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Procedure price report · Debridement of wound, infection or burn

Burn dressing change and cleaning, medium area

CPT 16025the billing code this page is about

Dressing change, with or without removal of dead tissue, for a burn covering roughly 5 to 10 percent of the body surface; billed per treatment session.

Hospitals typically charge $334 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,644 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $348. Most fall between $191 and $595 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,644
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 2,644 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
$135$211$334$529$795

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $795).

How the prices are spread

$105 – $133: 120 hospitals$105$133 – $168: 156 hospitals$168 – $211: 256 hospitals$168$211 – $266: 357 hospitals$266 – $336: 313 hospitals$266$336 – $424: 359 hospitals$424 – $534: 306 hospitals$424$534 – $674: 234 hospitals$674 – $850: 179 hospitals$674$850 – $1,071: 102 hospitals$850median $334price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,382 of 2,644 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$105$133120
$133$168156
$168$211256
$211$266357
$266$336313
$336$424359
$424$534306
$534$674234
$674$850179
$850$1,071102

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$334
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.63×

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 $334.

Alaska: median $544 across 15 hospitalsAK$544Maine: median $176 across 20 hospitalsME$176Vermont: median $303 across 10 hospitalsVT$303New Hampshire: median $164 across 18 hospitalsNH$164Washington: median $367 across 70 hospitalsWA$367Idaho: median $351 across 22 hospitalsID$351Montana: median $260 across 31 hospitalsMT$260North Dakota: median $291 across 23 hospitalsND$291Minnesota: median $306 across 83 hospitalsMN$306Illinois: median $406 across 112 hospitalsIL$406Wisconsin: median $365 across 97 hospitalsWI$365Michigan: median $283 across 82 hospitalsMI$283New York: median $373 across 97 hospitalsNY$373Massachusetts: median $432 across 42 hospitalsMA$432Oregon: median $321 across 51 hospitalsOR$321Nevada: median $294 across 18 hospitalsNV$294Wyoming: median $303 across 14 hospitalsWY$303South Dakota: median $374 across 23 hospitalsSD$374Iowa: median $281 across 69 hospitalsIA$281Indiana: median $334 across 64 hospitalsIN$334Ohio: median $387 across 131 hospitalsOH$387Pennsylvania: median $378 across 116 hospitalsPA$378New Jersey: median $273 across 53 hospitalsNJ$273Connecticut: median $477 across 21 hospitalsCT$477Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $579 across 144 hospitalsCA$579Utah: median $353 across 30 hospitalsUT$353Colorado: median $363 across 55 hospitalsCO$363Nebraska: median $317 across 49 hospitalsNE$317Missouri: median $255 across 73 hospitalsMO$255Kentucky: median $247 across 48 hospitalsKY$247West Virginia: median $277 across 35 hospitalsWV$277Virginia: median $350 across 53 hospitalsVA$350Maryland: median $491 across 10 hospitalsMD$491Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $440 across 30 hospitalsAZ$440New Mexico: median $296 across 23 hospitalsNM$296Kansas: median $250 across 69 hospitalsKS$250Arkansas: median $202 across 26 hospitalsAR$202Tennessee: median $229 across 50 hospitalsTN$229North Carolina: median $267 across 52 hospitalsNC$267South Carolina: median $598 across 45 hospitalsSC$598Oklahoma: median $257 across 59 hospitalsOK$257Louisiana: median $187 across 46 hospitalsLA$187Mississippi: median $182 across 46 hospitalsMS$182Alabama: median $227 across 34 hospitalsAL$227Georgia: median $574 across 86 hospitalsGA$574Hawaii: median $475 across 16 hospitalsHI$475Texas: median $383 across 173 hospitalsTX$383Florida: median $643 across 96 hospitalsFL$643
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $334. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL96$643+92%$234 – $855
South Carolina SC45$598+79%$290 – $746
California CA144$579+73%$253 – $971
Georgia GA86$574+72%$200 – $853
Alaska AK15$544+63%$234 – $610
Maryland MD10$491+47%$308 – $1,058
Connecticut CT21$477+43%$293 – $595
Hawaii HI16$475+42%$374 – $714
Arizona AZ30$440+32%$186 – $2,258
Massachusetts MA42$432+29%$254 – $649
Illinois IL112$406+21%$223 – $538
Ohio OH131$387+16%$233 – $700
Texas TX173$383+15%$200 – $635
Pennsylvania PA116$378+13%$165 – $828
South Dakota SD23$374+12%$197 – $430
New York NY97$373+12%$195 – $660
Washington WA70$367+10%$285 – $520
Wisconsin WI97$365+9%$208 – $434
Colorado CO55$363+8%$197 – $488
Utah UT30$353+6%$248 – $441
Idaho ID22$351+5%$129 – $556
Virginia VA53$350+5%$190 – $403
Indiana IN64$3340%$163 – $798
Oregon OR51$321−4%$226 – $415
Nebraska NE49$317−5%$183 – $399
Minnesota MN83$306−8%$213 – $405
Wyoming WY14$303−9%$138 – $432
Vermont VT10$303−9%$149 – $385
New Mexico NM23$296−12%$187 – $842
Nevada NV18$294−12%$153 – $570
North Dakota ND23$291−13%$204 – $448
Michigan MI82$283−15%$127 – $434
Iowa IA69$281−16%$180 – $383
West Virginia WV35$277−17%$193 – $398
New Jersey NJ53$273−18%$220 – $3,986
North Carolina NC52$267−20%$207 – $523
Montana MT31$260−22%$144 – $394
Oklahoma OK59$257−23%$125 – $405
Missouri MO73$255−24%$181 – $545
Kansas KS69$250−25%$160 – $471
Kentucky KY48$247−26%$224 – $462
Tennessee TN50$229−32%$102 – $359
Alabama AL34$227−32%$118 – $393
Arkansas AR26$202−40%$156 – $334
Louisiana LA46$187−44%$103 – $306
Mississippi MS46$182−45%$93 – $278
Maine ME20$176−47%$164 – $294
New Hampshire NH18$164−51%$94 – $286
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $334.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,829$356$199 – $683
Children’s61$378$267 – $718
Critical access748$284$174 – $426
Ownership
For-profit241$438$205 – $920
Government515$283$166 – $474
Non-profit1,882$350$199 – $595
System affiliation
Part of a system2,102$353$202 – $624
Independent542$281$161 – $488

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$557
Median cash price$334
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

1,977 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $366 and the average of the middle 60% is $378; most fall between $207 and $627.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,977 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
$143$228$366$567$806

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $806).

Of the 2,114 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,977 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,644 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 2,831 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,644
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,831

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 July 20, 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 Drs&/Dbrdmt Prtl-Thkns Burns 1st/Sbsq Medium.

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, “Burn dressing change and cleaning, medium area (CPT 16025) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-16025-burn-dressing-change-and-cleaning-medium-area