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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Shaving a skin growth on face, ear or lip, 0.6 to 1 cm

CPT 11311the billing code this page is about

A raised skin growth on the face, ear, eyelid, nose or lip is shaved off level with the surrounding skin; covers one growth measuring 0.6 to 1.0 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $220 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,208 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $225. Most fall between $118 and $377 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,208
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 1,208 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
$79$140$220$333$536

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $536).

How the prices are spread

$57 – $74: 48 hospitals$57$74 – $96: 65 hospitals$96 – $125: 98 hospitals$96$125 – $163: 115 hospitals$163 – $212: 194 hospitals$163$212 – $276: 212 hospitals$276 – $359: 159 hospitals$276$359 – $466: 100 hospitals$466 – $607: 56 hospitals$466$607 – $790: 55 hospitals$607median $220price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,102 of 1,208 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$57$7448
$74$9665
$96$12598
$125$163115
$163$212194
$212$276212
$276$359159
$359$466100
$466$60756
$607$79055

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$220
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $220.

Alaska: median $341 across 10 hospitalsAK$341Maine: median $180 across 13 hospitalsME$180Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $92 across 11 hospitalsNH$92Washington: median $251 across 30 hospitalsWA$251Idaho: median $334 across 13 hospitalsID$334Montana: median $186 across 23 hospitalsMT$186North Dakota: median $210 across 17 hospitalsND$210Minnesota: median $219 across 57 hospitalsMN$219Illinois: median $200 across 44 hospitalsIL$200Wisconsin: median $220 across 61 hospitalsWI$220Michigan: median $175 across 53 hospitalsMI$175New York: median $235 across 54 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: median $382 across 18 hospitalsMA$382Oregon: median $202 across 28 hospitalsOR$202Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $235 across 18 hospitalsSD$235Iowa: median $216 across 57 hospitalsIA$216Indiana: median $247 across 27 hospitalsIN$247Ohio: median $367 across 50 hospitalsOH$367Pennsylvania: median $237 across 58 hospitalsPA$237New Jersey: median $280 across 26 hospitalsNJ$280Connecticut: 6 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 $442 across 64 hospitalsCA$442Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $284 across 19 hospitalsCO$284Nebraska: median $224 across 41 hospitalsNE$224Missouri: median $172 across 35 hospitalsMO$172Kentucky: median $143 across 11 hospitalsKY$143West Virginia: median $194 across 27 hospitalsWV$194Virginia: median $194 across 25 hospitalsVA$194Maryland: 3 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 $155 across 42 hospitalsKS$155Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $84 across 17 hospitalsTN$84North Carolina: median $285 across 21 hospitalsNC$285South Carolina: median $244 across 25 hospitalsSC$244Oklahoma: median $104 across 17 hospitalsOK$104Louisiana: median $111 across 24 hospitalsLA$111Mississippi: median $187 across 18 hospitalsMS$187Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $164 across 16 hospitalsGA$164Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $233 across 45 hospitalsTX$233Florida: median $424 across 24 hospitalsFL$424
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $220. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA64$442+101%$208 – $790
Florida FL24$424+93%$191 – $634
Massachusetts MA18$382+73%$206 – $650
Ohio OH50$367+67%$110 – $602
Alaska AK10$341+55%$161 – $561
Idaho ID13$334+52%$175 – $556
North Carolina NC21$285+29%$162 – $285
Colorado CO19$284+29%$111 – $354
New Jersey NJ26$280+27%$220 – $5,339
Washington WA30$251+14%$141 – $325
Indiana IN27$247+12%$127 – $308
South Carolina SC25$244+11%$159 – $244
Pennsylvania PA58$237+8%$109 – $521
South Dakota SD18$235+7%$187 – $259
New York NY54$235+7%$108 – $366
Texas TX45$233+6%$122 – $334
Nebraska NE41$224+2%$161 – $282
Wisconsin WI61$2200%$154 – $266
Minnesota MN57$219−1%$156 – $337
Iowa IA57$216−2%$104 – $338
North Dakota ND17$210−5%$111 – $363
Oregon OR28$202−8%$84 – $255
Illinois IL44$200−9%$125 – $347
Virginia VA25$194−12%$78 – $223
West Virginia WV27$194−12%$100 – $314
Mississippi MS18$187−15%$117 – $247
Montana MT23$186−15%$90 – $287
Maine ME13$180−18%$82 – $257
Michigan MI53$175−20%$55 – $276
Missouri MO35$172−22%$97 – $238
Georgia GA16$164−26%$164 – $399
Kansas KS42$155−29%$88 – $195
Kentucky KY11$143−35%$107 – $289
Louisiana LA24$111−50%$73 – $308
Oklahoma OK17$104−53%$104 – $311
New Hampshire NH11$92−58%$69 – $154
Tennessee TN17$84−62%$43 – $251
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $220.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care733$235$123 – $438
Children’s25$227$128 – $352
Critical access449$193$104 – $299
Ownership
For-profit58$190$125 – $514
Government284$200$123 – $292
Non-profit865$231$111 – $396
System affiliation
Part of a system925$231$125 – $387
Independent283$182$101 – $334

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$315
Median cash price$220
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

753 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $227 and the average of the middle 60% is $236; most fall between $120 and $408.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 753 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
$88$145$227$364$603

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $603).

Of the 818 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 753 gave a usable cash price; 30 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

1,208 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,310 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,208
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
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 — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,310

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 F/E/E/N/L/M Diam 0.6-1.0 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, “Shaving a skin growth on face, ear or lip, 0.6 to 1 cm (CPT 11311) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11311-shaving-a-skin-growth-on-face-ear-or-lip-0-6-to-1-cm