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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Removal or splitting of a hand, foot or body cast

CPT 29700the billing code this page is about

Covers taking off or cutting open a short cast such as a gauntlet, boot or body cast in one visit.

Hospitals typically charge $244 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,615 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $261. Most fall between $97 and $499 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,615
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,615 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
$64$115$244$426$730

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $730).

How the prices are spread

$47 – $63: 78 hospitals$47$63 – $85: 111 hospitals$85 – $115: 141 hospitals$85$115 – $156: 147 hospitals$156 – $211: 163 hospitals$156$211 – $285: 184 hospitals$285 – $385: 220 hospitals$285$385 – $521: 206 hospitals$521 – $704: 119 hospitals$521$704 – $951: 88 hospitals$704median $244price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,457 of 1,615 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$47$6378
$63$85111
$85$115141
$115$156147
$156$211163
$211$285184
$285$385220
$385$521206
$521$704119
$704$95188

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$244
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

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 $244.

Alaska: median $275 across 11 hospitalsAK$275Maine: median $250 across 14 hospitalsME$250Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $244 across 61 hospitalsWA$244Idaho: median $611 across 13 hospitalsID$611Montana: median $112 across 15 hospitalsMT$112North Dakota: median $205 across 15 hospitalsND$205Minnesota: median $128 across 44 hospitalsMN$128Illinois: median $225 across 64 hospitalsIL$225Wisconsin: median $157 across 57 hospitalsWI$157Michigan: median $136 across 56 hospitalsMI$136New York: median $314 across 74 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: median $407 across 36 hospitalsMA$407Oregon: median $179 across 30 hospitalsOR$179Nevada: median $281 across 11 hospitalsNV$281Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $330 across 12 hospitalsSD$330Iowa: median $146 across 53 hospitalsIA$146Indiana: median $215 across 22 hospitalsIN$215Ohio: median $281 across 46 hospitalsOH$281Pennsylvania: median $320 across 82 hospitalsPA$320New Jersey: median $358 across 43 hospitalsNJ$358Connecticut: median $245 across 12 hospitalsCT$245Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $499 across 121 hospitalsCA$499Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $235 across 35 hospitalsCO$235Nebraska: median $133 across 34 hospitalsNE$133Missouri: median $195 across 31 hospitalsMO$195Kentucky: median $112 across 21 hospitalsKY$112West Virginia: median $322 across 31 hospitalsWV$322Virginia: median $237 across 40 hospitalsVA$237Maryland: 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 $91 across 18 hospitalsAZ$91New Mexico: median $189 across 16 hospitalsNM$189Kansas: median $111 across 41 hospitalsKS$111Arkansas: median $96 across 12 hospitalsAR$96Tennessee: median $69 across 28 hospitalsTN$69North Carolina: median $217 across 31 hospitalsNC$217South Carolina: median $393 across 31 hospitalsSC$393Oklahoma: median $120 across 31 hospitalsOK$120Louisiana: median $115 across 22 hospitalsLA$115Mississippi: median $77 across 28 hospitalsMS$77Alabama: median $180 across 17 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $452 across 53 hospitalsGA$452Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $351 across 103 hospitalsTX$351Florida: median $558 across 51 hospitalsFL$558
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $244. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$611+151%$130 – $743
Florida FL51$558+129%$244 – $2,126
California CA121$499+105%$276 – $885
Georgia GA53$452+85%$270 – $549
Massachusetts MA36$407+67%$164 – $733
South Carolina SC31$393+61%$191 – $450
New Jersey NJ43$358+47%$294 – $4,627
Texas TX103$351+44%$194 – $413
South Dakota SD12$330+35%$192 – $382
West Virginia WV31$322+32%$35 – $428
Pennsylvania PA82$320+31%$94 – $471
New York NY74$314+29%$113 – $627
Nevada NV11$281+15%$156 – $529
Ohio OH46$281+15%$101 – $355
Alaska AK11$275+13%$156 – $389
Maine ME14$250+2%$90 – $392
Connecticut CT12$2450%$82 – $454
Washington WA61$2440%$122 – $434
Virginia VA40$237−3%$119 – $521
Colorado CO35$235−3%$128 – $425
Illinois IL64$225−8%$84 – $476
North Carolina NC31$217−11%$186 – $349
Indiana IN22$215−12%$67 – $260
North Dakota ND15$205−16%$77 – $368
Missouri MO31$195−20%$97 – $333
New Mexico NM16$189−23%$139 – $450
Alabama AL17$180−26%$105 – $330
Oregon OR30$179−27%$122 – $577
Wisconsin WI57$157−36%$136 – $364
Iowa IA53$146−40%$78 – $339
Michigan MI56$136−44%$42 – $385
Nebraska NE34$133−46%$103 – $249
Minnesota MN44$128−48%$71 – $242
Oklahoma OK31$120−51%$53 – $267
Louisiana LA22$115−53%$76 – $145
Montana MT15$112−54%$63 – $191
Kentucky KY21$112−54%$46 – $188
Kansas KS41$111−54%$71 – $263
Arkansas AR12$96−60%$57 – $150
Arizona AZ18$91−63%$91 – $343
Mississippi MS28$77−69%$67 – $150
Tennessee TN28$69−72%$55 – $187
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not 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 $244.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,169$302$119 – $523
Children’s39$259$98 – $577
Critical access405$134$70 – $310
Ownership
For-profit150$304$98 – $638
Government308$186$93 – $390
Non-profit1,155$260$98 – $499
System affiliation
Part of a system1,288$263$100 – $512
Independent327$175$89 – $376

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$405
Median cash price$244
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

1,168 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $273 and the average of the middle 60% is $290; most fall between $116 and $523.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,168 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
$72$132$273$469$747

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($72 vs $747).

Of the 1,248 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,168 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 50 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,615 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,733 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,615
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,733

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Remv/Revisn Boot/Body Cast.

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, “Removal or splitting of a hand, foot or body cast (CPT 29700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29700-removal-or-splitting-of-a-hand-foot-or-body-cast