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

Negative pressure wound therapy, area over 50 sq cm

CPT 97608the billing code this page is about

One session of suction-assisted wound treatment using a disposable single-use pump, including wound assessment and instruction, for a wound surface larger than 50 square centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $504 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,113 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $528. Most fall between $251 and $885 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,113
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 2,113 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
$137$298$504$809$1,154

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $1,154).

How the prices are spread

$75 – $102: 49 hospitals$75$102 – $137: 58 hospitals$137 – $185: 92 hospitals$137$185 – $250: 113 hospitals$250 – $337: 204 hospitals$250$337 – $454: 279 hospitals$454 – $612: 409 hospitals$454$612 – $825: 298 hospitals$825 – $1,113: 246 hospitals$825$1,113 – $1,501: 155 hospitals$1,113median $504price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,903 of 2,113 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$75$10249
$102$13758
$137$18592
$185$250113
$250$337204
$337$454279
$454$612409
$612$825298
$825$1,113246
$1,113$1,501155

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$504
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.21×

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 $504.

Alaska: median $738 across 10 hospitalsAK$738Maine: median $300 across 15 hospitalsME$300Vermont: median $311 across 11 hospitalsVT$311New Hampshire: median $392 across 10 hospitalsNH$392Washington: median $548 across 54 hospitalsWA$548Idaho: median $532 across 18 hospitalsID$532Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $364 across 48 hospitalsMN$364Illinois: median $700 across 78 hospitalsIL$700Wisconsin: median $335 across 79 hospitalsWI$335Michigan: median $523 across 80 hospitalsMI$523New York: median $507 across 67 hospitalsNY$507Massachusetts: median $814 across 31 hospitalsMA$814Oregon: median $429 across 38 hospitalsOR$429Nevada: median $518 across 12 hospitalsNV$518Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $750 across 14 hospitalsSD$750Iowa: median $455 across 53 hospitalsIA$455Indiana: median $285 across 73 hospitalsIN$285Ohio: median $760 across 121 hospitalsOH$760Pennsylvania: median $480 across 67 hospitalsPA$480New Jersey: median $443 across 50 hospitalsNJ$443Connecticut: median $605 across 17 hospitalsCT$605Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $691 across 141 hospitalsCA$691Utah: median $582 across 29 hospitalsUT$582Colorado: median $639 across 44 hospitalsCO$639Nebraska: median $374 across 45 hospitalsNE$374Missouri: median $537 across 55 hospitalsMO$537Kentucky: median $520 across 41 hospitalsKY$520West Virginia: median $577 across 26 hospitalsWV$577Virginia: median $496 across 44 hospitalsVA$496Maryland: median $279 across 19 hospitalsMD$279Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $619 across 27 hospitalsAZ$619New Mexico: median $475 across 10 hospitalsNM$475Kansas: median $323 across 40 hospitalsKS$323Arkansas: median $333 across 16 hospitalsAR$333Tennessee: median $260 across 50 hospitalsTN$260North Carolina: median $476 across 45 hospitalsNC$476South Carolina: median $428 across 41 hospitalsSC$428Oklahoma: median $412 across 39 hospitalsOK$412Louisiana: median $265 across 29 hospitalsLA$265Mississippi: median $260 across 35 hospitalsMS$260Alabama: median $530 across 26 hospitalsAL$530Georgia: median $713 across 73 hospitalsGA$713Hawaii: median $967 across 12 hospitalsHI$967Texas: median $466 across 159 hospitalsTX$466Florida: median $581 across 87 hospitalsFL$581
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $504. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI12$967+92%$790 – $1,170
Massachusetts MA31$814+62%$454 – $1,250
Ohio OH121$760+51%$380 – $1,019
South Dakota SD14$750+49%$400 – $886
Alaska AK10$738+47%$574 – $858
Georgia GA73$713+42%$491 – $1,257
Illinois IL78$700+39%$149 – $980
California CA141$691+37%$368 – $1,154
Colorado CO44$639+27%$391 – $1,046
Arizona AZ27$619+23%$246 – $1,496
Connecticut CT17$605+20%$105 – $1,334
Utah UT29$582+15%$537 – $582
Florida FL87$581+15%$434 – $1,494
West Virginia WV26$577+15%$26 – $726
Washington WA54$548+9%$253 – $745
Missouri MO55$537+7%$323 – $900
Idaho ID18$532+6%$443 – $1,117
Alabama AL26$530+5%$322 – $595
Michigan MI80$523+4%$310 – $1,137
Kentucky KY41$520+3%$250 – $898
Nevada NV12$518+3%$442 – $1,445
New York NY67$507+1%$288 – $1,107
Virginia VA44$496−2%$128 – $721
Pennsylvania PA67$480−5%$290 – $746
North Carolina NC45$476−5%$346 – $623
New Mexico NM10$475−6%$172 – $504
Texas TX159$466−8%$267 – $674
Iowa IA53$455−10%$270 – $709
New Jersey NJ50$443−12%$187 – $533
Oregon OR38$429−15%$59 – $600
South Carolina SC41$428−15%$300 – $708
Oklahoma OK39$412−18%$272 – $673
New Hampshire NH10$392−22%$77 – $1,053
Nebraska NE45$374−26%$189 – $625
Minnesota MN48$364−28%$139 – $688
Wisconsin WI79$335−34%$244 – $885
Arkansas AR16$333−34%$206 – $437
Kansas KS40$323−36%$63 – $538
Vermont VT11$311−38%$66 – $565
Maine ME15$300−41%$169 – $540
Indiana IN73$285−43%$150 – $566
Maryland MD19$279−45%$177 – $616
Louisiana LA29$265−47%$133 – $509
Mississippi MS35$260−48%$80 – $511
Tennessee TN50$260−48%$75 – $569
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $504.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,630$523$267 – $895
Children’s30$877$317 – $1,746
Critical access446$424$159 – $782
Ownership
For-profit230$639$381 – $1,206
Government352$473$202 – $776
Non-profit1,524$502$247 – $868
System affiliation
Part of a system1,788$511$257 – $885
Independent325$471$197 – $857

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$915
Median cash price$504
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

1,513 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $532 and the average of the middle 60% is $547; most fall between $267 and $888.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,513 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
$162$300$532$826$1,154

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($162 vs $1,154).

Of the 1,607 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,513 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,113 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,254 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,113
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
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 — excluded83
Hospitals that filed this code2,254

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, area over 50 sq cm (CPT 97608) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97608-negative-pressure-wound-therapy-area-over-50-sq-cm