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

Repair of a body cast, spica cast or body jacket

CPT 29720the billing code this page is about

Covers repairing a damaged hip or shoulder spica cast, body cast or body jacket rather than replacing it.

Hospitals typically charge $203 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 425 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $219. Most fall between $122 and $410 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
425
States
46
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 425 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$140$203$328$683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($72 vs $683).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 30 hospitals$58$76 – $101: 19 hospitals$101 – $134: 27 hospitals$101$134 – $177: 63 hospitals$177 – $234: 104 hospitals$177$234 – $310: 31 hospitals$310 – $410: 44 hospitals$310$410 – $543: 29 hospitals$543 – $718: 28 hospitals$543$718 – $951: 8 hospitals$718median $203price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (383 of 425 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$7630
$76$10119
$101$13427
$134$17763
$177$234104
$234$31031
$310$41044
$410$54329
$543$71828
$718$9518

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$166
Median cash price$203
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $203.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $311 across 27 hospitalsWA$311Idaho: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $80 across 11 hospitalsIL$80Wisconsin: median $212 across 10 hospitalsWI$212Michigan: median $158 across 13 hospitalsMI$158New York: median $187 across 27 hospitalsNY$187Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $343 across 15 hospitalsOR$343Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $203 across 16 hospitalsIA$203Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $177 across 12 hospitalsOH$177Pennsylvania: median $33 across 17 hospitalsPA$33New Jersey: median $463 across 31 hospitalsNJ$463Connecticut: 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 $328 across 72 hospitalsCA$328Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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 $72 across 12 hospitalsOK$72Louisiana: median $114 across 11 hospitalsLA$114Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $185 across 10 hospitalsGA$185Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $214 across 30 hospitalsTX$214Florida: median $150 across 10 hospitalsFL$150
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $203. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$463+128%$175 – $5,110
Oregon OR15$343+69%$164 – $434
California CA72$328+62%$260 – $683
Washington WA27$311+53%$177 – $388
Texas TX30$214+5%$194 – $300
Wisconsin WI10$212+4%$99 – $212
Iowa IA16$2030%$203 – $203
New York NY27$187−8%$166 – $211
Georgia GA10$185−9%$185 – $185
Ohio OH12$177−13%$133 – $300
Michigan MI13$158−22%$86 – $223
Florida FL10$150−26%$100 – $247
Louisiana LA11$114−44%$72 – $143
Illinois IL11$80−61%$62 – $177
Oklahoma OK12$72−65%$72 – $72
Pennsylvania PA17$33−84%$27 – $213
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $203.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care337$203$127 – $435
Children’s27$189$103 – $251
Critical access61$185$112 – $300
Ownership
For-profit38$185$69 – $469
Government65$185$137 – $300
Non-profit322$210$127 – $434
System affiliation
Part of a system333$207$132 – $434
Independent92$167$112 – $355

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$364
Median cash price$203
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

305 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $211 and the average of the middle 60% is $236; most fall between $118 and $434.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 305 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$145$211$356$683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($72 vs $683).

Of the 336 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 305 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

425 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 468 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted425
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code468

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 PR Repair Spica/Body/Jacket 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, “Repair of a body cast, spica cast or body jacket (CPT 29720) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-29720-repair-of-a-body-cast-spica-cast-or-body-jacket