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

Drainage of a blood or fluid collection under the skin

CPT 10140the billing code this page is about

A cut is made in the skin to drain a hematoma, seroma, or other fluid pocket that has built up under the skin.

Hospitals typically charge $1,494 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,009 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,508. Most fall between $319 and $3,166 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,009
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 3,009 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
$197$416$1,494$2,729$4,606

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($197 vs $4,606).

How the prices are spread

$141 – $205: 159 hospitals$141$205 – $298: 248 hospitals$298 – $434: 211 hospitals$298$434 – $631: 199 hospitals$631 – $918: 183 hospitals$631$918 – $1,335: 255 hospitals$1,335 – $1,942: 428 hospitals$1,335$1,942 – $2,825: 459 hospitals$2,825 – $4,110: 333 hospitals$2,825$4,110 – $5,980: 239 hospitals$4,110median $1,494price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,714 of 3,009 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$141$205159
$205$298248
$298$434211
$434$631199
$631$918183
$918$1,335255
$1,335$1,942428
$1,942$2,825459
$2,825$4,110333
$4,110$5,980239

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,494
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $1,494.

Alaska: median $685 across 16 hospitalsAK$685Maine: median $294 across 22 hospitalsME$294Vermont: median $481 across 12 hospitalsVT$481New Hampshire: median $181 across 17 hospitalsNH$181Washington: median $1,025 across 73 hospitalsWA$1,025Idaho: median $1,374 across 23 hospitalsID$1,374Montana: median $286 across 32 hospitalsMT$286North Dakota: median $530 across 27 hospitalsND$530Minnesota: median $568 across 99 hospitalsMN$568Illinois: median $1,329 across 126 hospitalsIL$1,329Wisconsin: median $764 across 97 hospitalsWI$764Michigan: median $1,441 across 94 hospitalsMI$1,441New York: median $2,018 across 110 hospitalsNY$2,018Massachusetts: median $1,786 across 48 hospitalsMA$1,786Oregon: median $346 across 53 hospitalsOR$346Nevada: median $1,231 across 20 hospitalsNV$1,231Wyoming: median $355 across 14 hospitalsWY$355South Dakota: median $470 across 24 hospitalsSD$470Iowa: median $394 across 77 hospitalsIA$394Indiana: median $1,028 across 79 hospitalsIN$1,028Ohio: median $2,219 across 140 hospitalsOH$2,219Pennsylvania: median $1,897 across 122 hospitalsPA$1,897New Jersey: median $2,162 across 58 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $1,044 across 21 hospitalsCT$1,044Rhode Island: median $1,847 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,847California: median $2,553 across 183 hospitalsCA$2,553Utah: median $2,369 across 31 hospitalsUT$2,369Colorado: median $1,053 across 59 hospitalsCO$1,053Nebraska: median $394 across 70 hospitalsNE$394Missouri: median $1,052 across 75 hospitalsMO$1,052Kentucky: median $1,176 across 47 hospitalsKY$1,176West Virginia: median $1,555 across 39 hospitalsWV$1,555Virginia: median $1,249 across 56 hospitalsVA$1,249Maryland: median $534 across 16 hospitalsMD$534Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $725 across 49 hospitalsAZ$725New Mexico: median $1,647 across 29 hospitalsNM$1,647Kansas: median $267 across 81 hospitalsKS$267Arkansas: median $600 across 35 hospitalsAR$600Tennessee: median $552 across 58 hospitalsTN$552North Carolina: median $1,384 across 77 hospitalsNC$1,384South Carolina: median $2,681 across 45 hospitalsSC$2,681Oklahoma: median $1,089 across 65 hospitalsOK$1,089Louisiana: median $1,121 across 48 hospitalsLA$1,121Mississippi: median $832 across 53 hospitalsMS$832Alabama: median $1,700 across 41 hospitalsAL$1,700Georgia: median $2,568 across 95 hospitalsGA$2,568Hawaii: median $2,723 across 17 hospitalsHI$2,723Texas: median $2,225 across 212 hospitalsTX$2,225Florida: median $3,109 across 107 hospitalsFL$3,109
