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Cast Windowing Procedure

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 29730

This procedure cuts a small opening, or window, into an existing cast without removing the entire cast. It allows a clinician to inspect, clean, or treat the skin or a wound underneath while the rest of the limb stays supported and protected. The cut-out section can often be taped back in place afterward.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Cast Windowing Procedure cost?

$63.10

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $63.10 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $58.88 from a physician practice, and about $148 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 4 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$58.88$46.77 to $75.86
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$148$75.86 to $170

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $148 · 10th to 90th $58 to $302Professionalmedian $59 · 10th to 90th $40 to $87
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $148professional $59

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
$53.70
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$79.43
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$204.17
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$91.20
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$107.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$104.71
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$102.33

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 2.4 times more in Minnesota 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.

Arkansas· 31st of 51

$63.10

MN $126KY $52.48

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.