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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue

Shave-type skin biopsy, one lesion

CPT 11102the billing code this page is about

Removal of a thin surface layer sample of skin from a single spot, using a blade to shave or scoop the tissue, for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $269 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,396 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $289. Most fall between $134 and $527 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,396
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,396 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
$87$155$269$457$746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $746).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 79 hospitals$58$76 – $101: 104 hospitals$101 – $134: 176 hospitals$101$134 – $177: 215 hospitals$177 – $234: 318 hospitals$177$234 – $310: 367 hospitals$310 – $411: 326 hospitals$310$411 – $544: 232 hospitals$544 – $720: 202 hospitals$544$720 – $953: 141 hospitals$720median $269price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,160 of 2,396 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$7679
$76$101104
$101$134176
$134$177215
$177$234318
$234$310367
$310$411326
$411$544232
$544$720202
$720$953141

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$269
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.65×

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 $269.

Alaska: median $352 across 15 hospitalsAK$352Maine: median $204 across 20 hospitalsME$204Vermont: median $160 across 12 hospitalsVT$160New Hampshire: median $94 across 13 hospitalsNH$94Washington: median $251 across 66 hospitalsWA$251Idaho: median $164 across 18 hospitalsID$164Montana: median $151 across 27 hospitalsMT$151North Dakota: median $239 across 24 hospitalsND$239Minnesota: median $206 across 85 hospitalsMN$206Illinois: median $255 across 97 hospitalsIL$255Wisconsin: median $177 across 96 hospitalsWI$177Michigan: median $255 across 81 hospitalsMI$255New York: median $361 across 91 hospitalsNY$361Massachusetts: median $326 across 43 hospitalsMA$326Oregon: median $161 across 49 hospitalsOR$161Nevada: median $186 across 13 hospitalsNV$186Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $250 across 24 hospitalsSD$250Iowa: median $179 across 74 hospitalsIA$179Indiana: median $301 across 59 hospitalsIN$301Ohio: median $304 across 129 hospitalsOH$304Pennsylvania: median $415 across 105 hospitalsPA$415New Jersey: median $423 across 56 hospitalsNJ$423Connecticut: median $405 across 18 hospitalsCT$405Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $529 across 134 hospitalsCA$529Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $263 across 48 hospitalsCO$263Nebraska: median $201 across 60 hospitalsNE$201Missouri: median $228 across 64 hospitalsMO$228Kentucky: median $251 across 30 hospitalsKY$251West Virginia: median $262 across 34 hospitalsWV$262Virginia: median $220 across 57 hospitalsVA$220Maryland: median $591 across 11 hospitalsMD$591Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $220 across 26 hospitalsAZ$220New Mexico: median $366 across 18 hospitalsNM$366Kansas: median $189 across 58 hospitalsKS$189Arkansas: median $216 across 20 hospitalsAR$216Tennessee: median $149 across 37 hospitalsTN$149North Carolina: median $207 across 56 hospitalsNC$207South Carolina: median $324 across 39 hospitalsSC$324Oklahoma: median $327 across 42 hospitalsOK$327Louisiana: median $260 across 36 hospitalsLA$260Mississippi: median $180 across 37 hospitalsMS$180Alabama: median $277 across 24 hospitalsAL$277Georgia: median $560 across 77 hospitalsGA$560Hawaii: median $314 across 13 hospitalsHI$314Texas: median $360 across 141 hospitalsTX$360Florida: median $484 across 90 hospitalsFL$484
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $269. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD11$591+120%$319 – $705
Georgia GA77$560+108%$250 – $760
California CA134$529+97%$199 – $680
Florida FL90$484+80%$228 – $942
New Jersey NJ56$423+57%$220 – $3,786
Pennsylvania PA105$415+54%$168 – $630
Connecticut CT18$405+50%$255 – $514
New Mexico NM18$366+36%$162 – $1,061
New York NY91$361+34%$120 – $673
Texas TX141$360+34%$234 – $515
Alaska AK15$352+31%$128 – $501
Oklahoma OK42$327+22%$173 – $483
Massachusetts MA43$326+21%$149 – $617
South Carolina SC39$324+20%$106 – $387
Hawaii HI13$314+17%$176 – $508
Ohio OH129$304+13%$196 – $439
Indiana IN59$301+12%$117 – $459
Alabama AL24$277+3%$183 – $487
Colorado CO48$263−2%$144 – $543
West Virginia WV34$262−3%$155 – $415
Louisiana LA36$260−3%$120 – $371
Illinois IL97$255−5%$149 – $448
Michigan MI81$255−5%$87 – $411
Washington WA66$251−7%$124 – $401
Kentucky KY30$251−7%$92 – $482
South Dakota SD24$250−7%$122 – $338
North Dakota ND24$239−11%$126 – $328
Missouri MO64$228−15%$133 – $835
Virginia VA57$220−18%$75 – $357
Arizona AZ26$220−18%$122 – $636
Arkansas AR20$216−20%$88 – $603
North Carolina NC56$207−23%$130 – $373
Minnesota MN85$206−23%$107 – $268
Maine ME20$204−24%$81 – $290
Nebraska NE60$201−25%$132 – $247
Kansas KS58$189−30%$100 – $439
Nevada NV13$186−31%$162 – $539
Mississippi MS37$180−33%$130 – $282
Iowa IA74$179−34%$111 – $326
Wisconsin WI96$177−34%$133 – $311
Idaho ID18$164−39%$81 – $556
Oregon OR49$161−40%$107 – $252
Vermont VT12$160−41%$93 – $467
Montana MT27$151−44%$83 – $271
Tennessee TN37$149−45%$39 – $265
New Hampshire NH13$94−65%$52 – $175
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not 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 $269.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,691$313$164 – $588
Children’s39$320$211 – $603
Critical access658$182$97 – $321
Ownership
For-profit181$345$177 – $735
Government471$212$112 – $403
Non-profit1,736$287$137 – $545
System affiliation
Part of a system1,926$281$148 – $559
Independent470$223$97 – $427

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$460
Median cash price$269
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,678 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $298 and the average of the middle 60% is $316; most fall between $142 and $566.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,678 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
$95$173$298$507$753

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $753).

Of the 1,803 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,678 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,396 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,572 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,396
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,572

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 September 4, 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 Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tangential Biopsy Skin Single Lesion.

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, “Shave-type skin biopsy, one lesion (CPT 11102) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11102-shave-type-skin-biopsy-one-lesion