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

Drainage of a skin abscess or boil, simple

CPT 10060the billing code this page is about

The skin is cut open to drain pus from a single abscess, boil, or infected cyst; covers a simple or single drainage.

Hospitals typically charge $292 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,168 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $316. Most fall between $157 and $586 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,168
States
50
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 3,168 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
$107$180$292$484$846

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($107 vs $846).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $106: 149 hospitals$81$106 – $139: 210 hospitals$139 – $183: 293 hospitals$139$183 – $239: 432 hospitals$239 – $313: 444 hospitals$239$313 – $410: 420 hospitals$410 – $537: 351 hospitals$410$537 – $703: 252 hospitals$703 – $921: 190 hospitals$703$921 – $1,206: 112 hospitals$921median $292price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,853 of 3,168 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$106149
$106$139210
$139$183293
$183$239432
$239$313444
$313$410420
$410$537351
$537$703252
$703$921190
$921$1,206112

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$292
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $292.

Alaska: median $311 across 16 hospitalsAK$311Maine: median $171 across 22 hospitalsME$171Vermont: median $189 across 12 hospitalsVT$189New Hampshire: median $158 across 21 hospitalsNH$158Washington: median $299 across 80 hospitalsWA$299Idaho: median $207 across 23 hospitalsID$207Montana: median $202 across 33 hospitalsMT$202North Dakota: median $309 across 31 hospitalsND$309Minnesota: median $286 across 108 hospitalsMN$286Illinois: median $362 across 135 hospitalsIL$362Wisconsin: median $307 across 91 hospitalsWI$307Michigan: median $246 across 94 hospitalsMI$246New York: median $312 across 104 hospitalsNY$312Massachusetts: median $395 across 50 hospitalsMA$395Oregon: median $233 across 55 hospitalsOR$233Nevada: median $285 across 19 hospitalsNV$285Wyoming: median $247 across 15 hospitalsWY$247South Dakota: median $281 across 39 hospitalsSD$281Iowa: median $227 across 93 hospitalsIA$227Indiana: median $354 across 82 hospitalsIN$354Ohio: median $379 across 144 hospitalsOH$379Pennsylvania: median $334 across 128 hospitalsPA$334New Jersey: median $267 across 58 hospitalsNJ$267Connecticut: median $327 across 22 hospitalsCT$327Rhode Island: median $292 across 10 hospitalsRI$292California: median $505 across 186 hospitalsCA$505Utah: median $329 across 34 hospitalsUT$329Colorado: median $310 across 61 hospitalsCO$310Nebraska: median $254 across 79 hospitalsNE$254Missouri: median $254 across 80 hospitalsMO$254Kentucky: median $289 across 61 hospitalsKY$289West Virginia: median $241 across 42 hospitalsWV$241Virginia: median $334 across 60 hospitalsVA$334Maryland: median $762 across 19 hospitalsMD$762Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $198 across 42 hospitalsAZ$198New Mexico: median $326 across 30 hospitalsNM$326Kansas: median $189 across 85 hospitalsKS$189Arkansas: median $188 across 39 hospitalsAR$188Tennessee: median $152 across 60 hospitalsTN$152North Carolina: median $314 across 84 hospitalsNC$314South Carolina: median $411 across 46 hospitalsSC$411Oklahoma: median $209 across 71 hospitalsOK$209Louisiana: median $187 across 52 hospitalsLA$187Mississippi: median $132 across 54 hospitalsMS$132Alabama: median $282 across 43 hospitalsAL$282Georgia: median $387 across 106 hospitalsGA$387Hawaii: median $397 across 20 hospitalsHI$397Texas: median $435 across 203 hospitalsTX$435Florida: median $600 across 119 hospitalsFL$600
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $292. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD19$762+161%$308 – $1,586
Florida FL119$600+105%$191 – $1,047
California CA186$505+73%$252 – $1,016
Texas TX203$435+49%$175 – $632
South Carolina SC46$411+41%$224 – $2,189
Hawaii HI20$397+36%$267 – $475
Massachusetts MA50$395+35%$240 – $594
Georgia GA106$387+32%$155 – $836
Ohio OH144$379+30%$209 – $562
Illinois IL135$362+24%$181 – $641
Indiana IN82$354+21%$196 – $728
Pennsylvania PA128$334+14%$141 – $694
Virginia VA60$334+14%$108 – $470
Utah UT34$329+13%$291 – $408
Connecticut CT22$327+12%$244 – $549
New Mexico NM30$326+12%$184 – $595
North Carolina NC84$314+8%$194 – $438
New York NY104$312+7%$150 – $688
Alaska AK16$311+6%$229 – $626
Colorado CO61$310+6%$162 – $448
North Dakota ND31$309+6%$196 – $385
Wisconsin WI91$307+5%$199 – $390
Washington WA80$299+2%$179 – $482
Rhode Island RI10$2920%$220 – $664
Kentucky KY61$289−1%$159 – $624
Minnesota MN108$286−2%$176 – $414
Nevada NV19$285−2%$175 – $577
Alabama AL43$282−3%$123 – $677
South Dakota SD39$281−4%$155 – $413
New Jersey NJ58$267−8%$220 – $3,786
Nebraska NE79$254−13%$201 – $371
Missouri MO80$254−13%$141 – $471
Wyoming WY15$247−15%$111 – $321
Michigan MI94$246−16%$120 – $433
West Virginia WV42$241−18%$153 – $415
Oregon OR55$233−20%$161 – $383
Iowa IA93$227−22%$145 – $357
Oklahoma OK71$209−29%$105 – $441
Idaho ID23$207−29%$188 – $556
Montana MT33$202−31%$123 – $322
Arizona AZ42$198−32%$132 – $580
Kansas KS85$189−35%$130 – $322
Vermont VT12$189−35%$128 – $633
Arkansas AR39$188−36%$109 – $291
Louisiana LA52$187−36%$97 – $298
Maine ME22$171−41%$116 – $228
New Hampshire NH21$158−46%$77 – $243
Tennessee TN60$152−48%$86 – $330
Mississippi MS54$132−55%$71 – $285
Delaware DE7not 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 $292.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,144$343$177 – $688
Children’s67$358$240 – $731
Critical access948$232$130 – $375
Ownership
For-profit331$424$186 – $836
Government639$240$137 – $433
Non-profit2,189$307$162 – $575
System affiliation
Part of a system2,525$313$168 – $605
Independent643$242$130 – $438

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$488
Median cash price$292
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

2,369 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $342 and the average of the middle 60% is $353; most fall between $174 and $605.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,369 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
$119$199$342$553$836

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $836).

Of the 2,535 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,369 gave a usable cash price; 61 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,168 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,394 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,168
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here99
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,394

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 July 20, 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 Incision & Drainage Abscess Simple/Single.

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, “Drainage of a skin abscess or boil, simple (CPT 10060) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10060-drainage-of-a-skin-abscess-or-boil-simple