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

Removal of a foreign object from under the skin, complicated

CPT 10121the billing code this page is about

A more involved incision to remove an object embedded in the tissue under the skin, such as one that is deep or hard to reach.

Hospitals typically charge $1,553 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,440 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,590. Most fall between $486 and $3,254 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,440
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 2,440 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
$310$583$1,553$2,905$4,881

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($310 vs $4,881).

How the prices are spread

$208 – $294: 98 hospitals$208$294 – $414: 164 hospitals$414 – $585: 227 hospitals$414$585 – $825: 244 hospitals$825 – $1,164: 180 hospitals$825$1,164 – $1,643: 222 hospitals$1,643 – $2,319: 383 hospitals$1,643$2,319 – $3,272: 316 hospitals$3,272 – $4,618: 202 hospitals$3,272$4,618 – $6,517: 161 hospitals$4,618median $1,553price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,197 of 2,440 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$208$29498
$294$414164
$414$585227
$585$825244
$825$1,164180
$1,164$1,643222
$1,643$2,319383
$2,319$3,272316
$3,272$4,618202
$4,618$6,517161

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,553
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $1,553.

Alaska: median $1,244 across 15 hospitalsAK$1,244Maine: median $631 across 20 hospitalsME$631Vermont: median $721 across 12 hospitalsVT$721New Hampshire: median $309 across 15 hospitalsNH$309Washington: median $1,227 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,227Idaho: median $2,157 across 21 hospitalsID$2,157Montana: median $427 across 29 hospitalsMT$427North Dakota: median $1,664 across 19 hospitalsND$1,664Minnesota: median $851 across 79 hospitalsMN$851Illinois: median $1,367 across 107 hospitalsIL$1,367Wisconsin: median $792 across 89 hospitalsWI$792Michigan: median $1,535 across 78 hospitalsMI$1,535New York: median $1,917 across 88 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $1,906 across 40 hospitalsMA$1,906Oregon: median $533 across 51 hospitalsOR$533Nevada: median $964 across 14 hospitalsNV$964Wyoming: median $590 across 11 hospitalsWY$590South Dakota: median $728 across 19 hospitalsSD$728Iowa: median $665 across 68 hospitalsIA$665Indiana: median $843 across 60 hospitalsIN$843Ohio: median $1,688 across 111 hospitalsOH$1,688Pennsylvania: median $1,904 across 104 hospitalsPA$1,904New Jersey: median $2,163 across 47 hospitalsNJ$2,163Connecticut: median $1,884 across 21 hospitalsCT$1,884Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 139 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: median $3,889 across 28 hospitalsUT$3,889Colorado: median $817 across 54 hospitalsCO$817Nebraska: median $650 across 62 hospitalsNE$650Missouri: median $732 across 60 hospitalsMO$732Kentucky: median $1,210 across 41 hospitalsKY$1,210West Virginia: median $1,533 across 34 hospitalsWV$1,533Virginia: median $1,671 across 55 hospitalsVA$1,671Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $923 across 30 hospitalsAZ$923New Mexico: median $794 across 23 hospitalsNM$794Kansas: median $491 across 60 hospitalsKS$491Arkansas: median $1,446 across 21 hospitalsAR$1,446Tennessee: median $717 across 36 hospitalsTN$717North Carolina: median $1,745 across 54 hospitalsNC$1,745South Carolina: median $2,444 across 44 hospitalsSC$2,444Oklahoma: median $1,039 across 50 hospitalsOK$1,039Louisiana: median $1,141 across 42 hospitalsLA$1,141Mississippi: median $793 across 45 hospitalsMS$793Alabama: median $2,007 across 32 hospitalsAL$2,007Georgia: median $2,987 across 77 hospitalsGA$2,987Hawaii: median $3,869 across 13 hospitalsHI$3,869Texas: median $2,113 across 153 hospitalsTX$2,113Florida: median $3,549 across 90 hospitalsFL$3,549
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,553. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT28$3,889+150%$1,677 – $4,719
Hawaii HI13$3,869+149%$1,076 – $4,712
Florida FL90$3,549+129%$751 – $6,593
California CA139$3,323+114%$1,190 – $5,902
Georgia GA77$2,987+92%$922 – $7,958
South Carolina SC44$2,444+57%$1,414 – $3,384
New Jersey NJ47$2,163+39%$1,795 – $5,741
Idaho ID21$2,157+39%$509 – $4,347
Texas TX153$2,113+36%$757 – $3,520
Alabama AL32$2,007+29%$812 – $2,631
New York NY88$1,917+23%$339 – $3,771
Massachusetts MA40$1,906+23%$679 – $2,995
Pennsylvania PA104$1,904+23%$472 – $3,053
Connecticut CT21$1,884+21%$539 – $5,247
North Carolina NC54$1,745+12%$1,133 – $2,930
Ohio OH111$1,688+9%$956 – $3,160
Virginia VA55$1,671+8%$747 – $3,125
North Dakota ND19$1,664+7%$687 – $2,569
Michigan MI78$1,535−1%$337 – $3,374
West Virginia WV34$1,533−1%$298 – $2,744
Arkansas AR21$1,446−7%$427 – $3,219
Illinois IL107$1,367−12%$529 – $3,254
Alaska AK15$1,244−20%$692 – $3,174
Washington WA63$1,227−21%$543 – $2,515
Kentucky KY41$1,210−22%$409 – $2,959
Louisiana LA42$1,141−26%$561 – $1,927
Oklahoma OK50$1,039−33%$467 – $2,018
Nevada NV14$964−38%$399 – $3,304
Arizona AZ30$923−41%$572 – $6,516
Minnesota MN79$851−45%$413 – $1,937
Indiana IN60$843−46%$400 – $3,544
Colorado CO54$817−47%$434 – $1,620
New Mexico NM23$794−49%$384 – $2,879
Mississippi MS45$793−49%$226 – $1,433
Wisconsin WI89$792−49%$486 – $1,594
Missouri MO60$732−53%$371 – $2,020
South Dakota SD19$728−53%$370 – $2,944
Vermont VT12$721−54%$311 – $3,547
Tennessee TN36$717−54%$436 – $2,059
Iowa IA68$665−57%$349 – $1,829
Nebraska NE62$650−58%$512 – $1,893
Maine ME20$631−59%$336 – $1,629
Wyoming WY11$590−62%$328 – $735
Oregon OR51$533−66%$385 – $2,368
Kansas KS60$491−68%$289 – $1,691
Montana MT29$427−73%$269 – $1,257
New Hampshire NH15$309−80%$144 – $1,333
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,553.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,683$1,897$688 – $3,644
Children’s48$1,789$535 – $3,749
Critical access702$643$338 – $1,984
Ownership
For-profit237$2,157$720 – $5,135
Government490$821$385 – $2,437
Non-profit1,706$1,646$507 – $3,323
System affiliation
Part of a system1,933$1,735$546 – $3,402
Independent507$792$355 – $2,342

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,626
Median cash price$1,553
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

1,808 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,750 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,865; most fall between $604 and $3,520.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,808 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
$371$741$1,750$3,187$5,035

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($371 vs $5,035).

Of the 1,956 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,808 gave a usable cash price; 57 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,440 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,636 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,440
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here90
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,636

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 & Removal Foreign Body Subq Tiss Comp.

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, complicated (CPT 10121) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10121-removal-of-a-foreign-object-from-under-the-skin-complicated