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

Taping or strapping of the knee

CPT 29530the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $157 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,917 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $167. Most fall between $71 and $301 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,917
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 1,917 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
$52$85$157$274$426

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $426).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $47: 76 hospitals$35$47 – $62: 136 hospitals$62 – $83: 158 hospitals$62$83 – $110: 208 hospitals$110 – $147: 218 hospitals$110$147 – $195: 253 hospitals$195 – $259: 262 hospitals$195$259 – $345: 194 hospitals$345 – $458: 149 hospitals$345$458 – $609: 74 hospitals$458median $157price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,728 of 1,917 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4776
$47$62136
$62$83158
$83$110208
$110$147218
$147$195253
$195$259262
$259$345194
$345$458149
$458$60974

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$157
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $157.

Alaska: median $226 across 14 hospitalsAK$226Maine: median $129 across 16 hospitalsME$129Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $203 across 51 hospitalsWA$203Idaho: median $360 across 15 hospitalsID$360Montana: median $114 across 17 hospitalsMT$114North Dakota: median $144 across 10 hospitalsND$144Minnesota: median $66 across 33 hospitalsMN$66Illinois: median $131 across 78 hospitalsIL$131Wisconsin: median $98 across 51 hospitalsWI$98Michigan: median $89 across 40 hospitalsMI$89New York: median $153 across 84 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $244 across 33 hospitalsMA$244Oregon: median $129 across 33 hospitalsOR$129Nevada: median $144 across 13 hospitalsNV$144Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $113 across 44 hospitalsIA$113Indiana: median $102 across 70 hospitalsIN$102Ohio: median $199 across 81 hospitalsOH$199Pennsylvania: median $167 across 79 hospitalsPA$167New Jersey: median $319 across 52 hospitalsNJ$319Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $276 across 134 hospitalsCA$276Utah: median $413 across 29 hospitalsUT$413Colorado: median $123 across 34 hospitalsCO$123Nebraska: median $98 across 44 hospitalsNE$98Missouri: median $127 across 46 hospitalsMO$127Kentucky: median $143 across 38 hospitalsKY$143West Virginia: median $169 across 24 hospitalsWV$169Virginia: median $242 across 47 hospitalsVA$242Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $121 across 20 hospitalsAZ$121New Mexico: median $195 across 13 hospitalsNM$195Kansas: median $170 across 43 hospitalsKS$170Arkansas: median $85 across 13 hospitalsAR$85Tennessee: median $57 across 41 hospitalsTN$57North Carolina: median $154 across 48 hospitalsNC$154South Carolina: median $166 across 28 hospitalsSC$166Oklahoma: median $100 across 53 hospitalsOK$100Louisiana: median $89 across 35 hospitalsLA$89Mississippi: median $69 across 39 hospitalsMS$69Alabama: median $96 across 20 hospitalsAL$96Georgia: median $154 across 54 hospitalsGA$154Hawaii: median $239 across 13 hospitalsHI$239Texas: median $197 across 154 hospitalsTX$197Florida: median $298 across 79 hospitalsFL$298
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $157. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT29$413+164%$171 – $442
Idaho ID15$360+130%$60 – $360
New Jersey NJ52$319+103%$143 – $3,986
Florida FL79$298+90%$157 – $694
California CA134$276+76%$160 – $490
Massachusetts MA33$244+56%$125 – $375
Virginia VA47$242+55%$81 – $385
Hawaii HI13$239+53%$32 – $530
Alaska AK14$226+44%$127 – $318
Washington WA51$203+30%$113 – $266
Ohio OH81$199+27%$90 – $361
Texas TX154$197+26%$103 – $292
New Mexico NM13$195+24%$137 – $248
Kansas KS43$170+9%$63 – $368
West Virginia WV24$169+8%$19 – $316
Pennsylvania PA79$167+6%$74 – $294
South Carolina SC28$166+6%$110 – $289
Georgia GA54$154−2%$68 – $344
North Carolina NC48$154−2%$93 – $246
New York NY84$153−3%$89 – $342
North Dakota ND10$144−8%$68 – $227
Nevada NV13$144−8%$83 – $198
Kentucky KY38$143−9%$97 – $379
Illinois IL78$131−16%$78 – $294
Oregon OR33$129−17%$53 – $541
Maine ME16$129−18%$92 – $224
Missouri MO46$127−19%$78 – $202
Colorado CO34$123−21%$73 – $297
Arizona AZ20$121−23%$34 – $217
Montana MT17$114−27%$49 – $212
Iowa IA44$113−28%$56 – $252
Indiana IN70$102−35%$57 – $204
Oklahoma OK53$100−36%$66 – $225
Nebraska NE44$98−37%$60 – $191
Wisconsin WI51$98−37%$55 – $158
Alabama AL20$96−39%$59 – $150
Louisiana LA35$89−43%$53 – $201
Michigan MI40$89−43%$70 – $131
Arkansas AR13$85−46%$35 – $91
Mississippi MS39$69−56%$38 – $129
Minnesota MN33$66−58%$44 – $134
Tennessee TN41$57−64%$45 – $159
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $157.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,357$170$83 – $341
Children’s45$290$75 – $581
Critical access512$112$59 – $227
Ownership
For-profit206$189$95 – $407
Government366$141$69 – $251
Non-profit1,342$160$69 – $310
System affiliation
Part of a system1,538$166$74 – $326
Independent379$125$59 – $239

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$280
Median cash price$157
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

1,430 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $180 and the average of the middle 60% is $184; most fall between $78 and $321.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,430 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
$55$95$180$290$416

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $416).

Of the 1,548 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,430 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,917 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,077 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,917
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,077

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 Strapping Knee.

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 knee (CPT 29530) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29530-taping-or-strapping-of-the-knee