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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Shaving a skin growth on face, ear or lip, 1.1 to 2 cm

CPT 11312the 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 1.1 to 2.0 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $295 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,104 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $316. Most fall between $144 and $562 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,104
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 1,104 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$165$295$473$880

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $880).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $88: 46 hospitals$67$88 – $117: 56 hospitals$117 – $155: 94 hospitals$117$155 – $206: 107 hospitals$206 – $274: 137 hospitals$206$274 – $363: 139 hospitals$363 – $482: 202 hospitals$363$482 – $640: 92 hospitals$640 – $849: 57 hospitals$640$849 – $1,127: 66 hospitals$849median $295price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (996 of 1,104 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$8846
$88$11756
$117$15594
$155$206107
$206$274137
$274$363139
$363$482202
$482$64092
$640$84957
$849$1,12766

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$295
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.71×

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 $295.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $207 across 11 hospitalsME$207Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $85 across 10 hospitalsNH$85Washington: median $339 across 28 hospitalsWA$339Idaho: median $343 across 14 hospitalsID$343Montana: median $223 across 15 hospitalsMT$223North Dakota: median $410 across 10 hospitalsND$410Minnesota: median $318 across 45 hospitalsMN$318Illinois: median $256 across 42 hospitalsIL$256Wisconsin: median $284 across 55 hospitalsWI$284Michigan: median $249 across 53 hospitalsMI$249New York: median $415 across 47 hospitalsNY$415Massachusetts: median $426 across 18 hospitalsMA$426Oregon: median $273 across 24 hospitalsOR$273Nevada: 6 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 $378 across 16 hospitalsSD$378Iowa: median $256 across 45 hospitalsIA$256Indiana: median $294 across 27 hospitalsIN$294Ohio: median $454 across 49 hospitalsOH$454Pennsylvania: median $480 across 54 hospitalsPA$480New Jersey: median $2,707 across 32 hospitalsNJ$2,707Connecticut: 3 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 $723 across 66 hospitalsCA$723Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $283 across 18 hospitalsCO$283Nebraska: median $292 across 38 hospitalsNE$292Missouri: median $178 across 37 hospitalsMO$178Kentucky: median $154 across 10 hospitalsKY$154West Virginia: median $217 across 26 hospitalsWV$217Virginia: median $259 across 25 hospitalsVA$259Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $157 across 40 hospitalsKS$157Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $112 across 15 hospitalsTN$112North Carolina: median $284 across 18 hospitalsNC$284South Carolina: median $429 across 25 hospitalsSC$429Oklahoma: median $122 across 17 hospitalsOK$122Louisiana: median $150 across 17 hospitalsLA$150Mississippi: median $141 across 14 hospitalsMS$141Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $203 across 14 hospitalsGA$203Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $433 across 40 hospitalsTX$433Florida: median $876 across 21 hospitalsFL$876
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $295. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ32$2,707+817%$443 – $5,110
Florida FL21$876+197%$368 – $1,127
California CA66$723+145%$264 – $1,114
Pennsylvania PA54$480+63%$160 – $819
Ohio OH49$454+54%$177 – $935
Texas TX40$433+47%$154 – $448
South Carolina SC25$429+45%$134 – $617
Massachusetts MA18$426+44%$142 – $650
New York NY47$415+41%$134 – $566
North Dakota ND10$410+39%$349 – $444
South Dakota SD16$378+28%$267 – $436
Idaho ID14$343+16%$160 – $1,117
Washington WA28$339+15%$197 – $563
Minnesota MN45$318+8%$179 – $439
Indiana IN27$2940%$167 – $444
Nebraska NE38$292−1%$158 – $360
North Carolina NC18$284−4%$191 – $284
Wisconsin WI55$284−4%$252 – $387
Colorado CO18$283−4%$150 – $472
Oregon OR24$273−8%$115 – $372
Virginia VA25$259−12%$80 – $371
Illinois IL42$256−13%$152 – $399
Iowa IA45$256−13%$150 – $390
Michigan MI53$249−16%$66 – $559
Montana MT15$223−24%$107 – $348
West Virginia WV26$217−26%$77 – $519
Maine ME11$207−30%$149 – $333
Georgia GA14$203−31%$203 – $536
Missouri MO37$178−40%$130 – $312
Kansas KS40$157−47%$89 – $272
Kentucky KY10$154−48%$115 – $224
Louisiana LA17$150−49%$77 – $369
Mississippi MS14$141−52%$125 – $490
Oklahoma OK17$122−59%$122 – $352
Tennessee TN15$112−62%$47 – $294
New Hampshire NH10$85−71%$82 – $263
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not 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 $295.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care695$374$153 – $723
Children’s23$336$161 – $560
Critical access385$245$128 – $387
Ownership
For-profit52$239$152 – $586
Government250$252$150 – $388
Non-profit801$335$140 – $634
System affiliation
Part of a system846$327$152 – $617
Independent258$236$134 – $434

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$432
Median cash price$295
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

688 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $305 and the average of the middle 60% is $335; most fall between $152 and $634.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 688 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
$106$180$305$533$935

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $935).

Of the 745 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 688 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 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,104 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 1,194 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,104
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code1,194

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 1.1-2.0 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, “Shaving a skin growth on face, ear or lip, 1.1 to 2 cm (CPT 11312) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11312-shaving-a-skin-growth-on-face-ear-or-lip-1-1-to-2-cm