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,494. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL107$3,109+108%$1,715 – $5,187
Hawaii HI17$2,723+82%$1,906 – $3,630
South Carolina SC45$2,681+79%$740 – $3,215
Georgia GA95$2,568+72%$813 – $5,400
California CA183$2,553+71%$1,216 – $5,057
Utah UT31$2,369+59%$1,802 – $2,632
Texas TX212$2,225+49%$927 – $4,634
Ohio OH140$2,219+48%$1,292 – $3,749
New Jersey NJ58$2,162+45%$1,793 – $5,339
New York NY110$2,018+35%$346 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA122$1,897+27%$977 – $2,916
Rhode Island RI10$1,847+24%$401 – $2,758
Massachusetts MA48$1,786+20%$556 – $2,234
Alabama AL41$1,700+14%$796 – $5,187
New Mexico NM29$1,647+10%$218 – $3,579
West Virginia WV39$1,555+4%$809 – $2,844
Michigan MI94$1,441−4%$178 – $2,487
North Carolina NC77$1,384−7%$826 – $1,969
Idaho ID23$1,374−8%$216 – $4,347
Illinois IL126$1,329−11%$309 – $3,254
Virginia VA56$1,249−16%$625 – $2,135
Nevada NV20$1,231−18%$351 – $2,170
Kentucky KY47$1,176−21%$212 – $3,108
Louisiana LA48$1,121−25%$408 – $1,888
Oklahoma OK65$1,089−27%$246 – $2,372
Colorado CO59$1,053−30%$280 – $2,126
Missouri MO75$1,052−30%$229 – $2,795
Connecticut CT21$1,044−30%$635 – $1,965
Indiana IN79$1,028−31%$308 – $2,746
Washington WA73$1,025−31%$306 – $3,075
Mississippi MS53$832−44%$245 – $2,120
Wisconsin WI97$764−49%$391 – $1,804
Arizona AZ49$725−51%$192 – $3,617
Alaska AK16$685−54%$322 – $2,753
Arkansas AR35$600−60%$265 – $1,613
Minnesota MN99$568−62%$272 – $1,777
Tennessee TN58$552−63%$451 – $1,960
Maryland MD16$534−64%$339 – $2,050
North Dakota ND27$530−65%$323 – $2,047
Vermont VT12$481−68%$140 – $2,541
South Dakota SD24$470−69%$319 – $2,508
Nebraska NE70$394−74%$292 – $1,209
Iowa IA77$394−74%$207 – $2,269
Wyoming WY14$355−76%$265 – $988
Oregon OR53$346−77%$250 – $1,312
Maine ME22$294−80%$120 – $1,629
Montana MT32$286−81%$178 – $540
Kansas KS81$267−82%$181 – $1,555
New Hampshire NH17$181−88%$138 – $1,180
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 $1,494.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,128$1,797$600 – $3,607
Children’s44$1,910$383 – $3,459
Critical access828$410$215 – $1,973
Ownership
For-profit338$2,221$859 – $6,037
Government581$613$225 – $2,246
Non-profit2,081$1,605$365 – $3,160
System affiliation
Part of a system2,422$1,675$402 – $3,332
Independent587$642$216 – $2,245

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,536
Median cash price$1,494
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

2,184 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,668 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,685; most fall between $469 and $3,215.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,184 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
$234$629$1,668$2,884$4,580

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($234 vs $4,580).

Of the 2,369 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,184 gave a usable cash price; 85 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 99 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,009 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,264 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,009
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here128
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded117
Hospitals that filed this code3,264

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 I&D Hematoma Seroma/Fluid Collection.

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 blood or fluid collection under the skin (CPT 10140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10140-drainage-of-a-blood-or-fluid-collection-under-the-skin