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Cast Windowing Procedure

Michigan 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 Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $63.10 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $63.10 from a physician practice, and about $85.11 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$63.10$50.12 to $81.28
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$85.11$69.18 to $479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $85 · 10th to 90th $56 to $1,413Professionalmedian $63 · 10th to 90th $41 to $98
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $85professional $63

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
$56.23
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.23
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$41.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$112.20
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$95.50
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$190.55
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$97.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,737.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$89.13

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 34th 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.