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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Shave removal of growth on trunk, arm or leg, over 2.0 cm

CPT 11303the billing code this page is about

Surface shaving of one skin growth on the trunk, arm, or leg larger than 2.0 cm, without stitches.

Hospitals typically charge $312 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,126 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $324. Most fall between $151 and $526 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,126
States
49
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 1,126 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
$110$181$312$480$876

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $876).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $100: 32 hospitals$77$100 – $131: 99 hospitals$131 – $172: 84 hospitals$131$172 – $225: 105 hospitals$225 – $294: 151 hospitals$225$294 – $385: 168 hospitals$385 – $503: 190 hospitals$385$503 – $659: 77 hospitals$659 – $862: 46 hospitals$659$862 – $1,127: 62 hospitals$862median $312price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,014 of 1,126 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$10032
$100$13199
$131$17284
$172$225105
$225$294151
$294$385168
$385$503190
$503$65977
$659$86246
$862$1,12762

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$312
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $312.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $157 across 12 hospitalsME$157Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $125 across 11 hospitalsNH$125Washington: median $303 across 28 hospitalsWA$303Idaho: median $302 across 12 hospitalsID$302Montana: median $228 across 15 hospitalsMT$228North Dakota: median $410 across 15 hospitalsND$410Minnesota: median $269 across 36 hospitalsMN$269Illinois: median $261 across 42 hospitalsIL$261Wisconsin: median $311 across 53 hospitalsWI$311Michigan: median $183 across 49 hospitalsMI$183New York: median $473 across 54 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $438 across 17 hospitalsMA$438Oregon: median $275 across 26 hospitalsOR$275Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $426 across 15 hospitalsSD$426Iowa: median $282 across 53 hospitalsIA$282Indiana: median $334 across 25 hospitalsIN$334Ohio: median $377 across 49 hospitalsOH$377Pennsylvania: median $469 across 60 hospitalsPA$469New Jersey: median $985 across 29 hospitalsNJ$985Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $492 across 61 hospitalsCA$492Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $281 across 17 hospitalsCO$281Nebraska: median $280 across 39 hospitalsNE$280Missouri: median $182 across 30 hospitalsMO$182Kentucky: median $165 across 11 hospitalsKY$165West Virginia: median $208 across 24 hospitalsWV$208Virginia: median $365 across 23 hospitalsVA$365Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $201 across 35 hospitalsKS$201Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $111 across 13 hospitalsTN$111North Carolina: median $299 across 19 hospitalsNC$299South Carolina: median $323 across 14 hospitalsSC$323Oklahoma: median $117 across 19 hospitalsOK$117Louisiana: median $208 across 20 hospitalsLA$208Mississippi: median $186 across 16 hospitalsMS$186Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $419 across 39 hospitalsGA$419Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $399 across 44 hospitalsTX$399Florida: median $368 across 33 hospitalsFL$368
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $312. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$985+216%$443 – $5,339
California CA61$492+58%$392 – $1,114
New York NY54$473+52%$142 – $851
Pennsylvania PA60$469+50%$115 – $1,197
Massachusetts MA17$438+40%$169 – $725
South Dakota SD15$426+37%$311 – $427
Georgia GA39$419+34%$323 – $488
North Dakota ND15$410+32%$176 – $439
Texas TX44$399+28%$161 – $539
Ohio OH49$377+21%$169 – $779
Florida FL33$368+18%$287 – $974
Virginia VA23$365+17%$87 – $472
Indiana IN25$334+7%$176 – $433
South Carolina SC14$323+4%$159 – $746
Wisconsin WI53$3110%$249 – $472
Washington WA28$303−3%$207 – $565
Idaho ID12$302−3%$196 – $1,117
North Carolina NC19$299−4%$187 – $312
Iowa IA53$282−10%$129 – $380
Colorado CO17$281−10%$146 – $708
Nebraska NE39$280−10%$171 – $358
Oregon OR26$275−12%$226 – $374
Minnesota MN36$269−14%$189 – $473
Illinois IL42$261−16%$146 – $399
Montana MT15$228−27%$111 – $347
Louisiana LA20$208−33%$86 – $369
West Virginia WV24$208−33%$74 – $468
Kansas KS35$201−36%$121 – $258
Mississippi MS16$186−41%$132 – $490
Michigan MI49$183−41%$63 – $559
Missouri MO30$182−42%$125 – $270
Kentucky KY11$165−47%$146 – $245
Maine ME12$157−50%$111 – $209
New Hampshire NH11$125−60%$79 – $411
Oklahoma OK19$117−63%$117 – $642
Tennessee TN13$111−64%$103 – $197
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $312.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care717$376$168 – $656
Children’s22$275$229 – $492
Critical access386$250$141 – $402
Ownership
For-profit57$377$146 – $563
Government274$276$157 – $419
Non-profit794$353$146 – $580
System affiliation
Part of a system872$343$159 – $565
Independent254$240$134 – $455

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$436
Median cash price$312
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

695 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $332 and the average of the middle 60% is $342; most fall between $158 and $595.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 695 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
$117$190$332$500$1,083

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $1,083).

Of the 759 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 695 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,126 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,223 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,126
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
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 — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,223

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 Excision of skin lesion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Shvg Skin Lesion 1 Trunk/Arm/Leg Diam >2.0 Cm.

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 removal of growth on trunk, arm or leg, over 2.0 cm (CPT 11303) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11303-shave-removal-of-growth-on-trunk-arm-or-leg-over-2-0-cm