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

Wound debridement, each extra 20 sq cm

CPT 97598the billing code this page is about

Each additional 20 square centimeters of wound surface cleaned and cleared of dead tissue, billed in addition to the first 20 square centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $188 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,020 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $200. Most fall between $71 and $393 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,020
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 3,020 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
$40$90$188$337$569

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($40 vs $569).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $37: 111 hospitals$26$37 – $52: 167 hospitals$52 – $73: 194 hospitals$52$73 – $104: 236 hospitals$104 – $146: 377 hospitals$104$146 – $207: 393 hospitals$207 – $292: 446 hospitals$207$292 – $413: 379 hospitals$413 – $583: 277 hospitals$413$583 – $824: 140 hospitals$583median $188price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,720 of 3,020 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$37111
$37$52167
$52$73194
$73$104236
$104$146377
$146$207393
$207$292446
$292$413379
$413$583277
$583$824140

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $188.

Alaska: median $197 across 18 hospitalsAK$197Maine: median $52 across 22 hospitalsME$52Vermont: median $54 across 12 hospitalsVT$54New Hampshire: median $109 across 21 hospitalsNH$109Washington: median $163 across 67 hospitalsWA$163Idaho: median $196 across 22 hospitalsID$196Montana: median $68 across 29 hospitalsMT$68North Dakota: median $197 across 18 hospitalsND$197Minnesota: median $143 across 88 hospitalsMN$143Illinois: median $206 across 127 hospitalsIL$206Wisconsin: median $171 across 102 hospitalsWI$171Michigan: median $141 across 88 hospitalsMI$141New York: median $217 across 81 hospitalsNY$217Massachusetts: median $299 across 40 hospitalsMA$299Oregon: median $81 across 52 hospitalsOR$81Nevada: median $171 across 19 hospitalsNV$171Wyoming: median $147 across 16 hospitalsWY$147South Dakota: median $124 across 30 hospitalsSD$124Iowa: median $143 across 79 hospitalsIA$143Indiana: median $91 across 90 hospitalsIN$91Ohio: median $263 across 136 hospitalsOH$263Pennsylvania: median $149 across 105 hospitalsPA$149New Jersey: median $204 across 43 hospitalsNJ$204Connecticut: median $226 across 22 hospitalsCT$226Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $260 across 191 hospitalsCA$260Utah: median $301 across 34 hospitalsUT$301Colorado: median $203 across 64 hospitalsCO$203Nebraska: median $213 across 67 hospitalsNE$213Missouri: median $162 across 72 hospitalsMO$162Kentucky: median $225 across 57 hospitalsKY$225West Virginia: median $148 across 35 hospitalsWV$148Virginia: median $308 across 59 hospitalsVA$308Maryland: median $174 across 34 hospitalsMD$174Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $164 across 46 hospitalsAZ$164New Mexico: median $115 across 22 hospitalsNM$115Kansas: median $95 across 70 hospitalsKS$95Arkansas: median $117 across 28 hospitalsAR$117Tennessee: median $96 across 71 hospitalsTN$96North Carolina: median $193 across 90 hospitalsNC$193South Carolina: median $294 across 48 hospitalsSC$294Oklahoma: median $153 across 64 hospitalsOK$153Louisiana: median $135 across 49 hospitalsLA$135Mississippi: median $85 across 53 hospitalsMS$85Alabama: median $157 across 37 hospitalsAL$157Georgia: median $362 across 101 hospitalsGA$362Hawaii: median $173 across 14 hospitalsHI$173Texas: median $287 across 225 hospitalsTX$287Florida: median $343 across 148 hospitalsFL$343
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $188. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA101$362+92%$100 – $647
Florida FL148$343+82%$153 – $944
Virginia VA59$308+64%$164 – $374
Utah UT34$301+60%$191 – $317
Massachusetts MA40$299+59%$32 – $571
South Carolina SC48$294+56%$157 – $479
Texas TX225$287+52%$92 – $484
Ohio OH136$263+39%$114 – $485
California CA191$260+38%$121 – $482
Connecticut CT22$226+20%$105 – $380
Kentucky KY57$225+19%$60 – $435
New York NY81$217+15%$54 – $423
Nebraska NE67$213+13%$91 – $305
Illinois IL127$206+9%$107 – $328
New Jersey NJ43$204+8%$70 – $408
Colorado CO64$203+8%$66 – $404
North Dakota ND18$197+5%$95 – $359
Alaska AK18$197+4%$98 – $266
Idaho ID22$196+4%$57 – $556
North Carolina NC90$193+2%$102 – $288
Maryland MD34$174−7%$115 – $273
Hawaii HI14$173−8%$114 – $439
Wisconsin WI102$171−9%$116 – $228
Nevada NV19$171−9%$88 – $244
Arizona AZ46$164−13%$37 – $1,429
Washington WA67$163−13%$55 – $326
Missouri MO72$162−14%$64 – $387
Alabama AL37$157−17%$81 – $454
Oklahoma OK64$153−19%$68 – $291
Pennsylvania PA105$149−21%$46 – $330
West Virginia WV35$148−22%$33 – $280
Wyoming WY16$147−22%$70 – $190
Iowa IA79$143−24%$56 – $287
Minnesota MN88$143−24%$83 – $188
Michigan MI88$141−25%$24 – $347
Louisiana LA49$135−28%$73 – $247
South Dakota SD30$124−34%$49 – $332
Arkansas AR28$117−38%$37 – $208
New Mexico NM22$115−39%$81 – $419
New Hampshire NH21$109−42%$39 – $328
Tennessee TN71$96−49%$50 – $244
Kansas KS70$95−50%$40 – $186
Indiana IN90$91−52%$47 – $262
Mississippi MS53$85−55%$42 – $154
Oregon OR52$81−57%$62 – $294
Montana MT29$68−64%$30 – $161
Vermont VT12$54−71%$32 – $206
Maine ME22$52−72%$34 – $251
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $188.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,144$217$90 – $451
Children’s54$361$75 – $700
Critical access812$122$48 – $269
Ownership
For-profit383$325$115 – $825
Government555$139$55 – $304
Non-profit2,072$189$72 – $373
System affiliation
Part of a system2,458$203$79 – $420
Independent562$133$47 – $300

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$330
Median cash price$188
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

2,157 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $201 and the average of the middle 60% is $212; most fall between $84 and $391.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,157 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
$50$105$201$347$536

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $536).

Of the 2,297 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,157 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,020 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,247 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,020
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded175
Hospitals that filed this code3,247

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 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.

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, “Wound debridement, each extra 20 sq cm (CPT 97598) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97598-wound-debridement-each-extra-20-sq-cm