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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of a benign skin growth, trunk or limb, up to 0.5 cm

CPT 11400the billing code this page is about

A non-cancerous skin growth on the trunk, arm or leg is cut out through the full thickness of the skin, with simple closure; covers one growth 0.5 cm or smaller including margins.

Hospitals typically charge $530 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,185 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $612. Most fall between $187 and $1,422 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,185
States
50
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 2,185 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
$123$219$530$1,207$2,388

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($123 vs $2,388).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $122: 104 hospitals$83$122 – $179: 195 hospitals$179 – $263: 254 hospitals$179$263 – $386: 259 hospitals$386 – $567: 219 hospitals$386$567 – $832: 271 hospitals$832 – $1,222: 235 hospitals$832$1,222 – $1,794: 212 hospitals$1,794 – $2,635: 141 hospitals$1,794$2,635 – $3,869: 78 hospitals$2,635median $530price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,968 of 2,185 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$122104
$122$179195
$179$263254
$263$386259
$386$567219
$567$832271
$832$1,222235
$1,222$1,794212
$1,794$2,635141
$2,635$3,86978

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$530
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $530.

Alaska: median $517 across 14 hospitalsAK$517Maine: median $171 across 18 hospitalsME$171Vermont: median $203 across 12 hospitalsVT$203New Hampshire: median $184 across 16 hospitalsNH$184Washington: median $473 across 69 hospitalsWA$473Idaho: median $304 across 18 hospitalsID$304Montana: median $173 across 25 hospitalsMT$173North Dakota: median $349 across 23 hospitalsND$349Minnesota: median $320 across 70 hospitalsMN$320Illinois: median $382 across 75 hospitalsIL$382Wisconsin: median $348 across 73 hospitalsWI$348Michigan: median $515 across 75 hospitalsMI$515New York: median $833 across 97 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $836 across 42 hospitalsMA$836Oregon: median $247 across 47 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $770 across 14 hospitalsNV$770Wyoming: median $215 across 10 hospitalsWY$215South Dakota: median $357 across 22 hospitalsSD$357Iowa: median $260 across 75 hospitalsIA$260Indiana: median $499 across 50 hospitalsIN$499Ohio: median $1,293 across 83 hospitalsOH$1,293Pennsylvania: median $837 across 101 hospitalsPA$837New Jersey: median $1,277 across 46 hospitalsNJ$1,277Connecticut: median $1,393 across 14 hospitalsCT$1,393Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,326 across 124 hospitalsCA$1,326Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $364 across 46 hospitalsCO$364Nebraska: median $289 across 63 hospitalsNE$289Missouri: median $475 across 61 hospitalsMO$475Kentucky: median $274 across 32 hospitalsKY$274West Virginia: median $521 across 35 hospitalsWV$521Virginia: median $562 across 54 hospitalsVA$562Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $328 across 10 hospitalsAZ$328New Mexico: median $697 across 21 hospitalsNM$697Kansas: median $188 across 67 hospitalsKS$188Arkansas: median $295 across 22 hospitalsAR$295Tennessee: median $176 across 35 hospitalsTN$176North Carolina: median $453 across 47 hospitalsNC$453South Carolina: median $1,422 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,422Oklahoma: median $160 across 38 hospitalsOK$160Louisiana: median $528 across 36 hospitalsLA$528Mississippi: median $233 across 42 hospitalsMS$233Alabama: median $883 across 29 hospitalsAL$883Georgia: median $1,183 across 62 hospitalsGA$1,183Hawaii: median $1,168 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,168Texas: median $827 across 116 hospitalsTX$827Florida: median $1,715 across 80 hospitalsFL$1,715
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $530. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL80$1,715+224%$472 – $2,170
South Carolina SC36$1,422+168%$797 – $1,755
Connecticut CT14$1,393+163%$964 – $4,026
California CA124$1,326+150%$451 – $2,733
Ohio OH83$1,293+144%$287 – $1,793
New Jersey NJ46$1,277+141%$821 – $4,350
Georgia GA62$1,183+123%$469 – $2,488
Hawaii HI12$1,168+120%$146 – $2,356
Alabama AL29$883+67%$345 – $5,281
Pennsylvania PA101$837+58%$352 – $1,515
Massachusetts MA42$836+58%$372 – $1,316
New York NY97$833+57%$194 – $1,994
Texas TX116$827+56%$411 – $1,347
Nevada NV14$770+45%$287 – $2,264
New Mexico NM21$697+32%$224 – $2,722
Virginia VA54$562+6%$176 – $1,020
Louisiana LA36$5280%$343 – $1,112
West Virginia WV35$521−2%$193 – $1,006
Alaska AK14$517−2%$265 – $1,272
Michigan MI75$515−3%$90 – $1,129
Indiana IN50$499−6%$160 – $1,316
Missouri MO61$475−10%$168 – $2,223
Washington WA69$473−11%$217 – $1,161
North Carolina NC47$453−15%$248 – $780
Illinois IL75$382−28%$196 – $1,520
Colorado CO46$364−31%$257 – $780
South Dakota SD22$357−33%$165 – $666
North Dakota ND23$349−34%$205 – $723
Wisconsin WI73$348−34%$219 – $734
Arizona AZ10$328−38%$186 – $801
Minnesota MN70$320−40%$178 – $734
Idaho ID18$304−43%$190 – $1,783
Arkansas AR22$295−44%$186 – $1,304
Nebraska NE63$289−46%$212 – $604
Kentucky KY32$274−48%$127 – $680
Iowa IA75$260−51%$133 – $378
Oregon OR47$247−53%$187 – $877
Mississippi MS42$233−56%$164 – $440
Wyoming WY10$215−59%$84 – $297
Vermont VT12$203−62%$88 – $460
Kansas KS67$188−65%$115 – $413
New Hampshire NH16$184−65%$66 – $429
Tennessee TN35$176−67%$158 – $885
Montana MT25$173−67%$88 – $303
Maine ME18$171−68%$84 – $464
Oklahoma OK38$160−70%$150 – $794
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $530.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,459$772$261 – $1,788
Children’s57$1,059$420 – $3,129
Critical access665$247$133 – $553
Ownership
For-profit187$842$348 – $2,522
Government467$274$155 – $850
Non-profit1,527$602$193 – $1,479
System affiliation
Part of a system1,720$614$206 – $1,528
Independent465$301$138 – $935

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$902
Median cash price$530
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

1,490 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $625 and the average of the middle 60% is $683; most fall between $214 and $1,440.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,490 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
$144$259$625$1,269$2,081

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $2,081).

Of the 1,606 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,490 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

2,185 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,353 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,185
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code2,353

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 July 20, 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 Exc B9 Lesion Mrgn Xcp Sk Tg T/a/L 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, “Removal of a benign skin growth, trunk or limb, up to 0.5 cm (CPT 11400) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11400-removal-of-a-benign-skin-growth-trunk-or-limb-up-to-0-5-cm