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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, trunk/arm/leg, 0.6–1 cm

CPT 11401the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting out of a non-cancerous skin lesion on the trunk, arm, or leg, where the removed area measures 0.6 to 1.0 cm across, including simple closure of the wound.

Hospitals typically charge $481 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,254 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $557. Most fall between $223 and $1,277 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,254
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 2,254 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
$150$258$481$1,030$2,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($150 vs $2,182).

How the prices are spread

$105 – $153: 117 hospitals$105$153 – $222: 219 hospitals$222 – $322: 284 hospitals$222$322 – $468: 357 hospitals$468 – $680: 331 hospitals$468$680 – $988: 247 hospitals$988 – $1,436: 182 hospitals$988$1,436 – $2,087: 138 hospitals$2,087 – $3,033: 121 hospitals$2,087$3,033 – $4,407: 34 hospitals$3,033median $481price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,030 of 2,254 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$105$153117
$153$222219
$222$322284
$322$468357
$468$680331
$680$988247
$988$1,436182
$1,436$2,087138
$2,087$3,033121
$3,033$4,40734

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$481
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $481.

Alaska: median $613 across 14 hospitalsAK$613Maine: median $302 across 21 hospitalsME$302Vermont: median $254 across 12 hospitalsVT$254New Hampshire: median $127 across 13 hospitalsNH$127Washington: median $450 across 65 hospitalsWA$450Idaho: median $329 across 19 hospitalsID$329Montana: median $229 across 27 hospitalsMT$229North Dakota: median $375 across 22 hospitalsND$375Minnesota: median $333 across 79 hospitalsMN$333Illinois: median $401 across 78 hospitalsIL$401Wisconsin: median $381 across 76 hospitalsWI$381Michigan: median $453 across 82 hospitalsMI$453New York: median $591 across 93 hospitalsNY$591Massachusetts: median $750 across 44 hospitalsMA$750Oregon: median $353 across 49 hospitalsOR$353Nevada: median $499 across 14 hospitalsNV$499Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $400 across 21 hospitalsSD$400Iowa: median $304 across 79 hospitalsIA$304Indiana: median $564 across 50 hospitalsIN$564Ohio: median $734 across 103 hospitalsOH$734Pennsylvania: median $480 across 94 hospitalsPA$480New Jersey: median $1,168 across 48 hospitalsNJ$1,168Connecticut: median $533 across 14 hospitalsCT$533Rhode Island: median $454 across 10 hospitalsRI$454California: median $1,354 across 119 hospitalsCA$1,354Utah: median $518 across 27 hospitalsUT$518Colorado: median $412 across 43 hospitalsCO$412Nebraska: median $322 across 57 hospitalsNE$322Missouri: median $450 across 63 hospitalsMO$450Kentucky: median $401 across 38 hospitalsKY$401West Virginia: median $417 across 35 hospitalsWV$417Virginia: median $545 across 55 hospitalsVA$545Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,662 across 21 hospitalsAZ$3,662New Mexico: median $482 across 18 hospitalsNM$482Kansas: median $225 across 72 hospitalsKS$225Arkansas: median $414 across 28 hospitalsAR$414Tennessee: median $199 across 35 hospitalsTN$199North Carolina: median $573 across 54 hospitalsNC$573South Carolina: median $1,843 across 34 hospitalsSC$1,843Oklahoma: median $188 across 37 hospitalsOK$188Louisiana: median $476 across 33 hospitalsLA$476Mississippi: median $281 across 39 hospitalsMS$281Alabama: median $606 across 22 hospitalsAL$606Georgia: median $1,612 across 66 hospitalsGA$1,612Hawaii: median $361 across 11 hospitalsHI$361Texas: median $708 across 131 hospitalsTX$708Florida: median $1,079 across 70 hospitalsFL$1,079
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $481. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ21$3,662+661%$390 – $3,662
South Carolina SC34$1,843+283%$445 – $2,098
Georgia GA66$1,612+235%$405 – $2,659
California CA119$1,354+182%$396 – $2,128
New Jersey NJ48$1,168+143%$471 – $4,627
Florida FL70$1,079+124%$389 – $2,844
Massachusetts MA44$750+56%$371 – $1,411
Ohio OH103$734+53%$335 – $1,673
Texas TX131$708+47%$338 – $1,100
Alaska AK14$613+27%$322 – $1,492
Alabama AL22$606+26%$343 – $5,175
New York NY93$591+23%$234 – $1,442
North Carolina NC54$573+19%$399 – $957
Indiana IN50$564+17%$206 – $1,614
Virginia VA55$545+13%$180 – $766
Connecticut CT14$533+11%$178 – $1,042
Utah UT27$518+8%$518 – $575
Nevada NV14$499+4%$285 – $2,610
New Mexico NM18$4820%$197 – $2,524
Pennsylvania PA94$4800%$258 – $1,278
Louisiana LA33$476−1%$227 – $711
Rhode Island RI10$454−6%$246 – $1,307
Michigan MI82$453−6%$117 – $1,118
Missouri MO63$450−6%$197 – $1,616
Washington WA65$450−6%$263 – $1,089
West Virginia WV35$417−13%$258 – $840
Arkansas AR28$414−14%$244 – $1,188
Colorado CO43$412−14%$296 – $1,290
Kentucky KY38$401−17%$155 – $1,346
Illinois IL78$401−17%$236 – $1,416
South Dakota SD21$400−17%$275 – $462
Wisconsin WI76$381−21%$263 – $685
North Dakota ND22$375−22%$228 – $453
Hawaii HI11$361−25%$176 – $1,168
Oregon OR49$353−27%$230 – $938
Minnesota MN79$333−31%$186 – $585
Idaho ID19$329−32%$196 – $1,117
Nebraska NE57$322−33%$232 – $397
Iowa IA79$304−37%$171 – $522
Maine ME21$302−37%$183 – $439
Mississippi MS39$281−42%$164 – $539
Vermont VT12$254−47%$146 – $639
Montana MT27$229−52%$151 – $426
Kansas KS72$225−53%$148 – $550
Tennessee TN35$199−59%$180 – $1,032
Oklahoma OK37$188−61%$148 – $549
New Hampshire NH13$127−74%$81 – $429
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $481.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,508$591$284 – $1,717
Children’s51$865$443 – $1,997
Critical access689$293$171 – $552
Ownership
For-profit193$1,015$296 – $3,662
Government470$333$188 – $819
Non-profit1,585$508$241 – $1,252
System affiliation
Part of a system1,793$521$250 – $1,492
Independent461$329$173 – $750

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$791
Median cash price$481
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

1,472 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $531 and the average of the middle 60% is $595; most fall between $248 and $1,231.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,472 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
$170$285$531$1,032$1,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($170 vs $1,934).

Of the 1,592 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,472 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,254 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,432 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,254
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here82
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,432

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 0.6-1.0 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, “Benign skin growth removal, trunk/arm/leg, 0.6–1 cm (CPT 11401) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11401-benign-skin-growth-removal-trunk-arm-leg-0-61-cm