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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, scalp/neck/hands/feet, 0.5 cm

CPT 11420the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting out of a non-cancerous skin lesion on the scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genital area, where the removed area measures 0.5 cm or less across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,075 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,149 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,116. Most fall between $206 and $2,496 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,149
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 2,149 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
$134$252$1,075$2,146$4,117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($134 vs $4,117).

How the prices are spread

$93 – $139: 120 hospitals$93$139 – $209: 207 hospitals$209 – $312: 239 hospitals$209$312 – $468: 139 hospitals$468 – $701: 111 hospitals$468$701 – $1,049: 133 hospitals$1,049 – $1,571: 254 hospitals$1,049$1,571 – $2,353: 362 hospitals$2,353 – $3,524: 193 hospitals$2,353$3,524 – $5,277: 178 hospitals$3,524median $1,075price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,936 of 2,149 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$93$139120
$139$209207
$209$312239
$312$468139
$468$701111
$701$1,049133
$1,049$1,571254
$1,571$2,353362
$2,353$3,524193
$3,524$5,277178

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,075
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.64×

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 $1,075.

Alaska: median $565 across 13 hospitalsAK$565Maine: median $248 across 21 hospitalsME$248Vermont: median $259 across 11 hospitalsVT$259New Hampshire: median $118 across 15 hospitalsNH$118Washington: median $703 across 56 hospitalsWA$703Idaho: median $1,163 across 19 hospitalsID$1,163Montana: median $187 across 25 hospitalsMT$187North Dakota: median $348 across 20 hospitalsND$348Minnesota: median $408 across 70 hospitalsMN$408Illinois: median $634 across 81 hospitalsIL$634Wisconsin: median $294 across 73 hospitalsWI$294Michigan: median $663 across 75 hospitalsMI$663New York: median $1,917 across 91 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $1,605 across 46 hospitalsMA$1,605Oregon: median $291 across 49 hospitalsOR$291Nevada: median $388 across 12 hospitalsNV$388Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $357 across 18 hospitalsSD$357Iowa: median $272 across 73 hospitalsIA$272Indiana: median $528 across 46 hospitalsIN$528Ohio: median $1,533 across 86 hospitalsOH$1,533Pennsylvania: median $1,750 across 92 hospitalsPA$1,750New Jersey: median $2,162 across 53 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $1,867 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,867Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,496 across 119 hospitalsCA$2,496Utah: median $2,369 across 27 hospitalsUT$2,369Colorado: median $941 across 46 hospitalsCO$941Nebraska: median $269 across 54 hospitalsNE$269Missouri: median $828 across 61 hospitalsMO$828Kentucky: median $533 across 37 hospitalsKY$533West Virginia: median $1,533 across 35 hospitalsWV$1,533Virginia: median $1,650 across 49 hospitalsVA$1,650Maryland: 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 $1,587 across 20 hospitalsAZ$1,587New Mexico: median $1,385 across 13 hospitalsNM$1,385Kansas: median $202 across 61 hospitalsKS$202Arkansas: median $981 across 22 hospitalsAR$981Tennessee: median $261 across 34 hospitalsTN$261North Carolina: median $1,056 across 44 hospitalsNC$1,056South Carolina: median $1,208 across 33 hospitalsSC$1,208Oklahoma: median $153 across 41 hospitalsOK$153Louisiana: median $821 across 35 hospitalsLA$821Mississippi: median $432 across 36 hospitalsMS$432Alabama: median $1,700 across 27 hospitalsAL$1,700Georgia: median $1,547 across 65 hospitalsGA$1,547Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,650 across 117 hospitalsTX$1,650Florida: median $1,623 across 73 hospitalsFL$1,623
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,075. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA119$2,496+132%$993 – $3,797
Utah UT27$2,369+120%$2,369 – $2,632
New Jersey NJ53$2,162+101%$1,793 – $5,419
New York NY91$1,917+78%$239 – $4,582
Connecticut CT17$1,867+74%$845 – $3,340
Pennsylvania PA92$1,750+63%$380 – $3,053
Alabama AL27$1,700+58%$918 – $2,733
Texas TX117$1,650+54%$415 – $2,146
Virginia VA49$1,650+54%$261 – $2,344
Florida FL73$1,623+51%$514 – $4,284
Massachusetts MA46$1,605+49%$741 – $2,403
Arizona AZ20$1,587+48%$382 – $1,607
Georgia GA65$1,547+44%$912 – $2,747
Ohio OH86$1,533+43%$799 – $3,160
West Virginia WV35$1,533+43%$218 – $2,015
New Mexico NM13$1,385+29%$212 – $5,564
South Carolina SC33$1,208+12%$1,073 – $3,215
Idaho ID19$1,163+8%$197 – $4,347
North Carolina NC44$1,056−2%$781 – $1,780
Arkansas AR22$981−9%$203 – $2,293
Colorado CO46$941−12%$315 – $1,942
Missouri MO61$828−23%$176 – $2,651
Louisiana LA35$821−24%$491 – $1,880
Washington WA56$703−35%$232 – $2,253
Michigan MI75$663−38%$93 – $2,271
Illinois IL81$634−41%$194 – $1,698
Alaska AK13$565−47%$270 – $2,705
Kentucky KY37$533−50%$144 – $1,921
Indiana IN46$528−51%$168 – $1,578
Mississippi MS36$432−60%$170 – $986
Minnesota MN70$408−62%$185 – $1,689
Nevada NV12$388−64%$265 – $1,680
South Dakota SD18$357−67%$316 – $1,611
North Dakota ND20$348−68%$203 – $2,115
Wisconsin WI73$294−73%$218 – $1,226
Oregon OR49$291−73%$187 – $2,241
Iowa IA73$272−75%$156 – $652
Nebraska NE54$269−75%$207 – $663
Tennessee TN34$261−76%$207 – $2,065
Vermont VT11$259−76%$152 – $1,733
Maine ME21$248−77%$160 – $1,629
Kansas KS61$202−81%$110 – $837
Montana MT25$187−83%$109 – $340
Oklahoma OK41$153−86%$105 – $1,907
New Hampshire NH15$118−89%$65 – $492
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not 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 $1,075.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,459$1,587$345 – $3,254
Children’s38$998$290 – $1,907
Critical access649$265$144 – $950
Ownership
For-profit202$1,766$625 – $5,192
Government461$329$167 – $1,729
Non-profit1,483$1,208$218 – $2,596
System affiliation
Part of a system1,697$1,266$236 – $2,698
Independent452$367$155 – $1,872

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,777
Median cash price$1,075
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

1,413 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,250 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,253; most fall between $248 and $2,558.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,413 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
$153$295$1,250$2,241$3,797

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($153 vs $3,797).

Of the 1,558 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,413 gave a usable cash price; 56 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,149 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,351 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,149
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here100
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 — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,351

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 S/N/H/F/G 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, “Benign skin growth removal, scalp/neck/hands/feet, 0.5 cm (CPT 11420) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11420-benign-skin-growth-removal-scalp-neck-hands-feet-0-5-cm