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

Removal or splitting of a full arm or full leg cast

CPT 29705the billing code this page is about

Covers taking off or cutting open a cast that covers the whole arm or whole leg.

Hospitals typically charge $256 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,663 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $266. Most fall between $110 and $497 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,663
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 1,663 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
$71$129$256$436$794

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $794).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $74: 94 hospitals$55$74 – $99: 109 hospitals$99 – $133: 144 hospitals$99$133 – $178: 164 hospitals$178 – $240: 217 hospitals$178$240 – $322: 201 hospitals$322 – $432: 230 hospitals$322$432 – $579: 161 hospitals$579 – $778: 78 hospitals$579$778 – $1,044: 100 hospitals$778median $256price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,498 of 1,663 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$7494
$74$99109
$99$133144
$133$178164
$178$240217
$240$322201
$322$432230
$432$579161
$579$77878
$778$1,044100

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$256
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $256.

Alaska: median $231 across 12 hospitalsAK$231Maine: median $115 across 12 hospitalsME$115Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $95 across 11 hospitalsNH$95Washington: median $298 across 53 hospitalsWA$298Idaho: median $146 across 12 hospitalsID$146Montana: median $115 across 12 hospitalsMT$115North Dakota: median $191 across 18 hospitalsND$191Minnesota: median $213 across 50 hospitalsMN$213Illinois: median $237 across 72 hospitalsIL$237Wisconsin: median $204 across 67 hospitalsWI$204Michigan: median $142 across 54 hospitalsMI$142New York: median $314 across 70 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: median $417 across 37 hospitalsMA$417Oregon: median $171 across 35 hospitalsOR$171Nevada: median $304 across 11 hospitalsNV$304Wyoming: 6 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 $146 across 43 hospitalsIA$146Indiana: median $125 across 32 hospitalsIN$125Ohio: median $384 across 70 hospitalsOH$384Pennsylvania: median $371 across 74 hospitalsPA$371New Jersey: median $473 across 46 hospitalsNJ$473Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $499 across 117 hospitalsCA$499Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $191 across 28 hospitalsCO$191Nebraska: median $146 across 29 hospitalsNE$146Missouri: median $281 across 42 hospitalsMO$281Kentucky: median $127 across 19 hospitalsKY$127West Virginia: median $134 across 26 hospitalsWV$134Virginia: median $213 across 29 hospitalsVA$213Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $204 across 15 hospitalsNM$204Kansas: median $198 across 44 hospitalsKS$198Arkansas: median $112 across 15 hospitalsAR$112Tennessee: median $57 across 28 hospitalsTN$57North Carolina: median $155 across 30 hospitalsNC$155South Carolina: median $385 across 23 hospitalsSC$385Oklahoma: median $150 across 38 hospitalsOK$150Louisiana: median $127 across 27 hospitalsLA$127Mississippi: median $102 across 35 hospitalsMS$102Alabama: median $209 across 20 hospitalsAL$209Georgia: median $399 across 53 hospitalsGA$399Hawaii: median $602 across 13 hospitalsHI$602Texas: median $272 across 116 hospitalsTX$272Florida: median $436 across 72 hospitalsFL$436
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $256. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI13$602+135%$77 – $1,047
California CA117$499+95%$276 – $1,008
New Jersey NJ46$473+85%$294 – $4,350
Florida FL72$436+70%$226 – $931
Massachusetts MA37$417+63%$216 – $825
Georgia GA53$399+56%$147 – $498
South Carolina SC23$385+51%$207 – $385
Ohio OH70$384+50%$209 – $914
Pennsylvania PA74$371+45%$112 – $546
New York NY70$314+23%$122 – $612
Nevada NV11$304+19%$211 – $445
Washington WA53$298+16%$137 – $474
Missouri MO42$281+10%$106 – $415
Texas TX116$272+6%$222 – $389
Illinois IL72$237−7%$111 – $405
Alaska AK12$231−10%$177 – $425
Minnesota MN50$213−17%$102 – $236
Virginia VA29$213−17%$29 – $253
Alabama AL20$209−18%$72 – $392
New Mexico NM15$204−20%$172 – $304
Wisconsin WI67$204−20%$158 – $268
Kansas KS44$198−22%$100 – $324
Colorado CO28$191−25%$129 – $425
North Dakota ND18$191−25%$145 – $392
Oregon OR35$171−33%$98 – $244
North Carolina NC30$155−39%$148 – $399
Oklahoma OK38$150−41%$73 – $515
Idaho ID12$146−43%$118 – $743
Nebraska NE29$146−43%$113 – $211
Iowa IA43$146−43%$98 – $198
Michigan MI54$142−44%$58 – $509
West Virginia WV26$134−48%$48 – $384
Louisiana LA27$127−50%$82 – $345
Kentucky KY19$127−50%$67 – $329
Indiana IN32$125−51%$70 – $260
Montana MT12$115−55%$71 – $208
Maine ME12$115−55%$88 – $303
Arkansas AR15$112−56%$65 – $207
Mississippi MS35$102−60%$75 – $204
New Hampshire NH11$95−63%$48 – $162
Tennessee TN28$57−78%$29 – $160
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not 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 $256.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,184$294$122 – $554
Children’s59$348$111 – $1,131
Critical access414$167$90 – $280
Ownership
For-profit138$324$142 – $807
Government316$176$95 – $368
Non-profit1,203$263$113 – $499
System affiliation
Part of a system1,330$267$115 – $512
Independent333$181$92 – $384

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$405
Median cash price$256
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,192 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $271 and the average of the middle 60% is $294; most fall between $127 and $540.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,192 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
$79$150$271$458$848

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $848).

Of the 1,271 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,192 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 44 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,663 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,779 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,663
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded51
Hospitals that filed this code1,779

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 Removal/Bivalving Full Arm/Full Leg 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 full arm or full leg cast (CPT 29705) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29705-removal-or-splitting-of-a-full-arm-or-full-leg-cast