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Surgery and procedures CPT 29075 New Mexico Outpatient

Arm cast cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 8 hospitals publish a cash price for short arm cast (elbow to hand): from $156.00 to $3,377.18, with a median of $225.00. The lowest price is at Artesia General Hospital (Artesia). The highest price is 21.6× the lowest.

  • The median here, $225.00, is 25% below the US median of $300.75.
  • That is 0.8× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($285.75).
  • New Mexico ranks 12th of 47 states by median, cheapest first.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 29075. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 4, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$156.00Artesia General Hospital
Median$225.00half of hospitals charge less
Highest$3,377.18in New Mexico
Lowest saves$69.00vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Artesia General Hospital lowest Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM APPLICATION OF FOREARM CA $156.00 $260.00 Feb 20, 2026
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Covenant Hospital Hobbs Hobbs · Hobbs, NM HC ED SHORT ARM CAST APPLICATION CDM $162.54 $387.00 Apr 1, 2026
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University of New Mexico Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM APPLICATION OF ELBOW TO FINGER CAST $169.95 $309.00 Mar 25, 2026
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Lovelace Westside Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Application of elbow to finger cast $225.00 $750.00 Mar 31, 2026
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Lovelace Womens Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Application of elbow to finger cast $225.00 $750.00 Mar 31, 2026
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Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM 29075 APPLICATION CAST ELBOW TO FINGER SHORT ARM $227.42 $284.28 Mar 11, 2026
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Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell Roswell · Roswell, NM Application of elbow to finger cast $284.70 $949.00 Mar 31, 2026
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Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Roswell · Roswell, NM APPLICATION OF FOREARM CAST $3,377.18 $16,081.80 Apr 1, 2026
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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
File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.
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

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Albuquerque, NM 3 $169.95 $225.00
Roswell, NM 2 $284.70 $1,830.94
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM 1 $156.00 $156.00
Grants, NM 1 $227.42 $227.42
Hobbs, NM 1 $162.54 $162.54
Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.
Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.
Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.
Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

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

Short arm cast (elbow to hand) in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.