT 29405) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29405-below-knee-cast-on-the-lower-leg-and-foot