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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue

Fluorescence imaging of a wound, first body site

CPT 0598Tthe billing code this page is about

A camera-based scan of a wound that uses fluorescence to show bacteria and their location without touching the wound; this code covers the first body site imaged in a session.

Hospitals typically charge $393 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 139 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $422. Most fall between $214 and $726 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
139
States
24
Filings dated
Jul 2025 – Aug 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 139 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$203$257$393$607$874

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $874).

How the prices are spread

$198 – $230: 26 hospitals$198$230 – $267: 4 hospitals$267 – $309: 2 hospitals$267$309 – $359: 30 hospitals$359 – $416: 8 hospitals$359$416 – $483: 6 hospitals$483 – $560: 6 hospitals$483$560 – $649: 20 hospitals$649 – $753: 4 hospitals$649$753 – $874: 22 hospitals$753median $393price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (128 of 139 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$198$23026
$230$2674
$267$3092
$309$35930
$359$4168
$416$4836
$483$5606
$560$64920
$649$7534
$753$87422

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$393
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.78×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $393.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $859 across 10 hospitalsNJ$859Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $874 across 20 hospitalsCA$874Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $203 across 17 hospitalsGA$203Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $357 across 28 hospitalsTX$357Florida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $393. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$874+122%$874 – $874
New Jersey NJ10$859+119%$416 – $955
Texas TX28$357−9%$357 – $357
Georgia GA17$203−48%$203 – $214
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $393.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care126$357$214 – $847
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government15fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit106$415$230 – $874
System affiliation
Part of a system122$357$214 – $859
Independent17fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$733
Median cash price$393
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

103 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $357 and the average of the middle 60% is $513; most fall between $214 and $874.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 103 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$203$257$357$638$874

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $874).

Of the 111 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 103 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

139 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 145 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted139
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here2
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code145

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as R-T FLUOR WOUND IMG 1ST SITE.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Fluorescence imaging of a wound, first body site (CPT 0598T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0598t-fluorescence-imaging-of-a-wound-first-body-site