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

Negative pressure wound therapy, large wound, per session

CPT 97606the billing code this page is about

Vacuum-assisted wound treatment using reusable equipment for a wound surface larger than 50 square centimeters; includes instructions on dressing changes. Billed per treatment session.

Hospitals typically charge $353 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,925 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $363. Most fall between $146 and $648 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,925
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 2,925 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$184$353$552$920

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($77 vs $920).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $69: 102 hospitals$50$69 – $95: 128 hospitals$95 – $131: 166 hospitals$95$131 – $181: 181 hospitals$181 – $250: 278 hospitals$181$250 – $345: 413 hospitals$345 – $476: 518 hospitals$345$476 – $656: 421 hospitals$656 – $905: 269 hospitals$656$905 – $1,249: 157 hospitals$905median $353price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,633 of 2,925 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$69102
$69$95128
$95$131166
$131$181181
$181$250278
$250$345413
$345$476518
$476$656421
$656$905269
$905$1,249157

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$353
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

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 $353.

Alaska: median $548 across 14 hospitalsAK$548Maine: median $225 across 23 hospitalsME$225Vermont: median $110 across 12 hospitalsVT$110New Hampshire: median $332 across 17 hospitalsNH$332Washington: median $356 across 64 hospitalsWA$356Idaho: median $342 across 22 hospitalsID$342Montana: median $147 across 24 hospitalsMT$147North Dakota: median $201 across 13 hospitalsND$201Minnesota: median $200 across 83 hospitalsMN$200Illinois: median $370 across 113 hospitalsIL$370Wisconsin: median $286 across 103 hospitalsWI$286Michigan: median $304 across 88 hospitalsMI$304New York: median $473 across 86 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $456 across 38 hospitalsMA$456Oregon: median $230 across 49 hospitalsOR$230Nevada: median $288 across 22 hospitalsNV$288Wyoming: median $282 across 15 hospitalsWY$282South Dakota: median $699 across 24 hospitalsSD$699Iowa: median $256 across 84 hospitalsIA$256Indiana: median $230 across 86 hospitalsIN$230Ohio: median $422 across 136 hospitalsOH$422Pennsylvania: median $457 across 107 hospitalsPA$457New Jersey: median $442 across 55 hospitalsNJ$442Connecticut: median $323 across 22 hospitalsCT$323Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $510 across 178 hospitalsCA$510Utah: median $778 across 34 hospitalsUT$778Colorado: median $370 across 64 hospitalsCO$370Nebraska: median $266 across 64 hospitalsNE$266Missouri: median $343 across 73 hospitalsMO$343Kentucky: median $385 across 55 hospitalsKY$385West Virginia: median $330 across 31 hospitalsWV$330Virginia: median $353 across 56 hospitalsVA$353Maryland: median $261 across 28 hospitalsMD$261Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $268 across 46 hospitalsAZ$268New Mexico: median $417 across 24 hospitalsNM$417Kansas: median $165 across 67 hospitalsKS$165Arkansas: median $276 across 28 hospitalsAR$276Tennessee: median $167 across 68 hospitalsTN$167North Carolina: median $309 across 81 hospitalsNC$309South Carolina: median $387 across 51 hospitalsSC$387Oklahoma: median $314 across 60 hospitalsOK$314Louisiana: median $167 across 46 hospitalsLA$167Mississippi: median $198 across 49 hospitalsMS$198Alabama: median $364 across 38 hospitalsAL$364Georgia: median $353 across 94 hospitalsGA$353Hawaii: median $530 across 15 hospitalsHI$530Texas: median $444 across 221 hospitalsTX$444Florida: median $498 across 141 hospitalsFL$498
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $353. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT34$778+120%$620 – $858
South Dakota SD24$699+98%$381 – $830
Alaska AK14$548+55%$252 – $779
Hawaii HI15$530+50%$57 – $967
California CA178$510+45%$259 – $755
Florida FL141$498+41%$310 – $1,132
New York NY86$473+34%$99 – $869
Pennsylvania PA107$457+29%$225 – $626
Massachusetts MA38$456+29%$219 – $1,132
Texas TX221$444+26%$196 – $585
New Jersey NJ55$442+25%$217 – $533
Ohio OH136$422+20%$307 – $807
New Mexico NM24$417+18%$132 – $633
South Carolina SC51$387+10%$300 – $647
Kentucky KY55$385+9%$156 – $1,142
Colorado CO64$370+5%$238 – $828
Illinois IL113$370+5%$123 – $685
Alabama AL38$364+3%$145 – $690
Washington WA64$356+1%$109 – $764
Virginia VA56$3530%$268 – $684
Georgia GA94$3530%$202 – $907
Missouri MO73$343−3%$149 – $565
Idaho ID22$342−3%$179 – $1,117
New Hampshire NH17$332−6%$98 – $887
West Virginia WV31$330−6%$118 – $613
Connecticut CT22$323−8%$110 – $664
Oklahoma OK60$314−11%$179 – $445
North Carolina NC81$309−12%$180 – $520
Michigan MI88$304−14%$59 – $534
Nevada NV22$288−18%$174 – $442
Wisconsin WI103$286−19%$105 – $377
Wyoming WY15$282−20%$160 – $475
Arkansas AR28$276−22%$101 – $323
Arizona AZ46$268−24%$104 – $935
Nebraska NE64$266−25%$145 – $522
Maryland MD28$261−26%$162 – $383
Iowa IA84$256−27%$73 – $530
Oregon OR49$230−35%$76 – $515
Indiana IN86$230−35%$128 – $492
Maine ME23$225−36%$56 – $364
North Dakota ND13$201−43%$145 – $410
Minnesota MN83$200−43%$119 – $382
Mississippi MS49$198−44%$71 – $279
Tennessee TN68$167−53%$77 – $508
Louisiana LA46$167−53%$126 – $405
Kansas KS67$165−53%$73 – $400
Montana MT24$147−58%$54 – $418
Vermont VT12$110−69%$63 – $809
Rhode Island RI7not 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 $353.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,128$382$178 – $684
Children’s52$425$132 – $1,723
Critical access735$262$91 – $523
Ownership
For-profit381$484$235 – $1,071
Government535$278$97 – $530
Non-profit1,999$353$154 – $629
System affiliation
Part of a system2,410$365$165 – $670
Independent515$272$84 – $560

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$608
Median cash price$353
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

2,034 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $361 and the average of the middle 60% is $375; most fall between $168 and $643.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,034 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
$92$207$361$553$898

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $898).

Of the 2,159 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,034 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,925 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,089 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,925
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code3,089

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 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 Neg Pressure Wound Therapy Non Dme >50 Sq 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Negative pressure wound therapy, large wound, per session (CPT 97606) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97606-negative-pressure-wound-therapy-large-wound-per-session