# Negative pressure wound therapy, large wound in Savannah, GA

Billing code `97606`. Prices for this code at 7 hospitals within 35 miles of Savannah, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/savannah/negative-pressure-wound-therapy-large-wound

HC NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DME >50 SQ CM

**Where this is done matters more than which hospital:** Negative pressure wound therapy, large wound is a procedure a doctor's office can perform, and Medicare pays about 8.7x more for it at a hospital outpatient department than in an office. Every price below is a hospital's, and excludes the doctor's separate bill. Do not quote these as the cost of the procedure without saying which setting they describe.

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 4 publish a facility charge; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $74 |
| Typical | $382 |
| Highest reported | $436 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH (5.6 mi) | 1/5 | $74 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $336 | $47 | $1,026 | 69 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD (30.9 mi) | not rated | $142 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $329 | $136 | $481 | 13 |
| Liberty Regional Medical Center | HINESVILLE (30.4 mi) | not rated | $202 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $907 | $195 | $907 | 6 |
| Coastal Carolina Hospital | HARDEEVILLE, SC (15.2 mi) | 4/5 | $382 | $382 | not mentioned | $176 | $49 | $722 | 44 |
| Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center | HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC (27.7 mi) | 2/5 | $382 | $382 | not mentioned | $176 | $49 | $847 | 44 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH (3.0 mi) | 2/5 | $436 | $436 | not mentioned | $883 | $356 | $968 | 8 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH (5.7 mi) | 2/5 | $436 | $436 | not mentioned | $883 | $356 | $968 | 8 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 2 of the 7 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 5 it is higher.

2 of these 7 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Coastal Carolina Hospital, Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center.

## Others in physical & occupational therapy

- [Therapeutic exercise, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/therapeutic-exercise-15-minutes) -- 107 hospitals, typically $53
- [Hands-on manual therapy, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hands-on-manual-therapy-15-minutes) -- 107 hospitals, typically $57
- [Neuromuscular retraining, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neuromuscular-retraining-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $52
- [Walking and gait training, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/walking-and-gait-training-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $44
- [Therapy using everyday activities, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/therapy-using-everyday-activities-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $57
- [Self-care and daily living training, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/self-care-and-daily-living-training-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $46
- [Physical therapy evaluation, low complexity](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/physical-therapy-evaluation-low-complexity) -- 104 hospitals, typically $137
- [Physical therapy evaluation, moderate complexity](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/physical-therapy-evaluation-moderate-complexity) -- 104 hospitals, typically $134

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-03-01 to 2026-04-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.