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

First treatment of a first-degree burn

CPT 16000the billing code this page is about

Initial office or emergency care of a surface burn that reddens the skin without blistering, including cleaning and dressing.

Hospitals typically charge $214 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,448 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $222. Most fall between $103 and $406 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,448
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 2,448 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
$71$118$214$346$562

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $562).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $70: 112 hospitals$54$70 – $92: 178 hospitals$92 – $119: 205 hospitals$92$119 – $155: 247 hospitals$155 – $202: 301 hospitals$155$202 – $264: 371 hospitals$264 – $344: 291 hospitals$264$344 – $448: 209 hospitals$448 – $583: 179 hospitals$448$583 – $760: 114 hospitals$583median $214price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,207 of 2,448 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$70112
$70$92178
$92$119205
$119$155247
$155$202301
$202$264371
$264$344291
$344$448209
$448$583179
$583$760114

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$214
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 $214.

Alaska: median $298 across 15 hospitalsAK$298Maine: median $150 across 18 hospitalsME$150Vermont: median $239 across 11 hospitalsVT$239New Hampshire: median $91 across 17 hospitalsNH$91Washington: median $226 across 65 hospitalsWA$226Idaho: median $253 across 19 hospitalsID$253Montana: median $126 across 27 hospitalsMT$126North Dakota: median $216 across 24 hospitalsND$216Minnesota: median $195 across 86 hospitalsMN$195Illinois: median $233 across 111 hospitalsIL$233Wisconsin: median $124 across 92 hospitalsWI$124Michigan: median $157 across 73 hospitalsMI$157New York: median $243 across 95 hospitalsNY$243Massachusetts: median $247 across 41 hospitalsMA$247Oregon: median $175 across 50 hospitalsOR$175Nevada: median $218 across 16 hospitalsNV$218Wyoming: median $145 across 12 hospitalsWY$145South Dakota: median $284 across 28 hospitalsSD$284Iowa: median $145 across 72 hospitalsIA$145Indiana: median $166 across 47 hospitalsIN$166Ohio: median $387 across 101 hospitalsOH$387Pennsylvania: median $260 across 115 hospitalsPA$260New Jersey: median $600 across 48 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $240 across 17 hospitalsCT$240Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $361 across 127 hospitalsCA$361Utah: median $307 across 28 hospitalsUT$307Colorado: median $186 across 44 hospitalsCO$186Nebraska: median $145 across 57 hospitalsNE$145Missouri: median $145 across 47 hospitalsMO$145Kentucky: median $177 across 45 hospitalsKY$177West Virginia: median $231 across 34 hospitalsWV$231Virginia: median $243 across 52 hospitalsVA$243Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $177 across 29 hospitalsAZ$177New Mexico: median $207 across 25 hospitalsNM$207Kansas: median $114 across 62 hospitalsKS$114Arkansas: median $113 across 15 hospitalsAR$113Tennessee: median $81 across 41 hospitalsTN$81North Carolina: median $203 across 47 hospitalsNC$203South Carolina: median $236 across 43 hospitalsSC$236Oklahoma: median $158 across 62 hospitalsOK$158Louisiana: median $113 across 40 hospitalsLA$113Mississippi: median $140 across 46 hospitalsMS$140Alabama: median $168 across 29 hospitalsAL$168Georgia: median $201 across 82 hospitalsGA$201Hawaii: median $432 across 16 hospitalsHI$432Texas: median $244 across 167 hospitalsTX$244Florida: median $358 across 96 hospitalsFL$358
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $214. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ48$600+180%$234 – $4,391
Hawaii HI16$432+102%$289 – $521
Ohio OH101$387+81%$135 – $485
California CA127$361+68%$226 – $694
Florida FL96$358+67%$240 – $618
Utah UT28$307+43%$291 – $429
Alaska AK15$298+39%$102 – $381
South Dakota SD28$284+33%$166 – $405
Pennsylvania PA115$260+22%$161 – $471
Idaho ID19$253+18%$102 – $556
Massachusetts MA41$247+15%$171 – $493
Texas TX167$244+14%$136 – $444
New York NY95$243+13%$90 – $463
Virginia VA52$243+13%$126 – $413
Connecticut CT17$240+12%$139 – $310
Vermont VT11$239+12%$108 – $401
South Carolina SC43$236+10%$139 – $952
Illinois IL111$233+9%$117 – $392
West Virginia WV34$231+8%$50 – $406
Washington WA65$226+6%$137 – $354
Nevada NV16$218+2%$130 – $366
North Dakota ND24$216+1%$117 – $301
New Mexico NM25$207−4%$144 – $350
North Carolina NC47$203−5%$125 – $284
Georgia GA82$201−6%$84 – $319
Minnesota MN86$195−9%$109 – $250
Colorado CO44$186−13%$113 – $313
Kentucky KY45$177−17%$105 – $243
Arizona AZ29$177−18%$91 – $885
Oregon OR50$175−18%$111 – $273
Alabama AL29$168−21%$93 – $315
Indiana IN47$166−22%$82 – $321
Oklahoma OK62$158−26%$66 – $314
Michigan MI73$157−27%$51 – $281
Maine ME18$150−30%$103 – $283
Missouri MO47$145−32%$92 – $257
Iowa IA72$145−32%$96 – $234
Nebraska NE57$145−32%$91 – $186
Wyoming WY12$145−32%$77 – $255
Mississippi MS46$140−35%$57 – $278
Montana MT27$126−41%$72 – $204
Wisconsin WI92$124−42%$113 – $256
Kansas KS62$114−47%$84 – $200
Louisiana LA40$113−47%$60 – $181
Arkansas AR15$113−47%$80 – $154
New Hampshire NH17$91−58%$74 – $149
Tennessee TN41$81−62%$64 – $251
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $214.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,649$235$113 – $457
Children’s54$291$133 – $852
Critical access741$160$90 – $282
Ownership
For-profit247$253$114 – $555
Government495$169$90 – $289
Non-profit1,702$224$105 – $421
System affiliation
Part of a system1,955$230$111 – $430
Independent493$160$87 – $289

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$342
Median cash price$214
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

1,795 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $231 and the average of the middle 60% is $239; most fall between $113 and $429.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,795 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
$77$128$231$379$561

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($77 vs $561).

Of the 1,926 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,795 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,448 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,630 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,448
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,630

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 Initial Tx 1st Degree Burn Local Tx.

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, “First treatment of a first-degree burn (CPT 16000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-16000-first-treatment-of-a-first-degree-burn