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Skin biopsy, one lesion (older code)

CPT 11100the billing code this page is about

Removal of a sample of skin, tissue under the skin, or mucous membrane from a single spot for laboratory examination; this code was replaced by newer biopsy codes.

Hospitals typically charge $181 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 295 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $195. Most fall between $89 and $377 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
295
States
41
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 295 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
$67$104$181$315$487

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $487).

How the prices are spread

$53 – $69: 22 hospitals$53$69 – $88: 21 hospitals$88 – $114: 32 hospitals$88$114 – $146: 34 hospitals$146 – $188: 28 hospitals$146$188 – $242: 30 hospitals$242 – $312: 39 hospitals$242$312 – $401: 30 hospitals$401 – $516: 17 hospitals$401$516 – $664: 14 hospitals$516median $181price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (267 of 295 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$53$6922
$69$8821
$88$11432
$114$14634
$146$18828
$188$24230
$242$31239
$312$40130
$401$51617
$516$66414

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $181.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $270 across 21 hospitalsIL$270Wisconsin: median $270 across 12 hospitalsWI$270Michigan: median $141 across 15 hospitalsMI$141New York: median $181 across 17 hospitalsNY$181Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $181 across 21 hospitalsIA$181Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $393 across 11 hospitalsPA$393New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $202 across 13 hospitalsCO$202Nebraska: median $209 across 18 hospitalsNE$209Missouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $211 across 16 hospitalsKS$211Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $67 across 16 hospitalsOK$67Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $114 across 12 hospitalsMS$114Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $353 across 12 hospitalsGA$353Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $168 across 12 hospitalsTX$168Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $181. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA11$393+117%$111 – $393
Georgia GA12$353+95%$132 – $391
Wisconsin WI12$270+50%$270 – $270
Illinois IL21$270+50%$77 – $574
Kansas KS16$211+17%$126 – $344
Nebraska NE18$209+16%$159 – $344
Colorado CO13$202+12%$173 – $252
New York NY17$1810%$50 – $480
Iowa IA21$1810%$83 – $315
Texas TX12$168−7%$101 – $280
Michigan MI15$141−22%$110 – $270
Mississippi MS12$114−37%$104 – $215
Oklahoma OK16$67−63%$67 – $382
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $181.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care154$202$88 – $420
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access136$168$95 – $270
Ownership
For-profit29$133$77 – $522
Government80$179$99 – $291
Non-profit185$202$78 – $382
System affiliation
Part of a system203$204$98 – $382
Independent92$137$78 – $353

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$291
Median cash price$181
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $197 and the average of the middle 60% is $198; most fall between $77 and $382.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 199 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
$67$107$197$322$522

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $522).

Of the 226 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 199 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 4 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

295 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 337 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted295
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code337

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as All Outpatient.

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, “Skin biopsy, one lesion (older code) (CPT 11100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11100-skin-biopsy-one-lesion-older-code