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

Multi-layer compression wrap below the knee

CPT 29581the billing code this page is about

Application of a layered compression bandage system to one leg from below the knee through the ankle and foot, including the toes when wrapped; billed per leg treated.

Hospitals typically charge $248 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,736 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $259. Most fall between $129 and $460 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,736
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 2,736 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
$80$148$248$408$634

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($80 vs $634).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 108 hospitals$58$76 – $99: 151 hospitals$99 – $130: 162 hospitals$99$130 – $171: 321 hospitals$171 – $225: 377 hospitals$171$225 – $295: 371 hospitals$295 – $388: 369 hospitals$295$388 – $510: 319 hospitals$510 – $669: 178 hospitals$510$669 – $879: 113 hospitals$669median $248price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,469 of 2,736 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$76108
$76$99151
$99$130162
$130$171321
$171$225377
$225$295371
$295$388369
$388$510319
$510$669178
$669$879113

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$248
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.49×

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 $248.

Alaska: median $417 across 13 hospitalsAK$417Maine: median $155 across 22 hospitalsME$155Vermont: median $117 across 11 hospitalsVT$117New Hampshire: median $189 across 20 hospitalsNH$189Washington: median $248 across 60 hospitalsWA$248Idaho: median $234 across 21 hospitalsID$234Montana: median $187 across 20 hospitalsMT$187North Dakota: median $219 across 17 hospitalsND$219Minnesota: median $216 across 87 hospitalsMN$216Illinois: median $230 across 115 hospitalsIL$230Wisconsin: median $249 across 101 hospitalsWI$249Michigan: median $179 across 88 hospitalsMI$179New York: median $357 across 95 hospitalsNY$357Massachusetts: median $306 across 41 hospitalsMA$306Oregon: median $159 across 50 hospitalsOR$159Nevada: median $302 across 16 hospitalsNV$302Wyoming: median $127 across 12 hospitalsWY$127South Dakota: median $189 across 28 hospitalsSD$189Iowa: median $216 across 78 hospitalsIA$216Indiana: median $184 across 81 hospitalsIN$184Ohio: median $394 across 131 hospitalsOH$394Pennsylvania: median $267 across 107 hospitalsPA$267New Jersey: median $211 across 56 hospitalsNJ$211Connecticut: median $306 across 21 hospitalsCT$306Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $303 across 140 hospitalsCA$303Utah: median $256 across 36 hospitalsUT$256Colorado: median $257 across 54 hospitalsCO$257Nebraska: median $188 across 55 hospitalsNE$188Missouri: median $187 across 70 hospitalsMO$187Kentucky: median $310 across 48 hospitalsKY$310West Virginia: median $184 across 35 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $244 across 61 hospitalsVA$244Maryland: median $448 across 25 hospitalsMD$448Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $204 across 33 hospitalsAZ$204New Mexico: median $228 across 22 hospitalsNM$228Kansas: median $204 across 62 hospitalsKS$204Arkansas: median $189 across 24 hospitalsAR$189Tennessee: median $109 across 61 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $251 across 76 hospitalsNC$251South Carolina: median $296 across 43 hospitalsSC$296Oklahoma: median $203 across 57 hospitalsOK$203Louisiana: median $150 across 40 hospitalsLA$150Mississippi: median $131 across 46 hospitalsMS$131Alabama: median $206 across 34 hospitalsAL$206Georgia: median $256 across 92 hospitalsGA$256Hawaii: median $183 across 10 hospitalsHI$183Texas: median $298 across 180 hospitalsTX$298Florida: median $476 across 127 hospitalsFL$476
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $248. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL127$476+92%$262 – $714
Maryland MD25$448+80%$200 – $604
Alaska AK13$417+68%$284 – $501
Ohio OH131$394+59%$231 – $510
New York NY95$357+44%$156 – $655
Kentucky KY48$310+25%$107 – $569
Connecticut CT21$306+23%$140 – $408
Massachusetts MA41$306+23%$220 – $456
California CA140$303+22%$183 – $721
Nevada NV16$302+22%$176 – $629
Texas TX180$298+20%$147 – $491
South Carolina SC43$296+19%$201 – $366
Pennsylvania PA107$267+8%$153 – $523
Colorado CO54$257+4%$106 – $390
Georgia GA92$256+3%$147 – $461
Utah UT36$256+3%$239 – $319
North Carolina NC76$251+1%$98 – $364
Wisconsin WI101$2490%$150 – $351
Washington WA60$2480%$98 – $383
Virginia VA61$244−2%$192 – $343
Idaho ID21$234−6%$118 – $363
Illinois IL115$230−8%$106 – $391
New Mexico NM22$228−8%$159 – $446
North Dakota ND17$219−12%$162 – $303
Iowa IA78$216−13%$101 – $310
Minnesota MN87$216−13%$121 – $251
New Jersey NJ56$211−15%$175 – $3,786
Alabama AL34$206−17%$150 – $451
Kansas KS62$204−18%$90 – $323
Arizona AZ33$204−18%$115 – $506
Oklahoma OK57$203−18%$138 – $318
South Dakota SD28$189−24%$98 – $527
New Hampshire NH20$189−24%$74 – $488
Arkansas AR24$189−24%$66 – $277
Nebraska NE55$188−24%$129 – $285
Missouri MO70$187−25%$114 – $535
Montana MT20$187−25%$110 – $312
Indiana IN81$184−26%$91 – $445
West Virginia WV35$184−26%$81 – $289
Hawaii HI10$183−26%$98 – $323
Michigan MI88$179−28%$105 – $392
Oregon OR50$159−36%$82 – $343
Maine ME22$155−37%$101 – $231
Louisiana LA40$150−39%$97 – $298
Mississippi MS46$131−47%$63 – $227
Wyoming WY12$127−49%$77 – $167
Vermont VT11$117−53%$48 – $182
Tennessee TN61$109−56%$74 – $277
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $248.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,025$264$144 – $493
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access685$200$96 – $337
Ownership
For-profit322$380$162 – $791
Government512$187$98 – $341
Non-profit1,893$251$133 – $450
System affiliation
Part of a system2,251$256$139 – $476
Independent485$188$92 – $364

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$426
Median cash price$248
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,891 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $253 and the average of the middle 60% is $264; most fall between $138 and $451.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,891 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
$89$152$253$399$571

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $571).

Of the 2,025 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,891 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,736 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 2,918 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,736
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here87
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded94
Hospitals that filed this code2,918

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 Appl Mltlayr Compres Leg Below Knee W/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, “Multi-layer compression wrap below the knee (CPT 29581) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29581-multi-layer-compression-wrap-below-the-knee