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

Mechanical traction therapy

CPT 97012the billing code this page is about

Use of a traction machine to apply a gentle pulling force to the spine or a limb during a therapy visit; billed once per visit no matter how many areas are treated.

Hospitals typically charge $74 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,067 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $77. Most fall between $40 and $126 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,067
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,067 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
$27$47$74$113$182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $182).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 126 hospitals$19$25 – $32: 140 hospitals$32 – $42: 237 hospitals$32$42 – $54: 315 hospitals$54 – $70: 466 hospitals$54$70 – $91: 501 hospitals$91 – $118: 411 hospitals$91$118 – $152: 266 hospitals$152 – $197: 189 hospitals$152$197 – $256: 111 hospitals$197median $74price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,762 of 3,067 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$25126
$25$32140
$32$42237
$42$54315
$54$70466
$70$91501
$91$118411
$118$152266
$152$197189
$197$256111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $74.

Alaska: median $118 across 15 hospitalsAK$118Maine: median $59 across 26 hospitalsME$59Vermont: median $97 across 14 hospitalsVT$97New Hampshire: median $54 across 22 hospitalsNH$54Washington: median $67 across 60 hospitalsWA$67Idaho: median $51 across 23 hospitalsID$51Montana: median $52 across 32 hospitalsMT$52North Dakota: median $62 across 30 hospitalsND$62Minnesota: median $77 across 98 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $102 across 130 hospitalsIL$102Wisconsin: median $67 across 101 hospitalsWI$67Michigan: median $89 across 87 hospitalsMI$89New York: median $54 across 98 hospitalsNY$54Massachusetts: median $81 across 46 hospitalsMA$81Oregon: median $63 across 52 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $68 across 19 hospitalsNV$68Wyoming: median $106 across 13 hospitalsWY$106South Dakota: median $113 across 35 hospitalsSD$113Iowa: median $72 across 85 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $73 across 92 hospitalsIN$73Ohio: median $81 across 141 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $69 across 100 hospitalsPA$69New Jersey: median $19 across 42 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $86 across 19 hospitalsCT$86Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $89 across 162 hospitalsCA$89Utah: median $73 across 33 hospitalsUT$73Colorado: median $54 across 69 hospitalsCO$54Nebraska: median $77 across 74 hospitalsNE$77Missouri: median $81 across 76 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $83 across 63 hospitalsKY$83West Virginia: median $60 across 31 hospitalsWV$60Virginia: median $75 across 67 hospitalsVA$75Maryland: median $46 across 34 hospitalsMD$46Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $80 across 44 hospitalsAZ$80New Mexico: median $66 across 24 hospitalsNM$66Kansas: median $58 across 89 hospitalsKS$58Arkansas: median $39 across 33 hospitalsAR$39Tennessee: median $43 across 74 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $78 across 90 hospitalsNC$78South Carolina: median $68 across 50 hospitalsSC$68Oklahoma: median $54 across 57 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $32 across 46 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: median $40 across 53 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $60 across 36 hospitalsAL$60Georgia: median $67 across 101 hospitalsGA$67Hawaii: median $83 across 12 hospitalsHI$83Texas: median $103 across 208 hospitalsTX$103Florida: median $139 across 148 hospitalsFL$139
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $74. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL148$139+88%$47 – $330
Alaska AK15$118+60%$63 – $171
South Dakota SD35$113+54%$77 – $166
Wyoming WY13$106+44%$41 – $111
Texas TX208$103+39%$39 – $183
Illinois IL130$102+38%$60 – $172
Vermont VT14$97+31%$64 – $160
California CA162$89+21%$60 – $176
Michigan MI87$89+20%$52 – $122
Connecticut CT19$86+17%$83 – $165
Hawaii HI12$83+13%$83 – $92
Kentucky KY63$83+13%$52 – $150
Massachusetts MA46$81+10%$65 – $123
Missouri MO76$81+10%$42 – $102
Ohio OH141$81+9%$60 – $126
Arizona AZ44$80+9%$18 – $290
North Carolina NC90$78+6%$47 – $119
Minnesota MN98$77+5%$53 – $112
Nebraska NE74$77+4%$54 – $94
Virginia VA67$75+2%$48 – $118
Indiana IN92$73−1%$32 – $109
Utah UT33$73−1%$65 – $90
Iowa IA85$72−2%$50 – $99
Pennsylvania PA100$69−7%$29 – $140
South Carolina SC50$68−7%$58 – $190
Nevada NV19$68−8%$48 – $160
Wisconsin WI101$67−9%$53 – $103
Georgia GA101$67−9%$41 – $153
Washington WA60$67−9%$35 – $88
New Mexico NM24$66−11%$51 – $107
Oregon OR52$63−15%$43 – $94
North Dakota ND30$62−17%$52 – $79
Alabama AL36$60−19%$32 – $125
West Virginia WV31$60−19%$49 – $118
Maine ME26$59−20%$33 – $114
Kansas KS89$58−21%$42 – $86
New York NY98$54−26%$24 – $127
Colorado CO69$54−27%$36 – $96
New Hampshire NH22$54−27%$39 – $100
Oklahoma OK57$54−27%$36 – $94
Montana MT32$52−30%$38 – $90
Idaho ID23$51−31%$32 – $71
Maryland MD34$46−38%$34 – $65
Tennessee TN74$43−42%$20 – $98
Mississippi MS53$40−46%$25 – $66
Arkansas AR33$39−47%$27 – $73
Louisiana LA46$32−57%$20 – $66
New Jersey NJ42$19−75%$17 – $98
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $74.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,131$74$38 – $136
Children’s35$88$60 – $155
Critical access892$73$44 – $111
Ownership
For-profit390$94$43 – $290
Government589$70$39 – $111
Non-profit2,079$73$40 – $122
System affiliation
Part of a system2,494$76$41 – $128
Independent573$67$35 – $110

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$74
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

2,073 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $76 and the average of the middle 60% is $79; most fall between $42 and $126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,073 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
$29$49$76$115$174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $174).

Of the 2,201 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,073 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,067 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,244 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,067
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,244

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 Modality 1/> Areas Traction Mechanical.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Mechanical traction therapy (CPT 97012) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97012-mechanical-traction-therapy