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

Removal of a foreign object from under the skin, simple

CPT 10120the billing code this page is about

A small cut is made to take out an object such as a splinter or glass fragment lodged under the skin; covers a simple removal.

Hospitals typically charge $425 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,034 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $455. Most fall between $204 and $895 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,034
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 3,034 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
$130$233$425$763$1,397

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($130 vs $1,397).

How the prices are spread

$96 – $131: 157 hospitals$96$131 – $180: 180 hospitals$180 – $246: 327 hospitals$180$246 – $337: 379 hospitals$337 – $462: 455 hospitals$337$462 – $633: 444 hospitals$633 – $866: 318 hospitals$633$866 – $1,186: 221 hospitals$1,186 – $1,624: 180 hospitals$1,186$1,624 – $2,223: 84 hospitals$1,624median $425price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,745 of 3,034 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$96$131157
$131$180180
$180$246327
$246$337379
$337$462455
$462$633444
$633$866318
$866$1,186221
$1,186$1,624180
$1,624$2,22384

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$425
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.02×

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 $425.

Alaska: median $516 across 16 hospitalsAK$516Maine: median $251 across 23 hospitalsME$251Vermont: median $365 across 12 hospitalsVT$365New Hampshire: median $262 across 20 hospitalsNH$262Washington: median $503 across 79 hospitalsWA$503Idaho: median $275 across 23 hospitalsID$275Montana: median $238 across 33 hospitalsMT$238North Dakota: median $410 across 28 hospitalsND$410Minnesota: median $390 across 100 hospitalsMN$390Illinois: median $429 across 133 hospitalsIL$429Wisconsin: median $387 across 101 hospitalsWI$387Michigan: median $358 across 92 hospitalsMI$358New York: median $473 across 102 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $480 across 50 hospitalsMA$480Oregon: median $276 across 55 hospitalsOR$276Nevada: median $442 across 19 hospitalsNV$442Wyoming: median $302 across 15 hospitalsWY$302South Dakota: median $381 across 38 hospitalsSD$381Iowa: median $275 across 91 hospitalsIA$275Indiana: median $322 across 76 hospitalsIN$322Ohio: median $651 across 139 hospitalsOH$651Pennsylvania: median $480 across 124 hospitalsPA$480New Jersey: median $532 across 55 hospitalsNJ$532Connecticut: median $570 across 20 hospitalsCT$570Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $988 across 173 hospitalsCA$988Utah: median $2,539 across 33 hospitalsUT$2,539Colorado: median $381 across 59 hospitalsCO$381Nebraska: median $337 across 75 hospitalsNE$337Missouri: median $399 across 75 hospitalsMO$399Kentucky: median $371 across 53 hospitalsKY$371West Virginia: median $388 across 40 hospitalsWV$388Virginia: median $518 across 56 hospitalsVA$518Maryland: median $319 across 12 hospitalsMD$319Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $228 across 38 hospitalsAZ$228New Mexico: median $428 across 27 hospitalsNM$428Kansas: median $220 across 85 hospitalsKS$220Arkansas: median $235 across 39 hospitalsAR$235Tennessee: median $224 across 61 hospitalsTN$224North Carolina: median $429 across 68 hospitalsNC$429South Carolina: median $568 across 46 hospitalsSC$568Oklahoma: median $330 across 68 hospitalsOK$330Louisiana: median $278 across 51 hospitalsLA$278Mississippi: median $185 across 53 hospitalsMS$185Alabama: median $425 across 43 hospitalsAL$425Georgia: median $713 across 101 hospitalsGA$713Hawaii: median $872 across 16 hospitalsHI$872Texas: median $532 across 188 hospitalsTX$532Florida: median $966 across 115 hospitalsFL$966
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $425. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT33$2,539+497%$389 – $2,987
California CA173$988+133%$367 – $2,055
Florida FL115$966+127%$422 – $1,654
Hawaii HI16$872+105%$527 – $954
Georgia GA101$713+68%$230 – $1,522
Ohio OH139$651+53%$334 – $885
Connecticut CT20$570+34%$289 – $635
South Carolina SC46$568+34%$361 – $1,352
New Jersey NJ55$532+25%$442 – $3,986
Texas TX188$532+25%$281 – $971
Virginia VA56$518+22%$168 – $691
Alaska AK16$516+21%$226 – $749
Washington WA79$503+18%$251 – $896
Pennsylvania PA124$480+13%$220 – $864
Massachusetts MA50$480+13%$236 – $719
New York NY102$473+11%$182 – $928
Nevada NV19$442+4%$344 – $1,256
North Carolina NC68$429+1%$248 – $758
Illinois IL133$429+1%$215 – $954
New Mexico NM27$428+1%$199 – $1,087
Alabama AL43$4250%$171 – $1,339
North Dakota ND28$410−3%$270 – $642
Missouri MO75$399−6%$222 – $838
Minnesota MN100$390−8%$209 – $598
West Virginia WV40$388−9%$200 – $490
Wisconsin WI101$387−9%$210 – $613
Colorado CO59$381−10%$184 – $671
South Dakota SD38$381−10%$239 – $588
Kentucky KY53$371−13%$166 – $566
Vermont VT12$365−14%$118 – $1,238
Michigan MI92$358−16%$185 – $822
Nebraska NE75$337−21%$242 – $474
Oklahoma OK68$330−22%$142 – $695
Indiana IN76$322−24%$225 – $671
Maryland MD12$319−25%$244 – $529
Wyoming WY15$302−29%$128 – $325
Louisiana LA51$278−34%$147 – $454
Oregon OR55$276−35%$159 – $450
Iowa IA91$275−35%$146 – $439
Idaho ID23$275−35%$191 – $1,117
New Hampshire NH20$262−38%$116 – $374
Maine ME23$251−41%$100 – $545
Montana MT33$238−44%$135 – $392
Arkansas AR39$235−45%$192 – $535
Arizona AZ38$228−46%$172 – $1,015
Tennessee TN61$224−47%$120 – $594
Kansas KS85$220−48%$131 – $480
Mississippi MS53$185−56%$100 – $591
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $425.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,056$485$236 – $1,071
Children’s52$593$226 – $1,112
Critical access918$292$156 – $554
Ownership
For-profit324$591$254 – $1,412
Government623$306$168 – $572
Non-profit2,079$445$211 – $900
System affiliation
Part of a system2,412$461$219 – $966
Independent622$304$159 – $582

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$733
Median cash price$425
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

2,247 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $466 and the average of the middle 60% is $504; most fall between $224 and $960.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,247 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
$151$261$466$847$1,389

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($151 vs $1,389).

Of the 2,405 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,247 gave a usable cash price; 60 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,034 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,252 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,034
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here97
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded113
Hospitals that filed this code3,252

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 Remove Foreign Body Simple.

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, “Removal of a foreign object from under the skin, simple (CPT 10120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10120-removal-of-a-foreign-object-from-under-the-skin-simple