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Procedure price report · Debridement of wound, infection or burn

Wound cleaning to muscle, first 20 sq cm or less

CPT 11043the billing code this page is about

Removal of dead or damaged tissue from a wound down through muscle or its covering fascia, covering the first 20 square centimeters of surface area or less.

Hospitals typically charge $817 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,721 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $865. Most fall between $392 and $1,605 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,721
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 2,721 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
$273$443$817$1,376$2,456

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($273 vs $2,456).

How the prices are spread

$192 – $259: 123 hospitals$192$259 – $349: 191 hospitals$349 – $471: 282 hospitals$349$471 – $635: 315 hospitals$635 – $857: 376 hospitals$635$857 – $1,155: 390 hospitals$1,155 – $1,559: 334 hospitals$1,155$1,559 – $2,103: 231 hospitals$2,103 – $2,837: 143 hospitals$2,103$2,837 – $3,827: 64 hospitals$2,837median $817price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,449 of 2,721 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$192$259123
$259$349191
$349$471282
$471$635315
$635$857376
$857$1,155390
$1,155$1,559334
$1,559$2,103231
$2,103$2,837143
$2,837$3,82764

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$817
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

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 $817.

Alaska: median $1,187 across 15 hospitalsAK$1,187Maine: median $510 across 23 hospitalsME$510Vermont: median $509 across 11 hospitalsVT$509New Hampshire: median $333 across 16 hospitalsNH$333Washington: median $696 across 74 hospitalsWA$696Idaho: median $519 across 23 hospitalsID$519Montana: median $352 across 18 hospitalsMT$352North Dakota: median $652 across 15 hospitalsND$652Minnesota: median $578 across 71 hospitalsMN$578Illinois: median $994 across 112 hospitalsIL$994Wisconsin: median $594 across 75 hospitalsWI$594Michigan: median $625 across 90 hospitalsMI$625New York: median $1,176 across 110 hospitalsNY$1,176Massachusetts: median $859 across 46 hospitalsMA$859Oregon: median $443 across 51 hospitalsOR$443Nevada: median $803 across 15 hospitalsNV$803Wyoming: median $520 across 10 hospitalsWY$520South Dakota: median $634 across 23 hospitalsSD$634Iowa: median $518 across 76 hospitalsIA$518Indiana: median $982 across 76 hospitalsIN$982Ohio: median $1,032 across 138 hospitalsOH$1,032Pennsylvania: median $1,207 across 123 hospitalsPA$1,207New Jersey: median $839 across 55 hospitalsNJ$839Connecticut: median $868 across 22 hospitalsCT$868Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,084 across 165 hospitalsCA$1,084Utah: median $908 across 30 hospitalsUT$908Colorado: median $808 across 51 hospitalsCO$808Nebraska: median $597 across 60 hospitalsNE$597Missouri: median $736 across 74 hospitalsMO$736Kentucky: median $661 across 41 hospitalsKY$661West Virginia: median $708 across 37 hospitalsWV$708Virginia: median $809 across 60 hospitalsVA$809Maryland: median $1,018 across 18 hospitalsMD$1,018Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,467 across 35 hospitalsAZ$1,467New Mexico: median $630 across 19 hospitalsNM$630Kansas: median $399 across 63 hospitalsKS$399Arkansas: median $606 across 33 hospitalsAR$606Tennessee: median $424 across 54 hospitalsTN$424North Carolina: median $541 across 75 hospitalsNC$541South Carolina: median $935 across 43 hospitalsSC$935Oklahoma: median $546 across 60 hospitalsOK$546Louisiana: median $622 across 47 hospitalsLA$622Mississippi: median $469 across 48 hospitalsMS$469Alabama: median $895 across 37 hospitalsAL$895Georgia: median $1,533 across 90 hospitalsGA$1,533Hawaii: median $1,406 across 13 hospitalsHI$1,406Texas: median $1,267 across 170 hospitalsTX$1,267Florida: median $1,509 across 94 hospitalsFL$1,509
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $817. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA90$1,533+88%$437 – $2,780
Florida FL94$1,509+85%$652 – $2,880
Arizona AZ35$1,467+80%$622 – $3,042
Hawaii HI13$1,406+72%$1,044 – $1,706
Texas TX170$1,267+55%$700 – $1,586
Pennsylvania PA123$1,207+48%$405 – $2,537
Alaska AK15$1,187+45%$395 – $2,040
New York NY110$1,176+44%$434 – $1,960
California CA165$1,084+33%$583 – $1,883
Ohio OH138$1,032+26%$643 – $1,479
Maryland MD18$1,018+25%$700 – $2,644
Illinois IL112$994+22%$407 – $1,607
Indiana IN76$982+20%$526 – $2,388
South Carolina SC43$935+14%$520 – $1,050
Utah UT30$908+11%$724 – $1,009
Alabama AL37$895+10%$572 – $1,754
Connecticut CT22$868+6%$797 – $1,295
Massachusetts MA46$859+5%$576 – $1,694
New Jersey NJ55$839+3%$678 – $4,350
Virginia VA60$809−1%$339 – $1,166
Colorado CO51$808−1%$551 – $1,239
Nevada NV15$803−2%$343 – $1,724
Missouri MO74$736−10%$304 – $1,871
West Virginia WV37$708−13%$431 – $1,031
Washington WA74$696−15%$385 – $1,342
Kentucky KY41$661−19%$300 – $1,319
North Dakota ND15$652−20%$425 – $793
South Dakota SD23$634−22%$379 – $1,008
New Mexico NM19$630−23%$384 – $2,753
Michigan MI90$625−23%$292 – $1,157
Louisiana LA47$622−24%$229 – $1,017
Arkansas AR33$606−26%$443 – $1,119
Nebraska NE60$597−27%$365 – $1,069
Wisconsin WI75$594−27%$406 – $885
Minnesota MN71$578−29%$279 – $808
Oklahoma OK60$546−33%$368 – $1,234
North Carolina NC75$541−34%$412 – $1,115
Wyoming WY10$520−36%$372 – $1,114
Idaho ID23$519−36%$278 – $1,686
Iowa IA76$518−37%$299 – $1,011
Maine ME23$510−38%$364 – $951
Vermont VT11$509−38%$250 – $1,968
Mississippi MS48$469−43%$282 – $1,040
Oregon OR51$443−46%$326 – $752
Tennessee TN54$424−48%$285 – $1,110
Kansas KS63$399−51%$236 – $764
Montana MT18$352−57%$224 – $568
New Hampshire NH16$333−59%$180 – $852
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $817.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,979$934$449 – $1,824
Children’s36$1,017$627 – $2,232
Critical access697$523$285 – $1,013
Ownership
For-profit285$1,110$503 – $2,892
Government526$583$342 – $1,211
Non-profit1,901$855$405 – $1,594
System affiliation
Part of a system2,176$882$424 – $1,706
Independent545$571$305 – $1,248

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,405
Median cash price$817
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,947 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $885 and the average of the middle 60% is $919; most fall between $414 and $1,629.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,947 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
$295$478$885$1,462$2,217

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($295 vs $2,217).

Of the 2,092 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,947 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,721 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,931 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,721
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here95
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded108
Hospitals that filed this code2,931

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 Debridement Muscle &/Fascia 1st 20 Sq Cm/<.

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 muscle, first 20 sq cm or less (CPT 11043) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11043-wound-cleaning-to-muscle-first-20-sq-cm-or-less