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Procedure price report · Debridement of wound, infection or burn

Wound cleaning down to bone, first 20 sq cm or less

CPT 11044the billing code this page is about

Removal of dead or damaged tissue from a wound down to and including bone, covering the first 20 square centimeters of surface area or less.

Hospitals typically charge $1,780 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,645 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,819. Most fall between $661 and $3,374 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,645
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 2,645 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
$425$805$1,780$3,056$4,572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($425 vs $4,572).

How the prices are spread

$301 – $403: 110 hospitals$301$403 – $541: 156 hospitals$541 – $725: 188 hospitals$541$725 – $972: 189 hospitals$972 – $1,303: 256 hospitals$972$1,303 – $1,746: 260 hospitals$1,746 – $2,341: 433 hospitals$1,746$2,341 – $3,138: 300 hospitals$3,138 – $4,206: 288 hospitals$3,138$4,206 – $5,638: 201 hospitals$4,206median $1,780price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,381 of 2,645 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$301$403110
$403$541156
$541$725188
$725$972189
$972$1,303256
$1,303$1,746260
$1,746$2,341433
$2,341$3,138300
$3,138$4,206288
$4,206$5,638201

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,780
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $1,780.

Alaska: median $1,512 across 14 hospitalsAK$1,512Maine: median $852 across 22 hospitalsME$852Vermont: median $1,062 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,062New Hampshire: median $442 across 17 hospitalsNH$442Washington: median $1,548 across 70 hospitalsWA$1,548Idaho: median $930 across 23 hospitalsID$930Montana: median $665 across 19 hospitalsMT$665North Dakota: median $1,516 across 15 hospitalsND$1,516Minnesota: median $1,363 across 82 hospitalsMN$1,363Illinois: median $1,638 across 111 hospitalsIL$1,638Wisconsin: median $1,090 across 74 hospitalsWI$1,090Michigan: median $1,432 across 85 hospitalsMI$1,432New York: median $2,870 across 107 hospitalsNY$2,870Massachusetts: median $1,954 across 46 hospitalsMA$1,954Oregon: median $646 across 51 hospitalsOR$646Nevada: median $1,796 across 16 hospitalsNV$1,796Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $854 across 15 hospitalsSD$854Iowa: median $999 across 70 hospitalsIA$999Indiana: median $2,014 across 72 hospitalsIN$2,014Ohio: median $2,672 across 136 hospitalsOH$2,672Pennsylvania: median $2,161 across 116 hospitalsPA$2,161New Jersey: median $2,162 across 56 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $1,904 across 22 hospitalsCT$1,904Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,593 across 161 hospitalsCA$2,593Utah: median $1,759 across 30 hospitalsUT$1,759Colorado: median $1,730 across 52 hospitalsCO$1,730Nebraska: median $1,015 across 51 hospitalsNE$1,015Missouri: median $1,646 across 73 hospitalsMO$1,646Kentucky: median $1,487 across 40 hospitalsKY$1,487West Virginia: median $1,346 across 35 hospitalsWV$1,346Virginia: median $1,320 across 59 hospitalsVA$1,320Maryland: median $1,112 across 18 hospitalsMD$1,112Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,153 across 35 hospitalsAZ$2,153New Mexico: median $2,546 across 20 hospitalsNM$2,546Kansas: median $536 across 63 hospitalsKS$536Arkansas: median $992 across 29 hospitalsAR$992Tennessee: median $851 across 53 hospitalsTN$851North Carolina: median $1,317 across 72 hospitalsNC$1,317South Carolina: median $2,059 across 44 hospitalsSC$2,059Oklahoma: median $1,249 across 55 hospitalsOK$1,249Louisiana: median $1,436 across 43 hospitalsLA$1,436Mississippi: median $719 across 49 hospitalsMS$719Alabama: median $1,602 across 38 hospitalsAL$1,602Georgia: median $3,252 across 83 hospitalsGA$3,252Hawaii: median $2,503 across 15 hospitalsHI$2,503Texas: median $2,951 across 166 hospitalsTX$2,951Florida: median $3,949 across 87 hospitalsFL$3,949
