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Rigid Body Cast Application, Including The Head

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 29015

This service applies a rigid, full-body cast that wraps around the torso and extends up to cover the head, holding the spine in a fixed, corrected position. It is used to support and stabilize the spine, often in children being treated for a spinal curvature.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Rigid Body Cast Application, Including The Head cost?

$288

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $288 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $295 from a physician practice, and about $245 from a hospital or other facility.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$295$234 to $380
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$245$166 to $550

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $245 · 10th to 90th $100 to $1,122Professionalmedian $295 · 10th to 90th $195 to $479
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $245professional $295

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$426.58
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$676.08
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$478.63
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$512.86
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$416.87
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$42.66

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.0 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Louisiana· 25th of 51

$288

AK $741KY $186

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.