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

Drainage of a skin abscess, complicated or multiple

CPT 10061the billing code this page is about

Cutting open and draining pus from a skin abscess when there are multiple abscesses or the drainage is complicated, such as needing packing or repeat entry.

Hospitals typically charge $474 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,983 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $514. Most fall between $263 and $914 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,983
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 2,983 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
$187$302$474$795$1,306

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($187 vs $1,306).

How the prices are spread

$141 – $183: 138 hospitals$141$183 – $238: 215 hospitals$238 – $310: 284 hospitals$238$310 – $404: 386 hospitals$404 – $526: 462 hospitals$404$526 – $685: 397 hospitals$685 – $892: 335 hospitals$685$892 – $1,161: 245 hospitals$1,161 – $1,511: 140 hospitals$1,161$1,511 – $1,967: 83 hospitals$1,511median $474price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,685 of 2,983 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$141$183138
$183$238215
$238$310284
$310$404386
$404$526462
$526$685397
$685$892335
$892$1,161245
$1,161$1,511140
$1,511$1,96783

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$474
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $474.

Alaska: median $490 across 16 hospitalsAK$490Maine: median $231 across 22 hospitalsME$231Vermont: median $418 across 12 hospitalsVT$418New Hampshire: median $223 across 18 hospitalsNH$223Washington: median $458 across 78 hospitalsWA$458Idaho: median $446 across 24 hospitalsID$446Montana: median $337 across 32 hospitalsMT$337North Dakota: median $437 across 24 hospitalsND$437Minnesota: median $436 across 97 hospitalsMN$436Illinois: median $592 across 132 hospitalsIL$592Wisconsin: median $423 across 84 hospitalsWI$423Michigan: median $348 across 93 hospitalsMI$348New York: median $507 across 103 hospitalsNY$507Massachusetts: median $492 across 48 hospitalsMA$492Oregon: median $460 across 54 hospitalsOR$460Nevada: median $389 across 17 hospitalsNV$389Wyoming: median $457 across 15 hospitalsWY$457South Dakota: median $462 across 33 hospitalsSD$462Iowa: median $382 across 87 hospitalsIA$382Indiana: median $566 across 78 hospitalsIN$566Ohio: median $550 across 138 hospitalsOH$550Pennsylvania: median $567 across 126 hospitalsPA$567New Jersey: median $533 across 56 hospitalsNJ$533Connecticut: median $593 across 21 hospitalsCT$593Rhode Island: median $525 across 10 hospitalsRI$525California: median $1,004 across 170 hospitalsCA$1,004Utah: median $584 across 31 hospitalsUT$584Colorado: median $470 across 57 hospitalsCO$470Nebraska: median $436 across 75 hospitalsNE$436Missouri: median $460 across 75 hospitalsMO$460Kentucky: median $461 across 61 hospitalsKY$461West Virginia: median $468 across 39 hospitalsWV$468Virginia: median $442 across 59 hospitalsVA$442Maryland: median $925 across 15 hospitalsMD$925Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $499 across 26 hospitalsAZ$499New Mexico: median $455 across 30 hospitalsNM$455Kansas: median $307 across 75 hospitalsKS$307Arkansas: median $409 across 38 hospitalsAR$409Tennessee: median $241 across 59 hospitalsTN$241North Carolina: median $450 across 73 hospitalsNC$450South Carolina: median $545 across 45 hospitalsSC$545Oklahoma: median $395 across 69 hospitalsOK$395Louisiana: median $317 across 49 hospitalsLA$317Mississippi: median $257 across 53 hospitalsMS$257Alabama: median $420 across 42 hospitalsAL$420Georgia: median $574 across 99 hospitalsGA$574Hawaii: median $577 across 18 hospitalsHI$577Texas: median $631 across 192 hospitalsTX$631Florida: median $965 across 109 hospitalsFL$965
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $474. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA170$1,004+112%$419 – $1,313
Florida FL109$965+104%$368 – $1,378
Maryland MD15$925+95%$632 – $1,724
Texas TX192$631+33%$327 – $938
Connecticut CT21$593+25%$359 – $693
Illinois IL132$592+25%$292 – $1,082
Utah UT31$584+23%$419 – $649
Hawaii HI18$577+22%$507 – $954
Georgia GA99$574+21%$270 – $1,362
Pennsylvania PA126$567+20%$254 – $1,243
Indiana IN78$566+19%$321 – $1,214
Ohio OH138$550+16%$368 – $831
South Carolina SC45$545+15%$220 – $2,298
New Jersey NJ56$533+12%$443 – $3,786
Rhode Island RI10$525+11%$426 – $664
New York NY103$507+7%$244 – $928
Arizona AZ26$499+5%$278 – $699
Massachusetts MA48$492+4%$326 – $722
Alaska AK16$490+3%$326 – $864
Colorado CO57$470−1%$260 – $723
West Virginia WV39$468−1%$339 – $584
South Dakota SD33$462−3%$397 – $694
Kentucky KY61$461−3%$274 – $998
Oregon OR54$460−3%$296 – $699
Missouri MO75$460−3%$272 – $706
Washington WA78$458−3%$349 – $762
Wyoming WY15$457−4%$226 – $528
New Mexico NM30$455−4%$209 – $1,106
North Carolina NC73$450−5%$314 – $612
Idaho ID24$446−6%$228 – $1,117
Virginia VA59$442−7%$158 – $696
North Dakota ND24$437−8%$331 – $649
Nebraska NE75$436−8%$341 – $596
Minnesota MN97$436−8%$308 – $707
Wisconsin WI84$423−11%$326 – $787
Alabama AL42$420−11%$233 – $1,100
Vermont VT12$418−12%$218 – $624
Arkansas AR38$409−14%$227 – $688
Oklahoma OK69$395−17%$193 – $727
Nevada NV17$389−18%$198 – $840
Iowa IA87$382−19%$234 – $571
Michigan MI93$348−27%$193 – $761
Montana MT32$337−29%$191 – $558
Louisiana LA49$317−33%$148 – $494
Kansas KS75$307−35%$205 – $616
Mississippi MS53$257−46%$136 – $531
Tennessee TN59$241−49%$155 – $490
Maine ME22$231−51%$171 – $342
New Hampshire NH18$223−53%$155 – $333
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 $474.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,037$532$286 – $1,025
Children’s61$768$315 – $1,759
Critical access877$391$220 – $631
Ownership
For-profit302$629$291 – $1,362
Government601$405$227 – $688
Non-profit2,072$494$278 – $925
System affiliation
Part of a system2,379$507$278 – $950
Independent604$401$221 – $739

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$815
Median cash price$474
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

2,192 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $533 and the average of the middle 60% is $562; most fall between $282 and $950.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,192 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
$198$328$533$851$1,290

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($198 vs $1,290).

Of the 2,364 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,192 gave a usable cash price; 69 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,983 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,216 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,983
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here104
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,216

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 PR Drain Skin Abscess Complic.

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, complicated or multiple (CPT 10061) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10061-drainage-of-a-skin-abscess-complicated-or-multiple