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Rigid Body Cast Application, Including The Head

North Dakota 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 July 2026.

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

$380

Typical negotiated rate. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $380 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $398 from a physician practice, and about $288 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$398$288 to $603
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$288$178 to $302

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $288 · 10th to 90th $178 to $1,820Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $178 to $741
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $288professional $398

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$478.63
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$831.76
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$537.03
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$676.08

Where North Dakota sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in California 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.

North Dakota· 7th of 51

$380

CA $977KY $219

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.