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Cast Windowing Procedure

New Jersey 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?

$60.26

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $60.26 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $60.26 from a physician practice, and about $589 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$60.26$45.71 to $77.62
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$589$74.13 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $589 · 10th to 90th $49 to $4,571Professionalmedian $60 · 10th to 90th $40 to $141
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $589professional $60

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
$47.86
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$97.72
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$173.78
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$114.82
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$794.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$234.42
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$138.04

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 40th of 51

$60.26

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.