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

Taping or strapping of the ankle or foot

CPT 29540the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $159 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,073 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $169. Most fall between $65 and $330 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,073
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,073 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
$44$75$159$290$516

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $516).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $45: 127 hospitals$33$45 – $61: 151 hospitals$61 – $83: 202 hospitals$61$83 – $112: 203 hospitals$112 – $153: 206 hospitals$112$153 – $207: 306 hospitals$207 – $281: 221 hospitals$207$281 – $382: 241 hospitals$382 – $518: 109 hospitals$382$518 – $704: 103 hospitals$518median $159price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,869 of 2,073 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$45127
$45$61151
$61$83202
$83$112203
$112$153206
$153$207306
$207$281221
$281$382241
$382$518109
$518$704103

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$159
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $159.

Alaska: median $212 across 15 hospitalsAK$212Maine: median $133 across 19 hospitalsME$133Vermont: median $77 across 11 hospitalsVT$77New Hampshire: median $63 across 13 hospitalsNH$63Washington: median $167 across 57 hospitalsWA$167Idaho: median $213 across 17 hospitalsID$213Montana: median $65 across 21 hospitalsMT$65North Dakota: median $124 across 16 hospitalsND$124Minnesota: median $81 across 50 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $151 across 88 hospitalsIL$151Wisconsin: median $86 across 64 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $51 across 46 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $187 across 87 hospitalsNY$187Massachusetts: median $252 across 39 hospitalsMA$252Oregon: median $93 across 35 hospitalsOR$93Nevada: median $176 across 14 hospitalsNV$176Wyoming: median $81 across 11 hospitalsWY$81South Dakota: median $215 across 12 hospitalsSD$215Iowa: median $93 across 57 hospitalsIA$93Indiana: median $94 across 64 hospitalsIN$94Ohio: median $177 across 103 hospitalsOH$177Pennsylvania: median $212 across 84 hospitalsPA$212New Jersey: median $386 across 54 hospitalsNJ$386Connecticut: median $261 across 14 hospitalsCT$261Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $310 across 129 hospitalsCA$310Utah: median $213 across 26 hospitalsUT$213Colorado: median $133 across 34 hospitalsCO$133Nebraska: median $93 across 46 hospitalsNE$93Missouri: median $135 across 48 hospitalsMO$135Kentucky: median $112 across 36 hospitalsKY$112West Virginia: median $159 across 28 hospitalsWV$159Virginia: median $196 across 50 hospitalsVA$196Maryland: 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 $110 across 18 hospitalsAZ$110New Mexico: median $195 across 15 hospitalsNM$195Kansas: median $153 across 49 hospitalsKS$153Arkansas: median $85 across 14 hospitalsAR$85Tennessee: median $52 across 33 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $179 across 50 hospitalsNC$179South Carolina: median $204 across 25 hospitalsSC$204Oklahoma: median $125 across 54 hospitalsOK$125Louisiana: median $76 across 32 hospitalsLA$76Mississippi: median $65 across 40 hospitalsMS$65Alabama: median $110 across 20 hospitalsAL$110Georgia: median $178 across 56 hospitalsGA$178Hawaii: median $377 across 14 hospitalsHI$377Texas: median $205 across 155 hospitalsTX$205Florida: median $275 across 96 hospitalsFL$275
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $159. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ54$386+143%$175 – $3,986
Hawaii HI14$377+137%$185 – $651
California CA129$310+95%$168 – $689
Florida FL96$275+73%$145 – $559
Connecticut CT14$261+64%$90 – $574
Massachusetts MA39$252+58%$125 – $472
South Dakota SD12$215+35%$162 – $364
Idaho ID17$213+34%$64 – $442
Utah UT26$213+34%$213 – $283
Alaska AK15$212+33%$67 – $284
Pennsylvania PA84$212+33%$132 – $521
Texas TX155$205+29%$75 – $290
South Carolina SC25$204+28%$75 – $323
Virginia VA50$196+23%$73 – $296
New Mexico NM15$195+22%$70 – $332
New York NY87$187+17%$56 – $431
North Carolina NC50$179+12%$75 – $208
Georgia GA56$178+12%$70 – $392
Ohio OH103$177+12%$102 – $472
Nevada NV14$176+11%$43 – $298
Washington WA57$167+5%$72 – $317
West Virginia WV28$1590%$18 – $346
Kansas KS49$153−4%$53 – $358
Illinois IL88$151−5%$79 – $429
Missouri MO48$135−15%$60 – $202
Maine ME19$133−16%$63 – $226
Colorado CO34$133−17%$59 – $297
Oklahoma OK54$125−22%$54 – $225
North Dakota ND16$124−22%$81 – $288
Kentucky KY36$112−30%$74 – $379
Arizona AZ18$110−31%$33 – $199
Alabama AL20$110−31%$45 – $153
Indiana IN64$94−41%$55 – $184
Iowa IA57$93−41%$49 – $185
Nebraska NE46$93−41%$63 – $150
Oregon OR35$93−42%$50 – $270
Wisconsin WI64$86−46%$39 – $124
Arkansas AR14$85−46%$69 – $202
Minnesota MN50$81−49%$47 – $123
Wyoming WY11$81−49%$53 – $167
Vermont VT11$77−52%$50 – $246
Louisiana LA32$76−52%$53 – $193
Mississippi MS40$65−59%$47 – $116
Montana MT21$65−59%$39 – $111
New Hampshire NH13$63−61%$24 – $111
Tennessee TN33$52−68%$43 – $200
Michigan MI46$51−68%$21 – $157
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 $159.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,434$187$80 – $370
Children’s42$168$88 – $716
Critical access591$94$48 – $222
Ownership
For-profit198$192$78 – $460
Government421$116$54 – $261
Non-profit1,448$168$66 – $342
System affiliation
Part of a system1,643$176$67 – $349
Independent430$119$52 – $233

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$284
Median cash price$159
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

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

1,531 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $178 and the average of the middle 60% is $183; most fall between $75 and $342.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,531 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$87$178$297$519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $519).

Of the 1,649 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,531 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 74 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,073 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,244 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,073
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,244

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 Ankle &/Foot.

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 ankle or foot (CPT 29540) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29540-taping-or-strapping-of-the-ankle-or-foot