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Weight-Bearing Cast Below the Knee

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 29435

Application of a leg cast shaped so that body weight is carried through the area just below the kneecap rather than through the foot and ankle. It lets a person walk while keeping pressure off a healing lower leg, ankle, or foot.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Weight-Bearing Cast Below the Knee cost?

$117

Typical physician fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $117 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $97.72 to $148.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $117 · 10th to 90th $74 to $186
$100$200professional $117

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$181.97
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$199.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$208.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$186.21

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.8 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· 30th of 51

$117

AK $263KY $95.50

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.