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

Wound cleaning and removal of dead tissue, up to 20 sq cm

CPT 97597the billing code this page is about

Cleaning a wound and removing dead or contaminated tissue from the surface with instruments or irrigation, covering a wound area up to 20 square centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $235 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,357 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $251. Most fall between $101 and $467 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,357
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,357 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
$62$123$235$408$663

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $663).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $56: 115 hospitals$41$56 – $75: 169 hospitals$75 – $102: 238 hospitals$75$102 – $138: 249 hospitals$138 – $187: 353 hospitals$138$187 – $253: 514 hospitals$253 – $343: 466 hospitals$253$343 – $465: 395 hospitals$465 – $629: 333 hospitals$465$629 – $852: 191 hospitals$629median $235price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,023 of 3,357 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$56115
$56$75169
$75$102238
$102$138249
$138$187353
$187$253514
$253$343466
$343$465395
$465$629333
$629$852191

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$235
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $235.

Alaska: median $330 across 19 hospitalsAK$330Maine: median $125 across 26 hospitalsME$125Vermont: median $184 across 13 hospitalsVT$184New Hampshire: median $103 across 24 hospitalsNH$103Washington: median $245 across 74 hospitalsWA$245Idaho: median $248 across 25 hospitalsID$248Montana: median $117 across 32 hospitalsMT$117North Dakota: median $267 across 23 hospitalsND$267Minnesota: median $168 across 104 hospitalsMN$168Illinois: median $223 across 130 hospitalsIL$223Wisconsin: median $212 across 107 hospitalsWI$212Michigan: median $198 across 96 hospitalsMI$198New York: median $276 across 113 hospitalsNY$276Massachusetts: median $497 across 49 hospitalsMA$497Oregon: median $145 across 56 hospitalsOR$145Nevada: median $288 across 23 hospitalsNV$288Wyoming: median $130 across 16 hospitalsWY$130South Dakota: median $242 across 40 hospitalsSD$242Iowa: median $166 across 91 hospitalsIA$166Indiana: median $155 across 93 hospitalsIN$155Ohio: median $340 across 144 hospitalsOH$340Pennsylvania: median $233 across 123 hospitalsPA$233New Jersey: median $243 across 57 hospitalsNJ$243Connecticut: median $192 across 22 hospitalsCT$192Rhode Island: median $421 across 10 hospitalsRI$421California: median $370 across 206 hospitalsCA$370Utah: median $369 across 37 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $243 across 68 hospitalsCO$243Nebraska: median $189 across 75 hospitalsNE$189Missouri: median $220 across 81 hospitalsMO$220Kentucky: median $250 across 62 hospitalsKY$250West Virginia: median $196 across 40 hospitalsWV$196Virginia: median $264 across 68 hospitalsVA$264Maryland: median $421 across 38 hospitalsMD$421Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $200 across 53 hospitalsAZ$200New Mexico: median $208 across 28 hospitalsNM$208Kansas: median $104 across 82 hospitalsKS$104Arkansas: median $126 across 31 hospitalsAR$126Tennessee: median $112 across 82 hospitalsTN$112North Carolina: median $237 across 93 hospitalsNC$237South Carolina: median $308 across 52 hospitalsSC$308Oklahoma: median $193 across 70 hospitalsOK$193Louisiana: median $135 across 53 hospitalsLA$135Mississippi: median $115 across 54 hospitalsMS$115Alabama: median $228 across 43 hospitalsAL$228Georgia: median $357 across 107 hospitalsGA$357Hawaii: median $360 across 18 hospitalsHI$360Texas: median $330 across 239 hospitalsTX$330Florida: median $453 across 160 hospitalsFL$453
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $235. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA49$497+111%$169 – $738
Florida FL160$453+93%$203 – $813
Maryland MD38$421+79%$210 – $640
Rhode Island RI10$421+79%$220 – $597
California CA206$370+57%$179 – $610
Utah UT37$369+57%$327 – $443
Hawaii HI18$360+53%$117 – $727
Georgia GA107$357+52%$117 – $681
Ohio OH144$340+44%$172 – $574
Texas TX239$330+40%$145 – $505
Alaska AK19$330+40%$188 – $587
South Carolina SC52$308+31%$188 – $489
Nevada NV23$288+22%$171 – $792
New York NY113$276+17%$99 – $467
North Dakota ND23$267+14%$157 – $349
Virginia VA68$264+12%$151 – $354
Kentucky KY62$250+6%$110 – $798
Idaho ID25$248+6%$66 – $556
Washington WA74$245+4%$111 – $466
New Jersey NJ57$243+3%$202 – $408
Colorado CO68$243+3%$125 – $444
South Dakota SD40$242+3%$100 – $374
North Carolina NC93$237+1%$140 – $325
Pennsylvania PA123$233−1%$86 – $379
Alabama AL43$228−3%$103 – $395
Illinois IL130$223−5%$117 – $407
Missouri MO81$220−6%$104 – $493
Wisconsin WI107$212−10%$101 – $276
New Mexico NM28$208−12%$140 – $525
Arizona AZ53$200−15%$59 – $788
Michigan MI96$198−16%$55 – $502
West Virginia WV40$196−17%$65 – $301
Oklahoma OK70$193−18%$80 – $380
Connecticut CT22$192−18%$150 – $367
Nebraska NE75$189−19%$121 – $308
Vermont VT13$184−22%$46 – $233
Minnesota MN104$168−28%$94 – $311
Iowa IA91$166−29%$67 – $363
Indiana IN93$155−34%$50 – $255
Oregon OR56$145−38%$94 – $251
Louisiana LA53$135−43%$72 – $242
Wyoming WY16$130−45%$86 – $215
Arkansas AR31$126−47%$77 – $262
Maine ME26$125−47%$88 – $224
Montana MT32$117−50%$51 – $315
Mississippi MS54$115−51%$39 – $262
Tennessee TN82$112−52%$72 – $324
Kansas KS82$104−56%$77 – $229
New Hampshire NH24$103−56%$48 – $461
Delaware DE7not 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 $235.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,350$266$131 – $520
Children’s61$362$156 – $783
Critical access936$152$70 – $307
Ownership
For-profit448$338$160 – $760
Government633$166$80 – $337
Non-profit2,266$243$105 – $465
System affiliation
Part of a system2,726$251$112 – $489
Independent631$175$73 – $361

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$417
Median cash price$235
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

2,384 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $256 and the average of the middle 60% is $272; most fall between $120 and $476.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,384 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
$72$147$256$424$610

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($72 vs $610).

Of the 2,528 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,384 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,357 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,534 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,357
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,534

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 PR Active Wound Care/20 Cm or <.

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 and removal of dead tissue, up to 20 sq cm (CPT 97597) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97597-wound-cleaning-and-removal-of-dead-tissue-up-to-20-sq-cm