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,780. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL87$3,949+122%$1,139 – $5,456
Georgia GA83$3,252+83%$1,226 – $4,962
Texas TX166$2,951+66%$1,643 – $3,872
New York NY107$2,870+61%$624 – $4,595
Ohio OH136$2,672+50%$1,576 – $3,679
California CA161$2,593+46%$1,253 – $4,239
New Mexico NM20$2,546+43%$575 – $3,932
Hawaii HI15$2,503+41%$669 – $3,869
New Jersey NJ56$2,162+21%$1,793 – $4,580
Pennsylvania PA116$2,161+21%$978 – $3,125
Arizona AZ35$2,153+21%$975 – $5,444
South Carolina SC44$2,059+16%$1,090 – $2,590
Indiana IN72$2,014+13%$768 – $4,073
Massachusetts MA46$1,954+10%$1,266 – $4,159
Connecticut CT22$1,904+7%$1,190 – $3,397
Nevada NV16$1,796+1%$1,063 – $2,806
Utah UT30$1,759−1%$1,759 – $2,052
Colorado CO52$1,730−3%$825 – $2,370
Missouri MO73$1,646−8%$529 – $3,056
Illinois IL111$1,638−8%$694 – $3,180
Alabama AL38$1,602−10%$881 – $3,355
Washington WA70$1,548−13%$699 – $2,782
North Dakota ND15$1,516−15%$530 – $2,549
Alaska AK14$1,512−15%$695 – $2,560
Kentucky KY40$1,487−16%$428 – $3,121
Louisiana LA43$1,436−19%$659 – $2,116
Michigan MI85$1,432−20%$422 – $2,769
Minnesota MN82$1,363−23%$499 – $2,139
West Virginia WV35$1,346−24%$644 – $2,153
Virginia VA59$1,320−26%$710 – $2,520
North Carolina NC72$1,317−26%$692 – $2,500
Oklahoma OK55$1,249−30%$512 – $2,139
Maryland MD18$1,112−38%$961 – $3,819
Wisconsin WI74$1,090−39%$559 – $2,175
Vermont VT10$1,062−40%$347 – $3,659
Nebraska NE51$1,015−43%$563 – $1,690
Iowa IA70$999−44%$544 – $2,291
Arkansas AR29$992−44%$626 – $2,603
Idaho ID23$930−48%$412 – $4,347
South Dakota SD15$854−52%$835 – $1,590
Maine ME22$852−52%$369 – $2,348
Tennessee TN53$851−52%$325 – $2,065
Mississippi MS49$719−60%$421 – $1,848
Montana MT19$665−63%$261 – $1,160
Oregon OR51$646−64%$503 – $1,542
Kansas KS63$536−70%$319 – $1,890
New Hampshire NH17$442−75%$328 – $1,554
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not 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 $1,780.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,940$1,963$890 – $3,771
Children’s43$3,177$1,743 – $7,072
Critical access653$835$447 – $2,161
Ownership
For-profit279$2,653$1,110 – $4,962
Government488$1,139$536 – $2,500
Non-profit1,869$1,847$679 – $3,404
System affiliation
Part of a system2,116$1,897$770 – $3,589
Independent529$1,057$459 – $2,608

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,136
Median cash price$1,780
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

1,894 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,906 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,000; most fall between $799 and $3,589.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,894 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
$476$988$1,906$3,172$4,481

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($476 vs $4,481).

Of the 2,031 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,894 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,645 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,853 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,645
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here96
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 — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code2,853

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 Bone 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 down to bone, first 20 sq cm or less (CPT 11044) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11044-wound-cleaning-down-to-bone-first-20-sq-cm-or-less