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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Incision of burn scar to relieve pressure

CPT 16035the billing code this page is about

Cutting through thick, tight burn scar tissue to release pressure on the tissues beneath; this code covers the first incision made.

Hospitals typically charge $508 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 915 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $553. Most fall between $298 and $954 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
915
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 915 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
$210$347$508$847$1,472

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($210 vs $1,472).

How the prices are spread

$156 – $203: 40 hospitals$156$203 – $265: 76 hospitals$265 – $345: 63 hospitals$265$345 – $450: 149 hospitals$450 – $587: 160 hospitals$450$587 – $765: 126 hospitals$765 – $997: 89 hospitals$765$997 – $1,301: 46 hospitals$1,301 – $1,696: 50 hospitals$1,301$1,696 – $2,211: 27 hospitals$1,696median $508price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (826 of 915 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$156$20340
$203$26576
$265$34563
$345$450149
$450$587160
$587$765126
$765$99789
$997$1,30146
$1,301$1,69650
$1,696$2,21127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$508
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $508.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $457 across 10 hospitalsME$457Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $728 across 25 hospitalsWA$728Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $390 across 29 hospitalsIL$390Wisconsin: median $671 across 29 hospitalsWI$671Michigan: median $559 across 40 hospitalsMI$559New York: median $532 across 47 hospitalsNY$532Massachusetts: median $428 across 10 hospitalsMA$428Oregon: median $481 across 25 hospitalsOR$481Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $494 across 16 hospitalsIA$494Indiana: median $307 across 22 hospitalsIN$307Ohio: median $725 across 42 hospitalsOH$725Pennsylvania: median $553 across 42 hospitalsPA$553New Jersey: median $968 across 32 hospitalsNJ$968Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $845 across 72 hospitalsCA$845Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $561 across 16 hospitalsCO$561Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $405 across 22 hospitalsMO$405Kentucky: median $465 across 13 hospitalsKY$465West Virginia: median $468 across 11 hospitalsWV$468Virginia: median $364 across 34 hospitalsVA$364Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 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 $418 across 14 hospitalsKS$418Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $186 across 24 hospitalsTN$186North Carolina: median $351 across 31 hospitalsNC$351South Carolina: median $753 across 20 hospitalsSC$753Oklahoma: median $210 across 19 hospitalsOK$210Louisiana: median $275 across 17 hospitalsLA$275Mississippi: median $276 across 24 hospitalsMS$276Alabama: median $566 across 12 hospitalsAL$566Georgia: median $437 across 11 hospitalsGA$437Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $694 across 64 hospitalsTX$694Florida: median $509 across 29 hospitalsFL$509
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $508. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$968+90%$443 – $5,110
California CA72$845+66%$422 – $1,322
South Carolina SC20$753+48%$504 – $890
Washington WA25$728+43%$380 – $1,307
Ohio OH42$725+43%$420 – $972
Texas TX64$694+36%$428 – $2,107
Wisconsin WI29$671+32%$461 – $694
Alabama AL12$566+11%$229 – $591
Colorado CO16$561+10%$452 – $1,087
Michigan MI40$559+10%$428 – $694
Pennsylvania PA42$553+9%$148 – $1,877
New York NY47$532+5%$473 – $1,420
Florida FL29$5090%$245 – $952
Iowa IA16$494−3%$494 – $494
Oregon OR25$481−5%$356 – $992
West Virginia WV11$468−8%$467 – $857
Kentucky KY13$465−9%$240 – $1,604
Maine ME10$457−10%$350 – $584
Georgia GA11$437−14%$347 – $757
Massachusetts MA10$428−16%$307 – $1,625
Kansas KS14$418−18%$273 – $863
Missouri MO22$405−20%$213 – $863
Illinois IL29$390−23%$225 – $1,120
Virginia VA34$364−28%$259 – $518
North Carolina NC31$351−31%$230 – $375
Indiana IN22$307−40%$230 – $494
Mississippi MS24$276−46%$220 – $419
Louisiana LA17$275−46%$188 – $509
Oklahoma OK19$210−59%$197 – $395
Tennessee TN24$186−63%$63 – $359
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $508.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care733$500$290 – $999
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access170$525$336 – $872
Ownership
For-profit75$579$231 – $962
Government155$473$320 – $803
Non-profit685$517$302 – $990
System affiliation
Part of a system749$525$290 – $992
Independent166$454$308 – $782

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$923
Median cash price$508
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

668 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $547 and the average of the middle 60% is $595; most fall between $296 and $1,105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 668 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
$211$350$547$942$1,542

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($211 vs $1,542).

Of the 715 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 668 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

915 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 985 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted915
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 code985

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Escharotomy First Incision.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Incision of burn scar to relieve pressure (CPT 16035) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-16035-incision-of-burn-scar-to-relieve-pressure