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Procedure price report · Incision and drainage, skin and subcutaneous tissue

Acne surgery to open and drain blemishes

CPT 10040the billing code this page is about

The doctor opens and clears out pimples, blackheads, cysts or pustules on the skin using a needle, blade or extraction instrument.

Hospitals typically charge $200 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,239 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $207. Most fall between $103 and $342 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,239
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,239 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
$76$122$200$303$459

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $459).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $63: 39 hospitals$50$63 – $81: 42 hospitals$81 – $103: 111 hospitals$81$103 – $132: 88 hospitals$132 – $168: 142 hospitals$132$168 – $215: 188 hospitals$215 – $274: 207 hospitals$215$274 – $350: 124 hospitals$350 – $446: 110 hospitals$350$446 – $569: 66 hospitals$446median $200price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,117 of 1,239 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$6339
$63$8142
$81$103111
$103$13288
$132$168142
$168$215188
$215$274207
$274$350124
$350$446110
$446$56966

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$200
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.98×

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 $200.

Alaska: median $352 across 11 hospitalsAK$352Maine: median $160 across 14 hospitalsME$160Vermont: median $158 across 10 hospitalsVT$158New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $221 across 53 hospitalsWA$221Idaho: median $237 across 16 hospitalsID$237Montana: median $154 across 21 hospitalsMT$154North Dakota: median $236 across 13 hospitalsND$236Minnesota: median $174 across 49 hospitalsMN$174Illinois: median $175 across 41 hospitalsIL$175Wisconsin: median $182 across 58 hospitalsWI$182Michigan: median $148 across 41 hospitalsMI$148New York: median $235 across 66 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: median $254 across 18 hospitalsMA$254Oregon: median $209 across 34 hospitalsOR$209Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $229 across 15 hospitalsSD$229Iowa: median $183 across 50 hospitalsIA$183Indiana: median $232 across 22 hospitalsIN$232Ohio: median $296 across 56 hospitalsOH$296Pennsylvania: median $233 across 59 hospitalsPA$233New Jersey: median $266 across 37 hospitalsNJ$266Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $342 across 63 hospitalsCA$342Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $224 across 17 hospitalsCO$224Nebraska: median $207 across 39 hospitalsNE$207Missouri: median $144 across 27 hospitalsMO$144Kentucky: median $146 across 15 hospitalsKY$146West Virginia: median $229 across 25 hospitalsWV$229Virginia: median $223 across 33 hospitalsVA$223Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $132 across 35 hospitalsKS$132Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $84 across 14 hospitalsTN$84North Carolina: median $95 across 18 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $368 across 29 hospitalsSC$368Oklahoma: median $86 across 19 hospitalsOK$86Louisiana: median $86 across 22 hospitalsLA$86Mississippi: median $137 across 16 hospitalsMS$137Alabama: median $186 across 11 hospitalsAL$186Georgia: median $148 across 12 hospitalsGA$148Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $207 across 53 hospitalsTX$207Florida: median $232 across 42 hospitalsFL$232
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $200. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC29$368+84%$176 – $429
Alaska AK11$352+76%$317 – $438
California CA63$342+71%$172 – $407
Ohio OH56$296+48%$98 – $396
New Jersey NJ37$266+33%$220 – $4,881
Massachusetts MA18$254+27%$143 – $346
Idaho ID16$237+18%$110 – $556
North Dakota ND13$236+18%$185 – $306
New York NY66$235+17%$127 – $432
Pennsylvania PA59$233+16%$88 – $289
Indiana IN22$232+16%$116 – $355
Florida FL42$232+16%$213 – $539
South Dakota SD15$229+14%$142 – $259
West Virginia WV25$229+14%$49 – $262
Colorado CO17$224+12%$149 – $1,263
Virginia VA33$223+11%$58 – $475
Washington WA53$221+10%$110 – $417
Oregon OR34$209+5%$150 – $491
Texas TX53$207+3%$142 – $248
Nebraska NE39$207+3%$140 – $268
Alabama AL11$186−7%$128 – $303
Iowa IA50$183−8%$83 – $270
Wisconsin WI58$182−9%$158 – $334
Illinois IL41$175−13%$99 – $270
Minnesota MN49$174−13%$116 – $256
Maine ME14$160−20%$98 – $197
Vermont VT10$158−21%$110 – $370
Montana MT21$154−23%$110 – $241
Michigan MI41$148−26%$74 – $223
Georgia GA12$148−26%$94 – $2,041
Kentucky KY15$146−27%$98 – $178
Missouri MO27$144−28%$85 – $186
Mississippi MS16$137−32%$106 – $161
Kansas KS35$132−34%$86 – $180
North Carolina NC18$95−53%$95 – $143
Oklahoma OK19$86−57%$82 – $240
Louisiana LA22$86−57%$63 – $102
Tennessee TN14$84−58%$80 – $150
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $200.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care806$220$104 – $387
Children’s24$255$101 – $327
Critical access408$177$99 – $274
Ownership
For-profit74$218$99 – $539
Government263$174$95 – $246
Non-profit901$214$110 – $368
System affiliation
Part of a system985$213$106 – $358
Independent254$164$94 – $289

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$284
Median cash price$200
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

804 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $207 and the average of the middle 60% is $218; most fall between $111 and $384.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 804 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
$84$129$207$342$475

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($84 vs $475).

Of the 879 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 804 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,239 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,339 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,239
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,339

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Incision and drainage, skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Extraction.

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, “Acne surgery to open and drain blemishes (CPT 10040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10040-acne-surgery-to-open-and-drain-blemishes