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Procedure price report · Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation

Fitting and training for a first brace, per 15 minutes

CPT 97760the billing code this page is about

Fitting a brace or support to an arm, leg, or trunk and teaching the patient to use it, at an initial visit; billed for each 15 minutes of face-to-face time.

Hospitals typically charge $100 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,194 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $101. Most fall between $60 and $159 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,194
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,194 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
$45$66$100$140$210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($45 vs $210).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $43: 129 hospitals$35$43 – $53: 183 hospitals$53 – $65: 324 hospitals$53$65 – $80: 343 hospitals$80 – $98: 430 hospitals$80$98 – $120: 482 hospitals$120 – $148: 428 hospitals$120$148 – $182: 261 hospitals$182 – $223: 196 hospitals$182$223 – $274: 103 hospitals$223median $100price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,879 of 3,194 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$43129
$43$53183
$53$65324
$65$80343
$80$98430
$98$120482
$120$148428
$148$182261
$182$223196
$223$274103

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $100.

Alaska: median $159 across 19 hospitalsAK$159Maine: median $72 across 26 hospitalsME$72Vermont: median $109 across 14 hospitalsVT$109New Hampshire: median $81 across 22 hospitalsNH$81Washington: median $89 across 69 hospitalsWA$89Idaho: median $86 across 23 hospitalsID$86Montana: median $96 across 32 hospitalsMT$96North Dakota: median $140 across 23 hospitalsND$140Minnesota: median $100 across 104 hospitalsMN$100Illinois: median $116 across 134 hospitalsIL$116Wisconsin: median $109 across 101 hospitalsWI$109Michigan: median $87 across 93 hospitalsMI$87New York: median $95 across 99 hospitalsNY$95Massachusetts: median $154 across 45 hospitalsMA$154Oregon: median $96 across 55 hospitalsOR$96Nevada: median $97 across 21 hospitalsNV$97Wyoming: median $82 across 14 hospitalsWY$82South Dakota: median $131 across 28 hospitalsSD$131Iowa: median $92 across 89 hospitalsIA$92Indiana: median $82 across 95 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: median $113 across 142 hospitalsOH$113Pennsylvania: median $110 across 121 hospitalsPA$110New Jersey: median $60 across 43 hospitalsNJ$60Connecticut: median $106 across 20 hospitalsCT$106Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $137 across 186 hospitalsCA$137Utah: median $85 across 32 hospitalsUT$85Colorado: median $91 across 70 hospitalsCO$91Nebraska: median $95 across 74 hospitalsNE$95Missouri: median $84 across 80 hospitalsMO$84Kentucky: median $104 across 67 hospitalsKY$104West Virginia: median $88 across 33 hospitalsWV$88Virginia: median $104 across 69 hospitalsVA$104Maryland: median $157 across 39 hospitalsMD$157Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $67 across 50 hospitalsAZ$67New Mexico: median $102 across 26 hospitalsNM$102Kansas: median $61 across 82 hospitalsKS$61Arkansas: median $71 across 25 hospitalsAR$71Tennessee: median $47 across 76 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $76 across 91 hospitalsNC$76South Carolina: median $114 across 53 hospitalsSC$114Oklahoma: median $58 across 54 hospitalsOK$58Louisiana: median $41 across 49 hospitalsLA$41Mississippi: median $51 across 57 hospitalsMS$51Alabama: median $71 across 42 hospitalsAL$71Georgia: median $80 across 104 hospitalsGA$80Hawaii: median $126 across 19 hospitalsHI$126Texas: median $126 across 217 hospitalsTX$126Florida: median $164 across 151 hospitalsFL$164
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $100. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL151$164+64%$84 – $318
Alaska AK19$159+59%$105 – $221
Maryland MD39$157+57%$103 – $203
Massachusetts MA45$154+54%$90 – $213
North Dakota ND23$140+40%$112 – $209
California CA186$137+37%$81 – $210
South Dakota SD28$131+31%$111 – $163
Hawaii HI19$126+26%$102 – $183
Texas TX217$126+26%$80 – $217
Illinois IL134$116+16%$74 – $181
South Carolina SC53$114+14%$75 – $141
Ohio OH142$113+13%$71 – $143
Pennsylvania PA121$110+10%$61 – $188
Vermont VT14$109+9%$54 – $164
Wisconsin WI101$109+9%$80 – $136
Connecticut CT20$106+6%$72 – $206
Kentucky KY67$104+4%$62 – $150
Virginia VA69$104+4%$64 – $137
New Mexico NM26$102+2%$79 – $138
Minnesota MN104$1000%$75 – $145
Nevada NV21$97−3%$48 – $176
Montana MT32$96−4%$76 – $126
Oregon OR55$96−4%$81 – $134
Nebraska NE74$95−5%$69 – $124
New York NY99$95−5%$53 – $186
Iowa IA89$92−8%$66 – $119
Colorado CO70$91−9%$71 – $134
Washington WA69$89−11%$61 – $145
West Virginia WV33$88−12%$61 – $144
Michigan MI93$87−13%$60 – $115
Idaho ID23$86−14%$73 – $114
Utah UT32$85−15%$83 – $90
Missouri MO80$84−16%$57 – $116
Wyoming WY14$82−18%$60 – $120
Indiana IN95$82−18%$46 – $112
New Hampshire NH22$81−19%$62 – $224
Georgia GA104$80−20%$46 – $137
North Carolina NC91$76−24%$53 – $109
Maine ME26$72−28%$42 – $159
Alabama AL42$71−29%$50 – $135
Arkansas AR25$71−29%$39 – $97
Arizona AZ50$67−33%$23 – $278
Kansas KS82$61−39%$51 – $102
New Jersey NJ43$60−40%$57 – $182
Oklahoma OK54$58−42%$52 – $109
Mississippi MS57$51−49%$38 – $68
Tennessee TN76$47−53%$35 – $89
Louisiana LA49$41−59%$32 – $81
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $100.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,234$100$57 – $166
Children’s67$152$72 – $206
Critical access883$98$65 – $140
Ownership
For-profit417$123$58 – $277
Government596$91$55 – $137
Non-profit2,171$100$60 – $154
System affiliation
Part of a system2,591$102$60 – $164
Independent603$89$56 – $145

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$167
Median cash price$100
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

2,198 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $104 and the average of the middle 60% is $103; most fall between $61 and $154.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,198 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
$46$68$104$139$194

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $194).

Of the 2,331 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,198 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 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,194 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,382 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,194
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded140
Hospitals that filed this code3,382

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 Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Orthotics Mgmt & Traing Initial Enctr Ea 15 Mins.

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, “Fitting and training for a first brace, per 15 minutes (CPT 97760) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97760-fitting-and-training-for-a-first-brace-per-15-minutes