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Surgery and procedures CPT 29125 Outpatient

Arm splint cost in Nashville, TN

In Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN, 11 hospitals list a cash price for short arm splint (forearm and hand): from $71.40 to $981.84, with a median of $232.02. The lowest listed price is at Metro Nashville General Hospital — $160.62 less than the median here. Across Tennessee, the median is $145.93 at 62 hospitals.

  • The median here, $232.02, is 7% above the US median of $217.75.
  • That is 1.7× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($135.93).
  • Nashville, TN ranks 2nd of 2 metro areas in Tennessee by median, cheapest first.
  • 3 of 11 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Cash prices at 11 facilities across 8 cities for code 29125, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Oct 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 21, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026.

Lowest$71.40Metro Nashville General Hospital
Median$232.02half of hospitals charge less
Highest$981.84in this market
Difference13.8×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN.

median
Lowest $71.40Highest $981.84

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Metro Nashville General Hospital lowest Nashville, TN · (615) 341-4000 29125 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $71.40 $119.00 — 40%
Stones River Hospital Woodbury, TN · (615) 563-4001 APP SH ARM SPL STATIC OT+1 more line at this price File of Jul 1, 2026 · source file $97.34 $324.45 $16.24–$137.13 70%
Saint Thomas Hospital for Specialty Surgery Nashville, TN APPLY FOREARM SPLINT File of Apr 14, 2026 · source file $166.35 — $104.30–$4,936.00 —
Sumner Regional Medical Center Gallatin, TN · (615) 328-8888 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Jul 10, 2026 · source file $200.49 $860.46 $3,689.78 77%
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Lebanon, TN · (615) 444-2250 HC APPL SPLINT ARM SHORT STATIC File of Oct 1, 2026 · source file $211.41 $729.00 — 71%
Macon Community Hospital Lafayette, TN · (615) 666-2147 29125 APPLICATION SHORT ARM SPLINT FOREARMHAND STATIC TECHFEE File of Mar 21, 2026 · source file $232.02 $386.70 $104.20–$348.03 40%
Riverview Regional Medical Center Carthage, TN · (615) 735-9815 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Jul 10, 2026 · source file $233.65 $716.73 $86.00 67%
Metro Nashville General Hospital Nashville, TN · (615) 341-4000 29125-Short Arm File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $270.00 $450.00 — 40%
Trousdale Medical Center Hartsville, TN · (615) 374-2221 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Jul 10, 2026 · source file $363.67 $717.30 $70.15–$717.30 49%
Tristar Skyline Medical Center Nashville, TN · (615) 769-2000 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $556.97 $556.97 $133.09 —
Tristar Centennial Medical Center Nashville, TN · (615) 342-1000 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $758.07 $758.07 $133.09 —
Tristar Stonecrest Medical Center Smyrna, TN · (615) 768-2000 Application of short arm splint (forearm to hand); static File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $981.84 $981.84 $133.09 —
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More
No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More
Check the item The description in the hospital file looks like a supply or device (a catheter, a brace, an implant), not this procedure. The hospital may have filed it under the wrong code: ask before relying on this price.

Outpatient: lowest $71.40, median $232.02, highest $981.84 — a 13.8× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $97.34. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 5 of 9 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What arm splint is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Arm splint explained.