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

Taping or strapping of the hip

CPT 29520the billing code this page is about

Application of tape, elastic wrap, or similar strapping to support the hip.

Hospitals typically charge $152 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 974 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $160. Most fall between $77 and $309 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
974
States
50
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 974 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
$47$88$152$252$416

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $416).

How the prices are spread

$31 – $41: 36 hospitals$31$41 – $55: 45 hospitals$55 – $73: 62 hospitals$55$73 – $97: 88 hospitals$97 – $130: 100 hospitals$97$130 – $173: 241 hospitals$173 – $231: 89 hospitals$173$231 – $308: 76 hospitals$308 – $411: 88 hospitals$308$411 – $548: 60 hospitals$411median $152price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (885 of 974 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$31$4136
$41$5545
$55$7362
$73$9788
$97$130100
$130$173241
$173$23189
$231$30876
$308$41188
$411$54860

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$152
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $152.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $173 across 29 hospitalsWA$173Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $100 across 13 hospitalsMT$100North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $81 across 16 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $123 across 34 hospitalsIL$123Wisconsin: median $110 across 23 hospitalsWI$110Michigan: median $101 across 22 hospitalsMI$101New York: median $153 across 48 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $198 across 11 hospitalsMA$198Oregon: median $104 across 22 hospitalsOR$104Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $88 across 27 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $82 across 23 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: median $147 across 31 hospitalsOH$147Pennsylvania: median $167 across 59 hospitalsPA$167New Jersey: median $237 across 40 hospitalsNJ$237Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $265 across 92 hospitalsCA$265Utah: median $416 across 24 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $317 across 14 hospitalsCO$317Nebraska: median $89 across 21 hospitalsNE$89Missouri: median $142 across 22 hospitalsMO$142Kentucky: median $94 across 10 hospitalsKY$94West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $168 across 23 hospitalsVA$168Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $98 across 10 hospitalsAZ$98New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $154 across 19 hospitalsKS$154Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $98 across 13 hospitalsTN$98North Carolina: median $144 across 24 hospitalsNC$144South Carolina: median $184 across 22 hospitalsSC$184Oklahoma: median $102 across 27 hospitalsOK$102Louisiana: median $67 across 10 hospitalsLA$67Mississippi: median $67 across 18 hospitalsMS$67Alabama: median $110 across 15 hospitalsAL$110Georgia: median $130 across 34 hospitalsGA$130Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $141 across 73 hospitalsTX$141Florida: median $333 across 26 hospitalsFL$333
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $152. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$416+173%$363 – $466
Florida FL26$333+119%$164 – $1,124
Colorado CO14$317+108%$122 – $548
California CA92$265+75%$146 – $465
New Jersey NJ40$237+56%$143 – $4,627
Massachusetts MA11$198+30%$140 – $319
South Carolina SC22$184+21%$139 – $216
Washington WA29$173+14%$123 – $237
Virginia VA23$168+10%$157 – $244
Pennsylvania PA59$167+10%$110 – $373
Kansas KS19$154+2%$55 – $416
New York NY48$1530%$68 – $321
Ohio OH31$147−3%$83 – $176
North Carolina NC24$144−5%$70 – $165
Missouri MO22$142−7%$64 – $243
Texas TX73$141−7%$75 – $170
Georgia GA34$130−15%$55 – $382
Illinois IL34$123−19%$72 – $273
Wisconsin WI23$110−28%$93 – $168
Alabama AL15$110−28%$59 – $155
Oregon OR22$104−32%$62 – $346
Oklahoma OK27$102−33%$31 – $283
Michigan MI22$101−34%$66 – $172
Montana MT13$100−34%$64 – $216
Tennessee TN13$98−36%$43 – $215
Arizona AZ10$98−36%$34 – $111
Kentucky KY10$94−38%$35 – $131
Nebraska NE21$89−41%$83 – $159
Iowa IA27$88−42%$66 – $172
Indiana IN23$82−46%$51 – $164
Minnesota MN16$81−46%$77 – $125
Mississippi MS18$67−56%$38 – $100
Louisiana LA10$67−56%$42 – $88
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $152.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care749$157$83 – $324
Children’s23$110$66 – $290
Critical access201$125$65 – $244
Ownership
For-profit100$147$70 – $382
Government166$144$65 – $237
Non-profit707$153$81 – $317
System affiliation
Part of a system788$155$82 – $321
Independent186$129$61 – $238

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$259
Median cash price$152
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

730 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $164 and the average of the middle 60% is $172; most fall between $82 and $321.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 730 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
$54$94$164$278$437

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $437).

Of the 780 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 730 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

974 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,055 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted974
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,055

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 Strapping of Hip.

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, “Taping or strapping of the hip (CPT 29520) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29520-taping-or-strapping-of-the-hip