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

Shave biopsy of skin, each additional growth

CPT 11103the billing code this page is about

Removal of a thin surface slice of a skin growth for lab testing; this code covers each extra lesion sampled the same day beyond the first.

Hospitals typically charge $126 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,021 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $146. Most fall between $62 and $297 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,021
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 2,021 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
$39$72$126$248$429

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $429).

How the prices are spread

$25 – $35: 71 hospitals$25$35 – $48: 113 hospitals$48 – $67: 156 hospitals$48$67 – $93: 266 hospitals$93 – $128: 318 hospitals$93$128 – $177: 232 hospitals$177 – $245: 254 hospitals$177$245 – $340: 175 hospitals$340 – $470: 157 hospitals$340$470 – $650: 80 hospitals$470median $126price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,822 of 2,021 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$25$3571
$35$48113
$48$67156
$67$93266
$93$128318
$128$177232
$177$245254
$245$340175
$340$470157
$470$65080

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $126.

Alaska: median $176 across 12 hospitalsAK$176Maine: median $53 across 18 hospitalsME$53Vermont: median $80 across 11 hospitalsVT$80New Hampshire: median $55 across 11 hospitalsNH$55Washington: median $125 across 62 hospitalsWA$125Idaho: median $93 across 18 hospitalsID$93Montana: median $67 across 22 hospitalsMT$67North Dakota: median $104 across 19 hospitalsND$104Minnesota: median $95 across 70 hospitalsMN$95Illinois: median $141 across 84 hospitalsIL$141Wisconsin: median $115 across 90 hospitalsWI$115Michigan: median $104 across 76 hospitalsMI$104New York: median $150 across 75 hospitalsNY$150Massachusetts: median $125 across 37 hospitalsMA$125Oregon: median $90 across 47 hospitalsOR$90Nevada: median $103 across 10 hospitalsNV$103Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $146 across 20 hospitalsSD$146Iowa: median $101 across 67 hospitalsIA$101Indiana: median $113 across 50 hospitalsIN$113Ohio: median $179 across 113 hospitalsOH$179Pennsylvania: median $141 across 70 hospitalsPA$141New Jersey: median $530 across 39 hospitalsNJ$530Connecticut: median $230 across 11 hospitalsCT$230Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $250 across 112 hospitalsCA$250Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $151 across 44 hospitalsCO$151Nebraska: median $96 across 52 hospitalsNE$96Missouri: median $92 across 55 hospitalsMO$92Kentucky: median $181 across 25 hospitalsKY$181West Virginia: median $145 across 31 hospitalsWV$145Virginia: median $100 across 48 hospitalsVA$100Maryland: median $183 across 12 hospitalsMD$183Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $112 across 21 hospitalsAZ$112New Mexico: median $95 across 12 hospitalsNM$95Kansas: median $80 across 50 hospitalsKS$80Arkansas: median $92 across 13 hospitalsAR$92Tennessee: median $39 across 31 hospitalsTN$39North Carolina: median $140 across 48 hospitalsNC$140South Carolina: median $233 across 34 hospitalsSC$233Oklahoma: median $149 across 31 hospitalsOK$149Louisiana: median $118 across 33 hospitalsLA$118Mississippi: median $89 across 34 hospitalsMS$89Alabama: median $143 across 22 hospitalsAL$143Georgia: median $200 across 72 hospitalsGA$200Hawaii: median $119 across 11 hospitalsHI$119Texas: median $236 across 105 hospitalsTX$236Florida: median $280 across 70 hospitalsFL$280
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $126. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ39$530+319%$101 – $4,881
Florida FL70$280+122%$97 – $542
California CA112$250+97%$99 – $403
Texas TX105$236+87%$111 – $331
South Carolina SC34$233+84%$93 – $339
Connecticut CT11$230+82%$194 – $382
Georgia GA72$200+59%$122 – $836
Maryland MD12$183+45%$95 – $529
Kentucky KY25$181+43%$60 – $199
Ohio OH113$179+42%$92 – $292
Alaska AK12$176+39%$107 – $225
Colorado CO44$151+19%$65 – $307
New York NY75$150+19%$45 – $410
Oklahoma OK31$149+18%$80 – $369
South Dakota SD20$146+16%$61 – $165
West Virginia WV31$145+15%$77 – $204
Alabama AL22$143+13%$79 – $505
Pennsylvania PA70$141+12%$28 – $338
Illinois IL84$141+12%$76 – $313
North Carolina NC48$140+11%$70 – $262
Washington WA62$125−1%$70 – $197
Massachusetts MA37$125−1%$60 – $340
Hawaii HI11$119−6%$56 – $452
Louisiana LA33$118−6%$67 – $205
Wisconsin WI90$115−9%$76 – $168
Indiana IN50$113−10%$60 – $361
Arizona AZ21$112−11%$63 – $370
North Dakota ND19$104−17%$57 – $156
Michigan MI76$104−18%$26 – $231
Nevada NV10$103−19%$68 – $269
Iowa IA67$101−20%$58 – $157
Virginia VA48$100−21%$21 – $334
Nebraska NE52$96−24%$57 – $119
Minnesota MN70$95−25%$57 – $120
New Mexico NM12$95−25%$81 – $291
Idaho ID18$93−26%$42 – $556
Missouri MO55$92−27%$57 – $364
Arkansas AR13$92−28%$68 – $218
Oregon OR47$90−29%$64 – $129
Mississippi MS34$89−30%$74 – $160
Kansas KS50$80−37%$48 – $167
Vermont VT11$80−37%$73 – $121
Montana MT22$67−47%$43 – $120
New Hampshire NH11$55−56%$41 – $74
Maine ME18$53−58%$28 – $120
Tennessee TN31$39−69%$21 – $91
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not 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 $126.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,420$157$71 – $345
Children’s34$171$110 – $319
Critical access560$92$48 – $166
Ownership
For-profit123$183$78 – $370
Government399$106$50 – $234
Non-profit1,492$130$66 – $307
System affiliation
Part of a system1,609$131$68 – $320
Independent412$110$48 – $249

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$217
Median cash price$126
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,452 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $151 and the average of the middle 60% is $170; most fall between $70 and $341.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,452 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
$43$82$151$292$464

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($43 vs $464).

Of the 1,571 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,452 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 75 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,021 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,224 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,021
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code2,224

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 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 Ea Sep/Additional 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 biopsy of skin, each additional growth (CPT 11103) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11103-shave-biopsy-of-skin-each-additional-growth