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

Long leg splint from thigh to ankle or toes

CPT 29505the billing code this page is about

Application of a removable splint running from the thigh down to the ankle or toes to support and immobilize the leg.

Hospitals typically charge $235 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,727 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $249. Most fall between $122 and $435 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,727
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 2,727 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
$84$145$235$384$615

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($84 vs $615).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $83: 129 hospitals$63$83 – $109: 194 hospitals$109 – $144: 218 hospitals$109$144 – $191: 389 hospitals$191 – $252: 409 hospitals$191$252 – $333: 370 hospitals$333 – $439: 345 hospitals$333$439 – $580: 231 hospitals$580 – $767: 100 hospitals$580$767 – $1,013: 70 hospitals$767median $235price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,455 of 2,727 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$83129
$83$109194
$109$144218
$144$191389
$191$252409
$252$333370
$333$439345
$439$580231
$580$767100
$767$1,01370

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$235
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.41×

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 $235.

Alaska: median $341 across 17 hospitalsAK$341Maine: median $134 across 22 hospitalsME$134Vermont: median $184 across 11 hospitalsVT$184New Hampshire: median $123 across 19 hospitalsNH$123Washington: median $302 across 70 hospitalsWA$302Idaho: median $215 across 21 hospitalsID$215Montana: median $167 across 32 hospitalsMT$167North Dakota: median $207 across 26 hospitalsND$207Minnesota: median $225 across 102 hospitalsMN$225Illinois: median $307 across 119 hospitalsIL$307Wisconsin: median $227 across 97 hospitalsWI$227Michigan: median $161 across 72 hospitalsMI$161New York: median $210 across 99 hospitalsNY$210Massachusetts: median $307 across 42 hospitalsMA$307Oregon: median $203 across 52 hospitalsOR$203Nevada: median $229 across 17 hospitalsNV$229Wyoming: median $160 across 14 hospitalsWY$160South Dakota: median $236 across 33 hospitalsSD$236Iowa: median $187 across 79 hospitalsIA$187Indiana: median $193 across 57 hospitalsIN$193Ohio: median $332 across 88 hospitalsOH$332Pennsylvania: median $323 across 116 hospitalsPA$323New Jersey: median $486 across 51 hospitalsNJ$486Connecticut: median $261 across 18 hospitalsCT$261Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $526 across 151 hospitalsCA$526Utah: median $165 across 31 hospitalsUT$165Colorado: median $217 across 58 hospitalsCO$217Nebraska: median $188 across 68 hospitalsNE$188Missouri: median $161 across 54 hospitalsMO$161Kentucky: median $203 across 52 hospitalsKY$203West Virginia: median $200 across 38 hospitalsWV$200Virginia: median $223 across 54 hospitalsVA$223Maryland: median $288 across 19 hospitalsMD$288Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $199 across 30 hospitalsAZ$199New Mexico: median $269 across 27 hospitalsNM$269Kansas: median $174 across 74 hospitalsKS$174Arkansas: median $146 across 33 hospitalsAR$146Tennessee: median $98 across 60 hospitalsTN$98North Carolina: median $242 across 59 hospitalsNC$242South Carolina: median $305 across 45 hospitalsSC$305Oklahoma: median $236 across 63 hospitalsOK$236Louisiana: median $157 across 48 hospitalsLA$157Mississippi: median $114 across 51 hospitalsMS$114Alabama: median $143 across 29 hospitalsAL$143Georgia: median $335 across 89 hospitalsGA$335Hawaii: median $382 across 18 hospitalsHI$382Texas: median $343 across 179 hospitalsTX$343Florida: median $437 across 110 hospitalsFL$437
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $235. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA151$526+124%$251 – $773
New Jersey NJ51$486+107%$186 – $3,986
Florida FL110$437+86%$182 – $1,267
Hawaii HI18$382+62%$333 – $572
Texas TX179$343+46%$142 – $472
Alaska AK17$341+45%$229 – $570
Georgia GA89$335+42%$112 – $615
Ohio OH88$332+41%$150 – $472
Pennsylvania PA116$323+37%$151 – $820
Illinois IL119$307+31%$150 – $431
Massachusetts MA42$307+31%$198 – $467
South Carolina SC45$305+30%$146 – $308
Washington WA70$302+28%$142 – $414
Maryland MD19$288+23%$158 – $428
New Mexico NM27$269+15%$175 – $486
Connecticut CT18$261+11%$155 – $321
North Carolina NC59$242+3%$151 – $327
Oklahoma OK63$2360%$108 – $469
South Dakota SD33$2360%$156 – $307
Nevada NV17$229−3%$176 – $336
Wisconsin WI97$227−3%$170 – $288
Minnesota MN102$225−4%$107 – $325
Virginia VA54$223−5%$83 – $376
Colorado CO58$217−8%$135 – $344
Idaho ID21$215−8%$104 – $442
New York NY99$210−10%$113 – $453
North Dakota ND26$207−12%$138 – $320
Kentucky KY52$203−13%$113 – $419
Oregon OR52$203−14%$130 – $319
West Virginia WV38$200−15%$136 – $392
Arizona AZ30$199−15%$107 – $565
Indiana IN57$193−18%$71 – $287
Nebraska NE68$188−20%$133 – $316
Iowa IA79$187−20%$120 – $266
Vermont VT11$184−21%$119 – $462
Kansas KS74$174−26%$103 – $291
Montana MT32$167−29%$100 – $282
Utah UT31$165−30%$156 – $219
Michigan MI72$161−31%$58 – $365
Missouri MO54$161−31%$108 – $239
Wyoming WY14$160−32%$64 – $445
Louisiana LA48$157−33%$90 – $281
Arkansas AR33$146−38%$109 – $216
Alabama AL29$143−39%$94 – $310
Maine ME22$134−43%$88 – $245
New Hampshire NH19$123−47%$43 – $215
Mississippi MS51$114−52%$70 – $240
Tennessee TN60$98−58%$75 – $218
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 $235.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,816$264$136 – $478
Children’s62$339$158 – $695
Critical access846$193$105 – $317
Ownership
For-profit293$313$148 – $735
Government567$192$110 – $325
Non-profit1,864$241$127 – $440
System affiliation
Part of a system2,168$245$134 – $461
Independent559$187$102 – $348

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$380
Median cash price$235
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

2,012 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $258 and the average of the middle 60% is $271; most fall between $137 and $461.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,012 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
$90$156$258$407$591

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($90 vs $591).

Of the 2,150 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,012 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,727 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,916 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,727
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,916

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 Splint Thigh Ankle/Toes.

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, “Long leg splint from thigh to ankle or toes (CPT 29505) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29505-long-leg-splint-from-thigh-to-ankle-or-toes