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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, trunk/arm/leg, over 4 cm

CPT 11406the 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 more than 4.0 cm across, including simple closure of the wound.

Hospitals typically charge $1,619 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,044 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,757. Most fall between $539 and $3,859 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,044
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 2,044 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
$330$611$1,619$3,323$5,624

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($330 vs $5,624).

How the prices are spread

$233 – $334: 108 hospitals$233$334 – $479: 144 hospitals$479 – $686: 225 hospitals$479$686 – $983: 183 hospitals$983 – $1,408: 179 hospitals$983$1,408 – $2,017: 297 hospitals$2,017 – $2,890: 205 hospitals$2,017$2,890 – $4,141: 245 hospitals$4,141 – $5,934: 194 hospitals$4,141$5,934 – $8,502: 62 hospitals$5,934median $1,619price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,842 of 2,044 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$233$334108
$334$479144
$479$686225
$686$983183
$983$1,408179
$1,408$2,017297
$2,017$2,890205
$2,890$4,141245
$4,141$5,934194
$5,934$8,50262

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,619
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $1,619.

Alaska: median $1,570 across 14 hospitalsAK$1,570Maine: median $550 across 16 hospitalsME$550Vermont: median $447 across 12 hospitalsVT$447New Hampshire: median $222 across 12 hospitalsNH$222Washington: median $1,695 across 59 hospitalsWA$1,695Idaho: median $1,224 across 20 hospitalsID$1,224Montana: median $562 across 22 hospitalsMT$562North Dakota: median $848 across 20 hospitalsND$848Minnesota: median $1,045 across 72 hospitalsMN$1,045Illinois: median $1,286 across 80 hospitalsIL$1,286Wisconsin: median $1,026 across 70 hospitalsWI$1,026Michigan: median $1,113 across 71 hospitalsMI$1,113New York: median $1,917 across 86 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,891 across 38 hospitalsMA$2,891Oregon: median $725 across 42 hospitalsOR$725Nevada: median $1,158 across 12 hospitalsNV$1,158Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $866 across 18 hospitalsSD$866Iowa: median $775 across 77 hospitalsIA$775Indiana: median $1,678 across 50 hospitalsIN$1,678Ohio: median $3,160 across 96 hospitalsOH$3,160Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 78 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,619 across 44 hospitalsNJ$2,619Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 111 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,307 across 33 hospitalsCO$1,307Nebraska: median $735 across 61 hospitalsNE$735Missouri: median $1,594 across 59 hospitalsMO$1,594Kentucky: median $582 across 28 hospitalsKY$582West Virginia: median $1,533 across 32 hospitalsWV$1,533Virginia: median $4,358 across 44 hospitalsVA$4,358Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,875 across 14 hospitalsAZ$1,875New Mexico: median $1,916 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,916Kansas: median $505 across 63 hospitalsKS$505Arkansas: median $1,462 across 21 hospitalsAR$1,462Tennessee: median $872 across 43 hospitalsTN$872North Carolina: median $1,266 across 51 hospitalsNC$1,266South Carolina: median $2,075 across 36 hospitalsSC$2,075Oklahoma: median $725 across 32 hospitalsOK$725Louisiana: median $1,725 across 36 hospitalsLA$1,725Mississippi: median $1,097 across 38 hospitalsMS$1,097Alabama: median $2,156 across 27 hospitalsAL$2,156Georgia: median $2,055 across 56 hospitalsGA$2,055Hawaii: median $1,494 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,494Texas: median $2,113 across 122 hospitalsTX$2,113Florida: median $3,693 across 65 hospitalsFL$3,693
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,619. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA44$4,358+169%$837 – $10,152
Florida FL65$3,693+128%$1,079 – $4,793
California CA111$3,323+105%$1,069 – $4,794
Ohio OH96$3,160+95%$835 – $4,611
Massachusetts MA38$2,891+79%$1,596 – $5,031
New Jersey NJ44$2,619+62%$1,908 – $5,608
Alabama AL27$2,156+33%$1,474 – $5,464
Texas TX122$2,113+30%$996 – $3,859
South Carolina SC36$2,075+28%$1,670 – $5,624
Georgia GA56$2,055+27%$1,473 – $5,643
Pennsylvania PA78$1,951+21%$429 – $3,675
New York NY86$1,917+18%$514 – $4,410
New Mexico NM14$1,916+18%$840 – $6,938
Arizona AZ14$1,875+16%$363 – $11,404
Louisiana LA36$1,725+7%$1,172 – $2,658
Washington WA59$1,695+5%$599 – $3,464
Indiana IN50$1,678+4%$433 – $4,162
Missouri MO59$1,594−2%$533 – $2,805
Alaska AK14$1,570−3%$824 – $2,942
West Virginia WV32$1,533−5%$673 – $2,364
Hawaii HI10$1,494−8%$369 – $2,976
Arkansas AR21$1,462−10%$590 – $2,831
Colorado CO33$1,307−19%$456 – $3,770
Illinois IL80$1,286−21%$608 – $4,036
North Carolina NC51$1,266−22%$1,113 – $2,785
Idaho ID20$1,224−24%$354 – $4,347
Nevada NV12$1,158−28%$503 – $3,995
Michigan MI71$1,113−31%$278 – $2,872
Mississippi MS38$1,097−32%$451 – $2,942
Minnesota MN72$1,045−35%$513 – $1,802
Wisconsin WI70$1,026−37%$551 – $2,168
Tennessee TN43$872−46%$269 – $4,017
South Dakota SD18$866−47%$645 – $1,534
North Dakota ND20$848−48%$505 – $2,211
Iowa IA77$775−52%$416 – $2,318
Nebraska NE61$735−55%$530 – $1,688
Oklahoma OK32$725−55%$384 – $2,372
Oregon OR42$725−55%$461 – $1,973
Kentucky KY28$582−64%$304 – $2,761
Montana MT22$562−65%$293 – $900
Maine ME16$550−66%$360 – $971
Kansas KS63$505−69%$330 – $1,555
Vermont VT12$447−72%$307 – $1,733
New Hampshire NH12$222−86%$217 – $575
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not 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 $1,619.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,351$1,996$775 – $4,595
Children’s45$2,156$702 – $6,308
Critical access645$703$371 – $1,773
Ownership
For-profit199$2,846$1,093 – $8,222
Government449$931$449 – $2,199
Non-profit1,393$1,737$551 – $3,859
System affiliation
Part of a system1,595$1,793$586 – $4,146
Independent449$873$412 – $2,500

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,670
Median cash price$1,619
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

1,223 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,664 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,729; most fall between $551 and $3,542.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,223 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
$351$611$1,664$3,161$4,674

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($351 vs $4,674).

Of the 1,335 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,223 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 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,044 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,218 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,044
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code2,218

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 >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, over 4 cm (CPT 11406) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11406-benign-skin-growth-removal-trunk-arm-leg-over-4-cm