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Procedure price report · Debridement of wound, infection or burn

Wound cleaning to fat layer, first 20 sq cm or less

CPT 11042the billing code this page is about

Removal of dead or damaged skin and underlying fatty tissue from a wound, covering the first 20 square centimeters of surface area or less.

Hospitals typically charge $520 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,998 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $575. Most fall between $207 and $1,117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,998
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 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 2,998 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
$124$254$520$978$1,604

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $1,604).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $117: 127 hospitals$83$117 – $164: 174 hospitals$164 – $231: 221 hospitals$164$231 – $325: 274 hospitals$325 – $457: 394 hospitals$325$457 – $644: 389 hospitals$644 – $906: 424 hospitals$644$906 – $1,276: 365 hospitals$1,276 – $1,796: 235 hospitals$1,276$1,796 – $2,527: 97 hospitals$1,796median $520price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,700 of 2,998 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$117127
$117$164174
$164$231221
$231$325274
$325$457394
$457$644389
$644$906424
$906$1,276365
$1,276$1,796235
$1,796$2,52797

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$520
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.25×

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 $520.

Alaska: median $462 across 16 hospitalsAK$462Maine: median $161 across 22 hospitalsME$161Vermont: median $342 across 12 hospitalsVT$342New Hampshire: median $127 across 18 hospitalsNH$127Washington: median $565 across 76 hospitalsWA$565Idaho: median $340 across 23 hospitalsID$340Montana: median $171 across 32 hospitalsMT$171North Dakota: median $342 across 21 hospitalsND$342Minnesota: median $420 across 99 hospitalsMN$420Illinois: median $639 across 128 hospitalsIL$639Wisconsin: median $439 across 84 hospitalsWI$439Michigan: median $454 across 97 hospitalsMI$454New York: median $660 across 112 hospitalsNY$660Massachusetts: median $718 across 48 hospitalsMA$718Oregon: median $235 across 54 hospitalsOR$235Nevada: median $545 across 19 hospitalsNV$545Wyoming: median $278 across 14 hospitalsWY$278South Dakota: median $370 across 33 hospitalsSD$370Iowa: median $286 across 88 hospitalsIA$286Indiana: median $690 across 77 hospitalsIN$690Ohio: median $779 across 142 hospitalsOH$779Pennsylvania: median $710 across 124 hospitalsPA$710New Jersey: median $533 across 58 hospitalsNJ$533Connecticut: median $353 across 21 hospitalsCT$353Rhode Island: median $607 across 10 hospitalsRI$607California: median $718 across 175 hospitalsCA$718Utah: median $657 across 33 hospitalsUT$657Colorado: median $400 across 61 hospitalsCO$400Nebraska: median $258 across 77 hospitalsNE$258Missouri: median $458 across 72 hospitalsMO$458Kentucky: median $434 across 51 hospitalsKY$434West Virginia: median $377 across 39 hospitalsWV$377Virginia: median $528 across 61 hospitalsVA$528Maryland: median $1,018 across 18 hospitalsMD$1,018Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $625 across 39 hospitalsAZ$625New Mexico: median $650 across 29 hospitalsNM$650Kansas: median $210 across 77 hospitalsKS$210Arkansas: median $478 across 33 hospitalsAR$478Tennessee: median $398 across 55 hospitalsTN$398North Carolina: median $429 across 79 hospitalsNC$429South Carolina: median $811 across 45 hospitalsSC$811Oklahoma: median $406 across 67 hospitalsOK$406Louisiana: median $462 across 47 hospitalsLA$462Mississippi: median $335 across 52 hospitalsMS$335Alabama: median $576 across 41 hospitalsAL$576Georgia: median $947 across 97 hospitalsGA$947Hawaii: median $597 across 18 hospitalsHI$597Texas: median $1,012 across 191 hospitalsTX$1,012Florida: median $974 across 106 hospitalsFL$974
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $520. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD18$1,018+96%$850 – $2,043
Texas TX191$1,012+94%$308 – $1,231
Florida FL106$974+87%$368 – $2,386
Georgia GA97$947+82%$325 – $1,574
South Carolina SC45$811+56%$520 – $1,082
Ohio OH142$779+50%$382 – $1,231
California CA175$718+38%$425 – $1,371
Massachusetts MA48$718+38%$254 – $1,653
Pennsylvania PA124$710+36%$254 – $1,580
Indiana IN77$690+33%$232 – $945
New York NY112$660+27%$203 – $1,489
Utah UT33$657+26%$464 – $730
New Mexico NM29$650+25%$240 – $3,842
Illinois IL128$639+23%$240 – $1,222
Arizona AZ39$625+20%$200 – $2,162
Rhode Island RI10$607+17%$219 – $1,559
Hawaii HI18$597+15%$446 – $1,096
Alabama AL41$576+11%$342 – $2,414
Washington WA76$565+9%$178 – $950
Nevada NV19$545+5%$284 – $1,382
New Jersey NJ58$533+2%$442 – $3,786
Virginia VA61$528+1%$299 – $868
Arkansas AR33$478−8%$196 – $995
Louisiana LA47$462−11%$237 – $711
Alaska AK16$462−11%$237 – $841
Missouri MO72$458−12%$200 – $1,318
Michigan MI97$454−13%$133 – $761
Wisconsin WI84$439−16%$199 – $658
Kentucky KY51$434−17%$146 – $858
North Carolina NC79$429−18%$316 – $924
Minnesota MN99$420−19%$185 – $783
Oklahoma OK67$406−22%$189 – $736
Colorado CO61$400−23%$186 – $750
Tennessee TN55$398−24%$192 – $678
West Virginia WV39$377−28%$168 – $799
South Dakota SD33$370−29%$204 – $886
Connecticut CT21$353−32%$276 – $864
North Dakota ND21$342−34%$158 – $518
Vermont VT12$342−34%$93 – $1,781
Idaho ID23$340−35%$112 – $1,117
Mississippi MS52$335−36%$153 – $970
Iowa IA88$286−45%$134 – $782
Wyoming WY14$278−46%$78 – $922
Nebraska NE77$258−50%$158 – $714
Oregon OR54$235−55%$140 – $588
Kansas KS77$210−60%$121 – $385
Montana MT32$171−67%$107 – $373
Maine ME22$161−69%$72 – $424
New Hampshire NH18$127−76%$94 – $801
Delaware DE7not 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 $520.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,072$641$304 – $1,304
Children’s56$774$338 – $1,780
Critical access861$276$129 – $717
Ownership
For-profit315$746$306 – $2,158
Government604$351$147 – $778
Non-profit2,070$572$232 – $1,117
System affiliation
Part of a system2,400$577$242 – $1,188
Independent598$336$140 – $836

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$980
Median cash price$520
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,178 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $616 and the average of the middle 60% is $645; most fall between $263 and $1,148.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,178 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
$152$311$616$1,038$1,582

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $1,582).

Of the 2,344 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,178 gave a usable cash price; 60 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,998 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,234 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,998
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here105
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,234

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 4, 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 Debridement of wound, infection or burn family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Debridement, Skin, Sub-Q Tissue.

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, “Wound cleaning to fat layer, first 20 sq cm or less (CPT 11042) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11042-wound-cleaning-to-fat-layer-first-20-sq-cm-or-less