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Skin biopsy, each additional lesion (older code)

CPT 11101the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for a skin or mucous membrane sample taken from each additional separate spot in the same visit; this code was replaced by newer biopsy codes.

Hospitals typically charge $66 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 238 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $43 and $212 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
238
States
40
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 238 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
$34$45$66$164$351

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $351).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $35: 23 hospitals$26$35 – $47: 34 hospitals$47 – $62: 45 hospitals$47$62 – $84: 31 hospitals$84 – $112: 16 hospitals$84$112 – $150: 17 hospitals$150 – $201: 8 hospitals$150$201 – $269: 18 hospitals$269 – $360: 14 hospitals$269$360 – $483: 10 hospitals$360median $66price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (216 of 238 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$3523
$35$4734
$47$6245
$62$8431
$84$11216
$112$15017
$150$2018
$201$26918
$269$36014
$360$48310

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $66.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $133 across 21 hospitalsIL$133Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $56 across 14 hospitalsMI$56New York: median $77 across 10 hospitalsNY$77Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $66 across 18 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew 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 $46 across 10 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $116 across 11 hospitalsNE$116Missouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $60 across 15 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $34 across 12 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $65 across 12 hospitalsMS$65Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $222 across 11 hospitalsGA$222Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $66. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$222+235%$71 – $232
Illinois IL21$133+101%$43 – $244
Nebraska NE11$116+75%$67 – $120
New York NY10$77+16%$26 – $212
Iowa IA18$660%$54 – $109
Mississippi MS12$65−1%$59 – $115
Kansas KS15$60−9%$44 – $87
Michigan MI14$56−15%$32 – $152
Colorado CO10$46−31%$46 – $100
Oklahoma OK12$34−48%$34 – $34
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $66.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care129$71$43 – $300
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access104$64$40 – $120
Ownership
For-profit24$56$43 – $522
Government69$71$44 – $120
Non-profit144$65$40 – $230
System affiliation
Part of a system160$62$43 – $230
Independent78$72$44 – $191

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$66
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

154 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $85; most fall between $43 and $222.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 154 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
$34$45$63$208$352

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $352).

Of the 175 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 154 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

238 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 276 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted238
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code276

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Skin biopsy, each additional lesion (older code) (CPT 11101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11101-skin-biopsy-each-additional-lesion-older-code