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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, trunk/arm/leg, 3.1–4 cm

CPT 11404the 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 3.1 to 4.0 cm across, including simple closure of the wound.

Hospitals typically charge $1,341 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,979 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,433. Most fall between $383 and $3,255 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,979
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 1,979 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
$245$441$1,341$2,732$4,718

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $4,718).

How the prices are spread

$168 – $243: 86 hospitals$168$243 – $353: 176 hospitals$353 – $511: 213 hospitals$353$511 – $740: 164 hospitals$740 – $1,072: 157 hospitals$740$1,072 – $1,554: 182 hospitals$1,554 – $2,251: 270 hospitals$1,554$2,251 – $3,261: 239 hospitals$3,261 – $4,725: 197 hospitals$3,261$4,725 – $6,845: 99 hospitals$4,725median $1,341price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,783 of 1,979 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$168$24386
$243$353176
$353$511213
$511$740164
$740$1,072157
$1,072$1,554182
$1,554$2,251270
$2,251$3,261239
$3,261$4,725197
$4,725$6,84599

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,341
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.79×

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 $1,341.

Alaska: median $1,177 across 14 hospitalsAK$1,177Maine: median $475 across 17 hospitalsME$475Vermont: median $392 across 12 hospitalsVT$392New Hampshire: median $186 across 13 hospitalsNH$186Washington: median $1,028 across 57 hospitalsWA$1,028Idaho: median $2,157 across 17 hospitalsID$2,157Montana: median $331 across 23 hospitalsMT$331North Dakota: median $590 across 18 hospitalsND$590Minnesota: median $824 across 72 hospitalsMN$824Illinois: median $759 across 74 hospitalsIL$759Wisconsin: median $622 across 72 hospitalsWI$622Michigan: median $1,186 across 72 hospitalsMI$1,186New York: median $1,917 across 87 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,276 across 35 hospitalsMA$2,276Oregon: median $478 across 44 hospitalsOR$478Nevada: median $679 across 10 hospitalsNV$679Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $618 across 18 hospitalsSD$618Iowa: median $486 across 71 hospitalsIA$486Indiana: median $1,100 across 51 hospitalsIN$1,100Ohio: median $2,570 across 94 hospitalsOH$2,570Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 77 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 40 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $2,732 across 13 hospitalsCT$2,732Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,761 across 114 hospitalsCA$2,761Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,391 across 36 hospitalsCO$1,391Nebraska: median $492 across 54 hospitalsNE$492Missouri: median $1,436 across 59 hospitalsMO$1,436Kentucky: median $400 across 25 hospitalsKY$400West Virginia: median $1,505 across 32 hospitalsWV$1,505Virginia: median $3,186 across 47 hospitalsVA$3,186Maryland: 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 $4,709 across 21 hospitalsAZ$4,709New Mexico: median $1,935 across 13 hospitalsNM$1,935Kansas: median $367 across 61 hospitalsKS$367Arkansas: median $544 across 22 hospitalsAR$544Tennessee: median $321 across 33 hospitalsTN$321North Carolina: median $1,081 across 47 hospitalsNC$1,081South Carolina: median $2,133 across 35 hospitalsSC$2,133Oklahoma: median $275 across 28 hospitalsOK$275Louisiana: median $1,785 across 33 hospitalsLA$1,785Mississippi: median $1,117 across 38 hospitalsMS$1,117Alabama: median $2,018 across 25 hospitalsAL$2,018Georgia: median $1,886 across 52 hospitalsGA$1,886Hawaii: median $1,494 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,494Texas: median $1,824 across 95 hospitalsTX$1,824Florida: median $3,753 across 69 hospitalsFL$3,753
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,341. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ21$4,709+251%$629 – $7,763
Florida FL69$3,753+180%$1,079 – $4,793
Virginia VA47$3,186+138%$747 – $5,062
California CA114$2,761+106%$1,206 – $6,317
Connecticut CT13$2,732+104%$885 – $3,723
Ohio OH94$2,570+92%$950 – $3,160
Massachusetts MA35$2,276+70%$925 – $3,184
New Jersey NJ40$2,162+61%$1,795 – $5,608
Idaho ID17$2,157+61%$335 – $4,347
South Carolina SC35$2,133+59%$1,675 – $4,986
Alabama AL25$2,018+50%$612 – $4,812
Pennsylvania PA77$1,951+45%$408 – $3,265
New Mexico NM13$1,935+44%$681 – $6,684
New York NY87$1,917+43%$303 – $4,595
Georgia GA52$1,886+41%$1,454 – $3,600
Texas TX95$1,824+36%$774 – $3,255
Louisiana LA33$1,785+33%$863 – $3,055
West Virginia WV32$1,505+12%$549 – $3,433
Hawaii HI10$1,494+11%$259 – $3,522
Missouri MO59$1,436+7%$311 – $2,836
Colorado CO36$1,391+4%$407 – $2,255
Michigan MI72$1,186−12%$187 – $2,623
Alaska AK14$1,177−12%$618 – $2,654
Mississippi MS38$1,117−17%$349 – $1,415
Indiana IN51$1,100−18%$406 – $3,325
North Carolina NC47$1,081−19%$880 – $2,140
Washington WA57$1,028−23%$422 – $2,429
Minnesota MN72$824−39%$364 – $1,441
Illinois IL74$759−43%$397 – $4,145
Nevada NV10$679−49%$247 – $1,796
Wisconsin WI72$622−54%$384 – $1,463
South Dakota SD18$618−54%$400 – $1,534
North Dakota ND18$590−56%$400 – $1,664
Arkansas AR22$544−59%$449 – $1,693
Nebraska NE54$492−63%$346 – $971
Iowa IA71$486−64%$301 – $1,151
Oregon OR44$478−64%$213 – $3,976
Maine ME17$475−65%$275 – $827
Kentucky KY25$400−70%$209 – $1,688
Vermont VT12$392−71%$259 – $1,733
Kansas KS61$367−73%$254 – $1,151
Montana MT23$331−75%$211 – $649
Tennessee TN33$321−76%$240 – $3,368
Oklahoma OK28$275−79%$270 – $2,847
New Hampshire NH13$186−86%$133 – $1,250
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not 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 $1,341.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,311$1,908$574 – $4,123
Children’s43$2,113$508 – $7,072
Critical access619$486$276 – $1,290
Ownership
For-profit177$2,357$795 – $5,593
Government432$612$317 – $1,929
Non-profit1,364$1,475$385 – $3,376
System affiliation
Part of a system1,537$1,559$421 – $3,580
Independent442$572$292 – $2,043

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,110
Median cash price$1,341
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

1,199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,441 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,460; most fall between $384 and $2,925.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,199 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
$252$446$1,441$2,688$4,347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($252 vs $4,347).

Of the 1,312 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,199 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,979 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (50%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,151 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,979
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded82
Hospitals that filed this code2,151

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 3.1-4.0 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, 3.1–4 cm (CPT 11404) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11404-benign-skin-growth-removal-trunk-arm-leg-3-14-cm