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

Below-knee walking cast

CPT 29425the billing code this page is about

Application of a short leg cast made for walking, with a walking heel or reinforced sole added so weight can be placed on the foot.

Hospitals typically charge $314 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,707 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $326. Most fall between $149 and $545 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,707
States
49
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 1,707 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$179$314$492$794

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($97 vs $794).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $87: 59 hospitals$67$87 – $114: 74 hospitals$114 – $149: 126 hospitals$114$149 – $195: 131 hospitals$195 – $254: 172 hospitals$195$254 – $332: 263 hospitals$332 – $434: 254 hospitals$332$434 – $567: 234 hospitals$567 – $741: 103 hospitals$567$741 – $968: 123 hospitals$741median $314price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,539 of 1,707 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$8759
$87$11474
$114$149126
$149$195131
$195$254172
$254$332263
$332$434254
$434$567234
$567$741103
$741$968123

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$314
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.10×

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 $314.

Alaska: median $431 across 12 hospitalsAK$431Maine: median $139 across 13 hospitalsME$139Vermont: median $198 across 10 hospitalsVT$198New Hampshire: median $91 across 11 hospitalsNH$91Washington: median $452 across 51 hospitalsWA$452Idaho: median $255 across 16 hospitalsID$255Montana: median $234 across 18 hospitalsMT$234North Dakota: median $273 across 17 hospitalsND$273Minnesota: median $268 across 44 hospitalsMN$268Illinois: median $287 across 57 hospitalsIL$287Wisconsin: median $334 across 60 hospitalsWI$334Michigan: median $276 across 67 hospitalsMI$276New York: median $349 across 71 hospitalsNY$349Massachusetts: median $439 across 35 hospitalsMA$439Oregon: median $215 across 42 hospitalsOR$215Nevada: median $251 across 11 hospitalsNV$251Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $382 across 14 hospitalsSD$382Iowa: median $211 across 53 hospitalsIA$211Indiana: median $218 across 37 hospitalsIN$218Ohio: median $333 across 88 hospitalsOH$333Pennsylvania: median $336 across 82 hospitalsPA$336New Jersey: median $373 across 43 hospitalsNJ$373Connecticut: median $362 across 11 hospitalsCT$362Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $499 across 112 hospitalsCA$499Utah: median $416 across 28 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $325 across 41 hospitalsCO$325Nebraska: median $177 across 37 hospitalsNE$177Missouri: median $305 across 35 hospitalsMO$305Kentucky: median $182 across 19 hospitalsKY$182West Virginia: median $318 across 25 hospitalsWV$318Virginia: median $278 across 43 hospitalsVA$278Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $288 across 10 hospitalsNM$288Kansas: median $188 across 44 hospitalsKS$188Arkansas: median $153 across 12 hospitalsAR$153Tennessee: median $129 across 27 hospitalsTN$129North Carolina: median $354 across 42 hospitalsNC$354South Carolina: median $533 across 19 hospitalsSC$533Oklahoma: median $196 across 25 hospitalsOK$196Louisiana: median $292 across 31 hospitalsLA$292Mississippi: median $158 across 32 hospitalsMS$158Alabama: median $190 across 12 hospitalsAL$190Georgia: median $404 across 45 hospitalsGA$404Hawaii: median $634 across 13 hospitalsHI$634Texas: median $486 across 99 hospitalsTX$486Florida: median $446 across 65 hospitalsFL$446
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $314. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI13$634+102%$253 – $737
South Carolina SC19$533+70%$263 – $672
California CA112$499+59%$276 – $868
Texas TX99$486+55%$216 – $622
Washington WA51$452+44%$189 – $554
Florida FL65$446+42%$257 – $910
Massachusetts MA35$439+40%$269 – $890
Alaska AK12$431+37%$217 – $583
Utah UT28$416+32%$363 – $442
Georgia GA45$404+29%$274 – $525
South Dakota SD14$382+22%$252 – $392
New Jersey NJ43$373+19%$313 – $4,627
Connecticut CT11$362+15%$92 – $659
North Carolina NC42$354+13%$196 – $464
New York NY71$349+11%$173 – $747
Pennsylvania PA82$336+7%$150 – $557
Wisconsin WI60$334+6%$215 – $455
Ohio OH88$333+6%$254 – $794
Colorado CO41$325+3%$131 – $444
West Virginia WV25$318+1%$57 – $423
Missouri MO35$305−3%$187 – $455
Louisiana LA31$292−7%$118 – $366
New Mexico NM10$288−8%$144 – $340
Illinois IL57$287−9%$175 – $574
Virginia VA43$278−12%$237 – $410
Michigan MI67$276−12%$60 – $421
North Dakota ND17$273−13%$173 – $467
Minnesota MN44$268−15%$131 – $446
Idaho ID16$255−19%$155 – $743
Nevada NV11$251−20%$105 – $566
Montana MT18$234−26%$76 – $323
Indiana IN37$218−31%$120 – $412
Oregon OR42$215−32%$112 – $545
Iowa IA53$211−33%$137 – $335
Vermont VT10$198−37%$45 – $348
Oklahoma OK25$196−38%$90 – $386
Alabama AL12$190−40%$116 – $294
Kansas KS44$188−40%$122 – $291
Kentucky KY19$182−42%$101 – $248
Nebraska NE37$177−44%$134 – $275
Mississippi MS32$158−50%$79 – $284
Arkansas AR12$153−51%$85 – $242
Maine ME13$139−56%$123 – $221
Tennessee TN27$129−59%$80 – $160
New Hampshire NH11$91−71%$50 – $219
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $314.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,198$351$177 – $620
Children’s49$341$241 – $737
Critical access454$225$116 – $388
Ownership
For-profit129$356$147 – $656
Government327$247$123 – $454
Non-profit1,245$330$156 – $559
System affiliation
Part of a system1,357$337$160 – $573
Independent350$228$118 – $404

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$519
Median cash price$314
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

1,228 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $348 and the average of the middle 60% is $360; most fall between $171 and $581.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,228 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
$114$209$348$525$794

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($114 vs $794).

Of the 1,320 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,228 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 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,707 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,841 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,707
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 — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,841

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 Short Leg Cast,Walker.

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 walking cast (CPT 29425) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29425-below-knee-walking-cast