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Removal or splitting of a shoulder, hip or body jacket cast

CPT 29710the billing code this page is about

Covers taking off or cutting open a large cast such as a shoulder or hip spica, Minerva cast, or Risser body jacket.

Hospitals typically charge $332 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 507 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $383. Most fall between $200 and $740 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
507
States
49
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 507 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
$133$232$332$596$1,054

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $1,054).

How the prices are spread

$104 – $136: 37 hospitals$104$136 – $178: 22 hospitals$178 – $233: 44 hospitals$178$233 – $305: 68 hospitals$305 – $399: 102 hospitals$305$399 – $523: 64 hospitals$523 – $685: 27 hospitals$523$685 – $897: 62 hospitals$897 – $1,176: 11 hospitals$897$1,176 – $1,540: 20 hospitals$1,176median $332price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (457 of 507 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$104$13637
$136$17822
$178$23344
$233$30568
$305$399102
$399$52364
$523$68527
$685$89762
$897$1,17611
$1,176$1,54020

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$286
Median cash price$332
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $332.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $436 across 17 hospitalsWA$436Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $207 across 15 hospitalsIL$207Wisconsin: median $331 across 20 hospitalsWI$331Michigan: median $287 across 14 hospitalsMI$287New York: median $314 across 35 hospitalsNY$314Massachusetts: median $416 across 12 hospitalsMA$416Oregon: median $565 across 17 hospitalsOR$565Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $297 across 19 hospitalsIA$297Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $305 across 14 hospitalsOH$305Pennsylvania: median $412 across 16 hospitalsPA$412New Jersey: median $654 across 31 hospitalsNJ$654Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $577 across 67 hospitalsCA$577Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $432 across 10 hospitalsVA$432Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $135 across 12 hospitalsOK$135Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $315 across 46 hospitalsTX$315Florida: median $735 across 31 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $332. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL31$735+121%$257 – $837
New Jersey NJ31$654+97%$294 – $5,110
California CA67$577+74%$432 – $773
Oregon OR17$565+70%$232 – $715
Washington WA17$436+31%$232 – $568
Virginia VA10$432+30%$237 – $432
Massachusetts MA12$416+25%$345 – $883
Pennsylvania PA16$412+24%$330 – $572
Wisconsin WI20$3310%$331 – $400
Texas TX46$315−5%$315 – $399
New York NY35$314−5%$243 – $364
Ohio OH14$305−8%$180 – $544
Iowa IA19$297−11%$268 – $297
Michigan MI14$287−13%$166 – $385
Illinois IL15$207−38%$130 – $297
Oklahoma OK12$135−59%$135 – $135
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $332.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care393$349$221 – $735
Children’s37$460$216 – $1,349
Critical access76$278$176 – $468
Ownership
For-profit46$399$135 – $743
Government87$257$151 – $561
Non-profit373$351$232 – $743
System affiliation
Part of a system415$357$227 – $766
Independent92$259$160 – $559

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$600
Median cash price$332
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

367 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $338 and the average of the middle 60% is $392; most fall between $202 and $735.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 367 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
$130$232$338$572$812

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($130 vs $812).

Of the 400 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 367 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

507 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 555 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted507
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code555

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 Rmvl/Bivalv Sho/Hip Spica Minerva/Risser Jacket.

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 shoulder, hip or body jacket cast (CPT 29710) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29710-removal-or-splitting-of-a-shoulder-hip-or-body-jacket-cast