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

Taping or strapping of the toes

CPT 29550the billing code this page is about

Application of tape or similar strapping to one or more toes for support.

Hospitals typically charge $108 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,774 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $121. Most fall between $49 and $244 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,774
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 1,774 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
$30$56$108$213$375

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $375).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $27: 67 hospitals$19$27 – $37: 102 hospitals$37 – $52: 143 hospitals$37$52 – $73: 230 hospitals$73 – $102: 209 hospitals$73$102 – $142: 214 hospitals$142 – $198: 241 hospitals$142$198 – $276: 166 hospitals$276 – $384: 149 hospitals$276$384 – $536: 77 hospitals$384median $108price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,598 of 1,774 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2767
$27$37102
$37$52143
$52$73230
$73$102209
$102$142214
$142$198241
$198$276166
$276$384149
$384$53677

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$108
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.79×

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 $108.

Alaska: median $124 across 13 hospitalsAK$124Maine: median $47 across 12 hospitalsME$47Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $44 across 12 hospitalsNH$44Washington: median $118 across 55 hospitalsWA$118Idaho: median $146 across 14 hospitalsID$146Montana: median $48 across 16 hospitalsMT$48North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $66 across 39 hospitalsMN$66Illinois: median $96 across 63 hospitalsIL$96Wisconsin: median $55 across 42 hospitalsWI$55Michigan: median $81 across 57 hospitalsMI$81New York: median $141 across 80 hospitalsNY$141Massachusetts: median $169 across 38 hospitalsMA$169Oregon: median $36 across 35 hospitalsOR$36Nevada: median $64 across 11 hospitalsNV$64Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $68 across 14 hospitalsSD$68Iowa: median $75 across 41 hospitalsIA$75Indiana: median $86 across 48 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $131 across 62 hospitalsOH$131Pennsylvania: median $100 across 88 hospitalsPA$100New Jersey: median $242 across 51 hospitalsNJ$242Connecticut: median $122 across 11 hospitalsCT$122Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $213 across 109 hospitalsCA$213Utah: median $416 across 24 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $157 across 39 hospitalsCO$157Nebraska: median $74 across 36 hospitalsNE$74Missouri: median $66 across 40 hospitalsMO$66Kentucky: median $82 across 29 hospitalsKY$82West Virginia: median $76 across 25 hospitalsWV$76Virginia: median $125 across 42 hospitalsVA$125Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $91 across 12 hospitalsAZ$91New Mexico: median $100 across 19 hospitalsNM$100Kansas: median $134 across 32 hospitalsKS$134Arkansas: median $83 across 14 hospitalsAR$83Tennessee: median $52 across 29 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $129 across 33 hospitalsNC$129South Carolina: median $130 across 23 hospitalsSC$130Oklahoma: median $99 across 43 hospitalsOK$99Louisiana: median $59 across 29 hospitalsLA$59Mississippi: median $50 across 36 hospitalsMS$50Alabama: median $72 across 21 hospitalsAL$72Georgia: median $183 across 65 hospitalsGA$183Hawaii: median $186 across 15 hospitalsHI$186Texas: median $195 across 130 hospitalsTX$195Florida: median $143 across 89 hospitalsFL$143
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $108. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$416+285%$363 – $466
New Jersey NJ51$242+124%$66 – $3,986
California CA109$213+97%$93 – $339
Texas TX130$195+81%$78 – $299
Hawaii HI15$186+72%$142 – $278
Georgia GA65$183+70%$56 – $291
Massachusetts MA38$169+56%$98 – $254
Colorado CO39$157+45%$64 – $266
Idaho ID14$146+36%$47 – $297
Florida FL89$143+33%$78 – $549
New York NY80$141+31%$56 – $249
Kansas KS32$134+24%$46 – $350
Ohio OH62$131+22%$82 – $361
South Carolina SC23$130+21%$71 – $230
North Carolina NC33$129+19%$53 – $165
Virginia VA42$125+16%$52 – $376
Alaska AK13$124+15%$61 – $140
Connecticut CT11$122+13%$104 – $205
Washington WA55$118+10%$77 – $204
Pennsylvania PA88$100−7%$55 – $205
New Mexico NM19$100−7%$42 – $221
Oklahoma OK43$99−8%$52 – $213
Illinois IL63$96−11%$53 – $209
Arizona AZ12$91−16%$20 – $817
Indiana IN48$86−21%$44 – $130
Arkansas AR14$83−23%$36 – $147
Kentucky KY29$82−24%$44 – $112
Michigan MI57$81−25%$17 – $173
West Virginia WV25$76−30%$12 – $168
Iowa IA41$75−30%$35 – $170
Nebraska NE36$74−31%$37 – $106
Alabama AL21$72−33%$41 – $110
South Dakota SD14$68−37%$53 – $141
Minnesota MN39$66−38%$27 – $96
Missouri MO40$66−39%$50 – $119
Nevada NV11$64−41%$27 – $170
Louisiana LA29$59−45%$30 – $105
Wisconsin WI42$55−49%$14 – $158
Tennessee TN29$52−52%$31 – $109
Mississippi MS36$50−54%$37 – $73
Montana MT16$48−56%$30 – $79
Maine ME12$47−56%$41 – $120
New Hampshire NH12$44−59%$15 – $83
Oregon OR35$36−67%$25 – $108
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $108.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,273$127$56 – $276
Children’s40$214$67 – $371
Critical access457$69$32 – $166
Ownership
For-profit174$165$65 – $353
Government354$89$43 – $165
Non-profit1,242$107$50 – $254
System affiliation
Part of a system1,417$118$52 – $266
Independent357$85$38 – $178

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$197
Median cash price$108
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

1,314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $130 and the average of the middle 60% is $136; most fall between $53 and $266.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,314 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
$33$63$130$224$376

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $376).

Of the 1,406 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,314 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,774 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,919 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,774
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,919

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 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, “Taping or strapping of the toes (CPT 29550) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29550-taping-or-strapping-of-the-toes