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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Shaving a skin growth on scalp, neck or hand, up to 0.5 cm

CPT 11305the billing code this page is about

A raised skin growth on the scalp, neck, hand, foot or genital area is shaved off level with the surrounding skin; covers one growth measuring 0.5 cm or less.

Hospitals typically charge $190 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,537 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $192. Most fall between $102 and $309 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,537
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 1,537 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$114$190$278$473

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $473).

How the prices are spread

$46 – $60: 45 hospitals$46$60 – $77: 72 hospitals$77 – $100: 111 hospitals$77$100 – $130: 157 hospitals$130 – $168: 184 hospitals$130$168 – $217: 264 hospitals$217 – $281: 258 hospitals$217$281 – $364: 132 hospitals$364 – $471: 83 hospitals$364$471 – $609: 80 hospitals$471median $190price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,386 of 1,537 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$46$6045
$60$7772
$77$100111
$100$130157
$130$168184
$168$217264
$217$281258
$281$364132
$364$47183
$471$60980

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$190
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.93×

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 $190.

Alaska: median $297 across 10 hospitalsAK$297Maine: median $140 across 21 hospitalsME$140Vermont: median $186 across 11 hospitalsVT$186New Hampshire: median $79 across 11 hospitalsNH$79Washington: median $189 across 47 hospitalsWA$189Idaho: median $178 across 16 hospitalsID$178Montana: median $162 across 23 hospitalsMT$162North Dakota: median $232 across 20 hospitalsND$232Minnesota: median $202 across 62 hospitalsMN$202Illinois: median $182 across 57 hospitalsIL$182Wisconsin: median $177 across 61 hospitalsWI$177Michigan: median $145 across 61 hospitalsMI$145New York: median $235 across 76 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: median $323 across 29 hospitalsMA$323Oregon: median $161 across 38 hospitalsOR$161Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $197 across 19 hospitalsSD$197Iowa: median $169 across 63 hospitalsIA$169Indiana: median $182 across 32 hospitalsIN$182Ohio: median $219 across 62 hospitalsOH$219Pennsylvania: median $237 across 70 hospitalsPA$237New Jersey: median $278 across 39 hospitalsNJ$278Connecticut: median $120 across 10 hospitalsCT$120Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $226 across 85 hospitalsCA$226Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $171 across 30 hospitalsCO$171Nebraska: median $172 across 52 hospitalsNE$172Missouri: median $140 across 42 hospitalsMO$140Kentucky: median $106 across 16 hospitalsKY$106West Virginia: median $193 across 28 hospitalsWV$193Virginia: median $223 across 27 hospitalsVA$223Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $105 across 52 hospitalsKS$105Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $84 across 14 hospitalsTN$84North Carolina: median $199 across 27 hospitalsNC$199South Carolina: median $200 across 26 hospitalsSC$200Oklahoma: median $63 across 19 hospitalsOK$63Louisiana: median $111 across 26 hospitalsLA$111Mississippi: median $109 across 20 hospitalsMS$109Alabama: median $186 across 10 hospitalsAL$186Georgia: median $278 across 43 hospitalsGA$278Hawaii: median $279 across 10 hospitalsHI$279Texas: median $232 across 78 hospitalsTX$232Florida: median $222 across 48 hospitalsFL$222
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $190. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA29$323+70%$120 – $617
Alaska AK10$297+56%$175 – $352
Hawaii HI10$279+46%$116 – $506
New Jersey NJ39$278+46%$220 – $4,881
Georgia GA43$278+46%$139 – $363
Pennsylvania PA70$237+24%$93 – $525
New York NY76$235+23%$105 – $426
Texas TX78$232+22%$113 – $256
North Dakota ND20$232+22%$96 – $294
California CA85$226+19%$189 – $369
Virginia VA27$223+17%$70 – $342
Florida FL48$222+17%$128 – $539
Ohio OH62$219+15%$108 – $387
Minnesota MN62$202+6%$118 – $280
South Carolina SC26$200+5%$154 – $327
North Carolina NC27$199+4%$118 – $315
South Dakota SD19$197+4%$132 – $259
West Virginia WV28$193+1%$111 – $320
Washington WA47$189−1%$112 – $316
Vermont VT11$186−2%$110 – $266
Alabama AL10$186−3%$100 – $286
Indiana IN32$182−4%$111 – $275
Illinois IL57$182−4%$96 – $258
Idaho ID16$178−6%$102 – $556
Wisconsin WI61$177−7%$133 – $202
Nebraska NE52$172−10%$117 – $221
Colorado CO30$171−10%$103 – $287
Iowa IA63$169−11%$99 – $248
Montana MT23$162−15%$83 – $255
Oregon OR38$161−16%$79 – $281
Michigan MI61$145−24%$33 – $285
Missouri MO42$140−26%$92 – $229
Maine ME21$140−27%$89 – $197
Connecticut CT10$120−37%$80 – $289
Louisiana LA26$111−42%$73 – $255
Mississippi MS20$109−43%$81 – $247
Kentucky KY16$106−44%$78 – $167
Kansas KS52$105−45%$69 – $150
Tennessee TN14$84−56%$63 – $131
New Hampshire NH11$79−58%$50 – $105
Oklahoma OK19$63−67%$63 – $449
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $190.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,001$212$111 – $369
Children’s25$170$88 – $286
Critical access508$155$87 – $242
Ownership
For-profit85$192$103 – $320
Government342$166$102 – $261
Non-profit1,107$197$100 – $339
System affiliation
Part of a system1,208$200$109 – $332
Independent329$142$79 – $256

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$282
Median cash price$190
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

986 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $196 and the average of the middle 60% is $206; most fall between $109 and $366.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 986 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
$75$122$196$306$525

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $525).

Of the 1,062 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 986 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 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,537 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,650 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,537
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here67
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,650

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 Hp 11305 Shaving Skin Lesion 1 S/N/H/F/G Diam 0.5 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, “Shaving a skin growth on scalp, neck or hand, up to 0.5 cm (CPT 11305) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11305-shaving-a-skin-growth-on-scalp-neck-or-hand-up-to-0-5-cm