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Procedure price report · Debridement of wound, infection or burn

Wound cleaning to muscle, each extra 20 sq cm

CPT 11046the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each additional 20 square centimeters, or part of it, of muscle or fascia debridement beyond the first 20 square centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $458 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,310 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $502. Most fall between $145 and $1,114 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,310
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 2,310 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
$87$179$458$910$1,629

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $1,629).

How the prices are spread

$64 – $92: 127 hospitals$64$92 – $133: 184 hospitals$133 – $192: 201 hospitals$133$192 – $278: 215 hospitals$278 – $400: 216 hospitals$278$400 – $578: 245 hospitals$578 – $834: 345 hospitals$578$834 – $1,203: 234 hospitals$1,203 – $1,736: 216 hospitals$1,203$1,736 – $2,506: 98 hospitals$1,736median $458price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,081 of 2,310 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$64$92127
$92$133184
$133$192201
$192$278215
$278$400216
$400$578245
$578$834345
$834$1,203234
$1,203$1,736216
$1,736$2,50698

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $458.

Alaska: median $554 across 10 hospitalsAK$554Maine: median $126 across 12 hospitalsME$126Vermont: median $123 across 11 hospitalsVT$123New Hampshire: median $150 across 13 hospitalsNH$150Washington: median $543 across 62 hospitalsWA$543Idaho: median $186 across 20 hospitalsID$186Montana: median $103 across 16 hospitalsMT$103North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $297 across 61 hospitalsMN$297Illinois: median $510 across 107 hospitalsIL$510Wisconsin: median $221 across 69 hospitalsWI$221Michigan: median $406 across 83 hospitalsMI$406New York: median $608 across 89 hospitalsNY$608Massachusetts: median $502 across 35 hospitalsMA$502Oregon: median $155 across 46 hospitalsOR$155Nevada: median $304 across 12 hospitalsNV$304Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $197 across 17 hospitalsSD$197Iowa: median $194 across 65 hospitalsIA$194Indiana: median $557 across 70 hospitalsIN$557Ohio: median $655 across 126 hospitalsOH$655Pennsylvania: median $536 across 95 hospitalsPA$536New Jersey: median $1,395 across 39 hospitalsNJ$1,395Connecticut: median $589 across 21 hospitalsCT$589Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $829 across 144 hospitalsCA$829Utah: median $339 across 18 hospitalsUT$339Colorado: median $700 across 43 hospitalsCO$700Nebraska: median $247 across 39 hospitalsNE$247Missouri: median $441 across 56 hospitalsMO$441Kentucky: median $449 across 35 hospitalsKY$449West Virginia: median $242 across 33 hospitalsWV$242Virginia: median $438 across 52 hospitalsVA$438Maryland: median $705 across 15 hospitalsMD$705Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,280 across 32 hospitalsAZ$1,280New Mexico: median $224 across 15 hospitalsNM$224Kansas: median $137 across 55 hospitalsKS$137Arkansas: median $278 across 24 hospitalsAR$278Tennessee: median $322 across 42 hospitalsTN$322North Carolina: median $440 across 71 hospitalsNC$440South Carolina: median $644 across 39 hospitalsSC$644Oklahoma: median $347 across 46 hospitalsOK$347Louisiana: median $277 across 39 hospitalsLA$277Mississippi: median $262 across 47 hospitalsMS$262Alabama: median $897 across 35 hospitalsAL$897Georgia: median $926 across 79 hospitalsGA$926Hawaii: median $651 across 12 hospitalsHI$651Texas: median $836 across 144 hospitalsTX$836Florida: median $1,109 across 84 hospitalsFL$1,109
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $458. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ39$1,395+205%$314 – $4,881
Arizona AZ32$1,280+180%$281 – $1,826
Florida FL84$1,109+142%$424 – $1,795
Georgia GA79$926+102%$281 – $2,631
Alabama AL35$897+96%$214 – $2,403
Texas TX144$836+83%$521 – $1,301
California CA144$829+81%$217 – $1,456
Maryland MD15$705+54%$140 – $1,219
Colorado CO43$700+53%$140 – $983
Ohio OH126$655+43%$233 – $1,579
Hawaii HI12$651+42%$101 – $755
South Carolina SC39$644+41%$330 – $974
New York NY89$608+33%$107 – $1,773
Connecticut CT21$589+28%$290 – $1,152
Indiana IN70$557+22%$149 – $1,415
Alaska AK10$554+21%$410 – $692
Washington WA62$543+19%$185 – $785
Pennsylvania PA95$536+17%$51 – $822
Illinois IL107$510+11%$143 – $914
Massachusetts MA35$502+10%$130 – $1,055
Kentucky KY35$449−2%$93 – $1,300
Missouri MO56$441−4%$124 – $804
North Carolina NC71$440−4%$205 – $668
Virginia VA52$438−4%$198 – $663
Michigan MI83$406−11%$72 – $862
Oklahoma OK46$347−24%$183 – $594
Utah UT18$339−26%$339 – $434
Tennessee TN42$322−30%$27 – $471
Nevada NV12$304−34%$135 – $886
Minnesota MN61$297−35%$132 – $744
Arkansas AR24$278−39%$133 – $580
Louisiana LA39$277−40%$145 – $478
Mississippi MS47$262−43%$117 – $465
Nebraska NE39$247−46%$137 – $654
West Virginia WV33$242−47%$70 – $551
New Mexico NM15$224−51%$119 – $1,824
Wisconsin WI69$221−52%$130 – $608
South Dakota SD17$197−57%$106 – $575
Iowa IA65$194−58%$100 – $629
Idaho ID20$186−59%$37 – $1,686
Oregon OR46$155−66%$108 – $378
New Hampshire NH13$150−67%$71 – $515
Kansas KS55$137−70%$77 – $380
Maine ME12$126−72%$72 – $1,232
Vermont VT11$123−73%$86 – $685
Montana MT16$103−77%$62 – $219
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not 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 $458.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,722$594$192 – $1,309
Children’s27$341$143 – $881
Critical access552$197$101 – $580
Ownership
For-profit211$825$262 – $2,184
Government422$284$122 – $722
Non-profit1,668$491$147 – $1,131
System affiliation
Part of a system1,853$538$171 – $1,246
Independent457$234$108 – $705

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$831
Median cash price$458
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

1,657 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $566 and the average of the middle 60% is $569; most fall between $174 and $1,168.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,657 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
$105$216$566$927$1,579

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $1,579).

Of the 1,813 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,657 gave a usable cash price; 61 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 95 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,310 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,567 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,310
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 — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded160
Hospitals that filed this code2,567

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Muscle &/Fascia Ea Addl 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, each extra 20 sq cm (CPT 11046) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11046-wound-cleaning-to-muscle-each-extra-20-sq-cm