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Procedure price report · Traction, splints, and other wound care

Wound dressing change under anesthesia

CPT 15852the billing code this page is about

Change of a wound dressing, other than for burns, that requires general or regional anesthesia; covers one dressing change session.

Hospitals typically charge $351 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 922 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $440. Most fall between $95 and $1,078 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
922
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 922 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
$70$114$351$937$1,683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $1,683).

How the prices are spread

$51 – $75: 67 hospitals$51$75 – $112: 115 hospitals$112 – $166: 106 hospitals$112$166 – $247: 82 hospitals$247 – $367: 50 hospitals$247$367 – $546: 80 hospitals$546 – $810: 99 hospitals$546$810 – $1,204: 103 hospitals$1,204 – $1,789: 96 hospitals$1,204$1,789 – $2,657: 32 hospitals$1,789median $351price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (830 of 922 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$51$7567
$75$112115
$112$166106
$166$24782
$247$36750
$367$54680
$546$81099
$810$1,204103
$1,204$1,78996
$1,789$2,65732

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$351
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.46×

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 $351.

Alaska: median $423 across 10 hospitalsAK$423Maine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $347 across 39 hospitalsWA$347Idaho: median $881 across 11 hospitalsID$881Montana: median $133 across 11 hospitalsMT$133North Dakota: median $116 across 10 hospitalsND$116Minnesota: median $215 across 32 hospitalsMN$215Illinois: median $174 across 37 hospitalsIL$174Wisconsin: median $176 across 39 hospitalsWI$176Michigan: median $243 across 40 hospitalsMI$243New York: median $724 across 40 hospitalsNY$724Massachusetts: median $587 across 12 hospitalsMA$587Oregon: median $127 across 31 hospitalsOR$127Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $116 across 35 hospitalsIA$116Indiana: median $81 across 24 hospitalsIN$81Ohio: median $252 across 30 hospitalsOH$252Pennsylvania: median $440 across 29 hospitalsPA$440New Jersey: median $2,262 across 27 hospitalsNJ$2,262Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $543 across 78 hospitalsCA$543Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $355 across 24 hospitalsNE$355Missouri: median $497 across 21 hospitalsMO$497Kentucky: median $73 across 12 hospitalsKY$73West Virginia: median $708 across 14 hospitalsWV$708Virginia: median $1,078 across 19 hospitalsVA$1,078Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $104 across 14 hospitalsKS$104Arkansas: median $183 across 10 hospitalsAR$183Tennessee: median $53 across 12 hospitalsTN$53North Carolina: median $1,579 across 18 hospitalsNC$1,579South Carolina: median $995 across 17 hospitalsSC$995Oklahoma: median $74 across 20 hospitalsOK$74Louisiana: median $180 across 18 hospitalsLA$180Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $263 across 10 hospitalsAL$263Georgia: median $1,249 across 23 hospitalsGA$1,249Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $593 across 42 hospitalsTX$593Florida: median $1,285 across 22 hospitalsFL$1,285
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $351. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$2,262+545%$678 – $5,339
North Carolina NC18$1,579+350%$124 – $1,579
Florida FL22$1,285+266%$158 – $1,592
Georgia GA23$1,249+256%$1,249 – $1,669
Virginia VA19$1,078+207%$862 – $2,112
South Carolina SC17$995+183%$137 – $995
Idaho ID11$881+151%$89 – $1,686
New York NY40$724+106%$110 – $990
West Virginia WV14$708+102%$73 – $853
Texas TX42$593+69%$329 – $1,047
Massachusetts MA12$587+67%$263 – $1,000
California CA78$543+55%$398 – $937
Missouri MO21$497+42%$76 – $5,364
Pennsylvania PA29$440+25%$29 – $1,154
Alaska AK10$423+21%$129 – $1,133
Nebraska NE24$355+1%$102 – $621
Washington WA39$347−1%$112 – $1,376
Alabama AL10$263−25%$192 – $1,299
Ohio OH30$252−28%$126 – $716
Michigan MI40$243−31%$94 – $937
Minnesota MN32$215−39%$102 – $359
Arkansas AR10$183−48%$50 – $2,312
Louisiana LA18$180−49%$78 – $579
Wisconsin WI39$176−50%$156 – $396
Illinois IL37$174−51%$89 – $714
Montana MT11$133−62%$66 – $214
Oregon OR31$127−64%$93 – $1,558
Iowa IA35$116−67%$105 – $358
North Dakota ND10$116−67%$49 – $630
Kansas KS14$104−70%$78 – $295
Indiana IN24$81−77%$60 – $95
Oklahoma OK20$74−79%$74 – $911
Kentucky KY12$73−79%$53 – $90
Tennessee TN12$53−85%$43 – $474
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $351.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care637$535$104 – $1,249
Children’s47$1,371$259 – $2,907
Critical access237$147$88 – $453
Ownership
For-profit68$593$89 – $1,561
Government160$192$95 – $886
Non-profit693$380$98 – $1,078
System affiliation
Part of a system736$440$109 – $1,249
Independent186$147$85 – $695

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$480
Median cash price$351
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

576 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $408 and the average of the middle 60% is $466; most fall between $97 and $1,078.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 576 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
$74$116$408$964$1,579

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $1,579).

Of the 622 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 576 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

922 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 991 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted922
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code991

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 Traction, splints, and other wound care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dressing Change Under Anesthesia.

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 dressing change under anesthesia (CPT 15852) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15852-wound-dressing-change-under-anesthesia