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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, trunk/arm/leg, 1.1–2 cm

CPT 11402the 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 1.1 to 2.0 cm across, including simple closure of the wound.

Hospitals typically charge $678 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,348 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $749. Most fall between $256 and $1,696 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,348
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 2,348 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
$172$302$678$1,372$2,777

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($172 vs $2,777).

How the prices are spread

$121 – $174: 122 hospitals$121$174 – $250: 214 hospitals$250 – $360: 249 hospitals$250$360 – $518: 282 hospitals$518 – $745: 273 hospitals$518$745 – $1,072: 308 hospitals$1,072 – $1,542: 266 hospitals$1,072$1,542 – $2,219: 193 hospitals$2,219 – $3,193: 121 hospitals$2,219$3,193 – $4,595: 92 hospitals$3,193median $678price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,120 of 2,348 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$121$174122
$174$250214
$250$360249
$360$518282
$518$745273
$745$1,072308
$1,072$1,542266
$1,542$2,219193
$2,219$3,193121
$3,193$4,59592

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$678
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.94×

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 $678.

Alaska: median $757 across 14 hospitalsAK$757Maine: median $272 across 22 hospitalsME$272Vermont: median $270 across 12 hospitalsVT$270New Hampshire: median $140 across 14 hospitalsNH$140Washington: median $745 across 71 hospitalsWA$745Idaho: median $441 across 20 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $253 across 25 hospitalsMT$253North Dakota: median $468 across 26 hospitalsND$468Minnesota: median $501 across 83 hospitalsMN$501Illinois: median $526 across 79 hospitalsIL$526Wisconsin: median $481 across 78 hospitalsWI$481Michigan: median $566 across 83 hospitalsMI$566New York: median $833 across 88 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $861 across 47 hospitalsMA$861Oregon: median $353 across 50 hospitalsOR$353Nevada: median $409 across 14 hospitalsNV$409Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $478 across 23 hospitalsSD$478Iowa: median $372 across 80 hospitalsIA$372Indiana: median $712 across 55 hospitalsIN$712Ohio: median $1,281 across 108 hospitalsOH$1,281Pennsylvania: median $837 across 108 hospitalsPA$837New Jersey: median $1,024 across 51 hospitalsNJ$1,024Connecticut: median $645 across 15 hospitalsCT$645Rhode Island: median $792 across 10 hospitalsRI$792California: median $1,461 across 130 hospitalsCA$1,461Utah: median $1,029 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,029Colorado: median $635 across 49 hospitalsCO$635Nebraska: median $375 across 70 hospitalsNE$375Missouri: median $745 across 63 hospitalsMO$745Kentucky: median $447 across 36 hospitalsKY$447West Virginia: median $585 across 34 hospitalsWV$585Virginia: median $916 across 51 hospitalsVA$916Maryland: median $678 across 10 hospitalsMD$678Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,380 across 22 hospitalsAZ$3,380New Mexico: median $1,150 across 15 hospitalsNM$1,150Kansas: median $270 across 74 hospitalsKS$270Arkansas: median $511 across 23 hospitalsAR$511Tennessee: median $215 across 41 hospitalsTN$215North Carolina: median $681 across 55 hospitalsNC$681South Carolina: median $1,936 across 35 hospitalsSC$1,936Oklahoma: median $201 across 40 hospitalsOK$201Louisiana: median $522 across 39 hospitalsLA$522Mississippi: median $270 across 47 hospitalsMS$270Alabama: median $804 across 29 hospitalsAL$804Georgia: median $1,441 across 62 hospitalsGA$1,441Hawaii: median $1,168 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,168Texas: median $813 across 126 hospitalsTX$813Florida: median $1,715 across 70 hospitalsFL$1,715
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $678. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ22$3,380+398%$325 – $3,836
South Carolina SC35$1,936+185%$700 – $2,098
Florida FL70$1,715+153%$706 – $3,232
California CA130$1,461+115%$593 – $2,386
Georgia GA62$1,441+112%$682 – $3,327
Ohio OH108$1,281+89%$424 – $1,520
Hawaii HI11$1,168+72%$194 – $2,356
New Mexico NM15$1,150+70%$340 – $6,327
Utah UT27$1,029+52%$1,029 – $1,143
New Jersey NJ51$1,024+51%$779 – $4,350
Virginia VA51$916+35%$202 – $1,150
Massachusetts MA47$861+27%$499 – $1,634
Pennsylvania PA108$837+23%$420 – $2,185
New York NY88$833+23%$328 – $1,949
Texas TX126$813+20%$351 – $1,522
Alabama AL29$804+19%$468 – $4,358
Rhode Island RI10$792+17%$228 – $1,307
Alaska AK14$757+12%$375 – $1,531
Washington WA71$745+10%$309 – $1,499
Missouri MO63$745+10%$248 – $2,087
Indiana IN55$712+5%$213 – $2,825
North Carolina NC55$6810%$473 – $1,070
Maryland MD10$6780%$431 – $1,234
Connecticut CT15$645−5%$198 – $1,742
Colorado CO49$635−6%$320 – $1,371
West Virginia WV34$585−14%$263 – $1,224
Michigan MI83$566−17%$128 – $1,310
Illinois IL79$526−22%$282 – $1,307
Louisiana LA39$522−23%$306 – $1,262
Arkansas AR23$511−25%$300 – $1,631
Minnesota MN83$501−26%$212 – $876
Wisconsin WI78$481−29%$293 – $1,139
South Dakota SD23$478−30%$217 – $699
North Dakota ND26$468−31%$291 – $781
Kentucky KY36$447−34%$202 – $2,825
Idaho ID20$441−35%$214 – $1,783
Nevada NV14$409−40%$236 – $1,190
Nebraska NE70$375−45%$276 – $433
Iowa IA80$372−45%$188 – $510
Oregon OR50$353−48%$254 – $1,971
Maine ME22$272−60%$116 – $938
Kansas KS74$270−60%$162 – $667
Mississippi MS47$270−60%$201 – $574
Vermont VT12$270−60%$187 – $1,219
Montana MT25$253−63%$119 – $431
Tennessee TN41$215−68%$198 – $3,043
Oklahoma OK40$201−70%$140 – $463
New Hampshire NH14$140−79%$92 – $567
Wyoming WY9not 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 $678.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,579$881$351 – $2,141
Children’s48$997$418 – $3,096
Critical access715$347$194 – $748
Ownership
For-profit214$1,159$441 – $4,063
Government489$387$212 – $1,079
Non-profit1,639$716$272 – $1,710
System affiliation
Part of a system1,856$769$293 – $1,906
Independent492$402$200 – $1,070

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,159
Median cash price$678
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

1,513 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $731 and the average of the middle 60% is $802; most fall between $293 and $1,612.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,513 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
$190$351$731$1,391$2,185

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($190 vs $2,185).

Of the 1,645 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,513 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 87 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,348 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (59%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,535 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,348
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,535

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 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, “Benign skin growth removal, trunk/arm/leg, 1.1–2 cm (CPT 11402) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11402-benign-skin-growth-removal-trunk-arm-leg-1-12-cm