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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign growth removal, scalp/neck/hands/feet, 1.1–2 cm

CPT 11422the 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 1.1 to 2.0 cm across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,155 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,185 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,276. Most fall between $293 and $3,094 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,185
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 2,185 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
$188$337$1,155$2,506$4,595

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($188 vs $4,595).

How the prices are spread

$116 – $174: 90 hospitals$116$174 – $261: 170 hospitals$261 – $391: 262 hospitals$261$391 – $588: 193 hospitals$588 – $882: 147 hospitals$588$882 – $1,325: 175 hospitals$1,325 – $1,990: 339 hospitals$1,325$1,990 – $2,988: 242 hospitals$2,988 – $4,486: 208 hospitals$2,988$4,486 – $6,736: 141 hospitals$4,486median $1,155price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,967 of 2,185 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$116$17490
$174$261170
$261$391262
$391$588193
$588$882147
$882$1,325175
$1,325$1,990339
$1,990$2,988242
$2,988$4,486208
$4,486$6,736141

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,155
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $1,155.

Alaska: median $801 across 15 hospitalsAK$801Maine: median $347 across 17 hospitalsME$347Vermont: median $372 across 12 hospitalsVT$372New Hampshire: median $223 across 15 hospitalsNH$223Washington: median $947 across 68 hospitalsWA$947Idaho: median $385 across 20 hospitalsID$385Montana: median $372 across 27 hospitalsMT$372North Dakota: median $434 across 22 hospitalsND$434Minnesota: median $598 across 74 hospitalsMN$598Illinois: median $664 across 81 hospitalsIL$664Wisconsin: median $580 across 69 hospitalsWI$580Michigan: median $965 across 73 hospitalsMI$965New York: median $1,917 across 93 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $1,425 across 44 hospitalsMA$1,425Oregon: median $398 across 42 hospitalsOR$398Nevada: median $639 across 11 hospitalsNV$639Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $516 across 19 hospitalsSD$516Iowa: median $403 across 72 hospitalsIA$403Indiana: median $888 across 55 hospitalsIN$888Ohio: median $2,065 across 110 hospitalsOH$2,065Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 100 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 44 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $2,312 across 14 hospitalsCT$2,312Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,558 across 125 hospitalsCA$2,558Utah: median $94 across 26 hospitalsUT$94Colorado: median $915 across 38 hospitalsCO$915Nebraska: median $368 across 60 hospitalsNE$368Missouri: median $829 across 62 hospitalsMO$829Kentucky: median $416 across 31 hospitalsKY$416West Virginia: median $1,064 across 35 hospitalsWV$1,064Virginia: median $1,585 across 48 hospitalsVA$1,585Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,562 across 22 hospitalsAZ$4,562New Mexico: median $1,935 across 15 hospitalsNM$1,935Kansas: median $288 across 67 hospitalsKS$288Arkansas: median $564 across 24 hospitalsAR$564Tennessee: median $412 across 38 hospitalsTN$412North Carolina: median $1,029 across 47 hospitalsNC$1,029South Carolina: median $1,332 across 38 hospitalsSC$1,332Oklahoma: median $216 across 35 hospitalsOK$216Louisiana: median $884 across 35 hospitalsLA$884Mississippi: median $784 across 45 hospitalsMS$784Alabama: median $1,956 across 20 hospitalsAL$1,956Georgia: median $3,092 across 42 hospitalsGA$3,092Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,704 across 138 hospitalsTX$1,704Florida: median $1,977 across 62 hospitalsFL$1,977
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,155. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ22$4,562+295%$504 – $7,509
Georgia GA42$3,092+168%$1,051 – $4,963
California CA125$2,558+121%$1,412 – $3,914
Connecticut CT14$2,312+100%$1,533 – $8,551
New Jersey NJ44$2,162+87%$1,880 – $5,110
Ohio OH110$2,065+79%$1,155 – $3,160
Florida FL62$1,977+71%$1,229 – $4,793
Alabama AL20$1,956+69%$497 – $4,990
Pennsylvania PA100$1,951+69%$348 – $3,489
New Mexico NM15$1,935+68%$366 – $8,170
New York NY93$1,917+66%$348 – $4,277
Texas TX138$1,704+48%$580 – $2,500
Virginia VA48$1,585+37%$294 – $3,810
Massachusetts MA44$1,425+23%$818 – $2,403
South Carolina SC38$1,332+15%$331 – $3,428
West Virginia WV35$1,064−8%$341 – $1,823
North Carolina NC47$1,029−11%$780 – $1,800
Michigan MI73$965−16%$144 – $2,938
Washington WA68$947−18%$328 – $3,114
Colorado CO38$915−21%$335 – $2,218
Indiana IN55$888−23%$318 – $3,620
Louisiana LA35$884−23%$639 – $2,403
Missouri MO62$829−28%$249 – $3,733
Alaska AK15$801−31%$441 – $2,726
Mississippi MS45$784−32%$274 – $1,278
Illinois IL81$664−43%$310 – $3,720
Nevada NV11$639−45%$233 – $1,796
Minnesota MN74$598−48%$290 – $1,522
Wisconsin WI69$580−50%$310 – $1,075
Arkansas AR24$564−51%$332 – $2,579
South Dakota SD19$516−55%$489 – $1,534
North Dakota ND22$434−62%$303 – $1,664
Kentucky KY31$416−64%$217 – $1,921
Tennessee TN38$412−64%$278 – $2,555
Iowa IA72$403−65%$241 – $1,211
Oregon OR42$398−66%$264 – $4,008
Idaho ID20$385−67%$116 – $4,347
Montana MT27$372−68%$168 – $578
Vermont VT12$372−68%$181 – $2,541
Nebraska NE60$368−68%$235 – $693
Maine ME17$347−70%$180 – $797
Kansas KS67$288−75%$179 – $993
New Hampshire NH15$223−81%$106 – $810
Oklahoma OK35$216−81%$152 – $962
Utah UT26$94−92%$72 – $94
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $1,155.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,476$1,704$440 – $3,888
Children’s48$1,816$508 – $7,072
Critical access656$366$210 – $1,004
Ownership
For-profit206$2,289$750 – $5,758
Government454$462$237 – $1,987
Non-profit1,520$1,267$307 – $3,114
System affiliation
Part of a system1,721$1,452$328 – $3,428
Independent464$455$220 – $1,987

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,871
Median cash price$1,155
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

1,363 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,216 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,298; most fall between $308 and $2,912.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,363 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
$192$355$1,216$2,485$4,055

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($192 vs $4,055).

Of the 1,482 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,363 gave a usable cash price; 42 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,185 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,361 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,185
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here87
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded81
Hospitals that filed this code2,361

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 1.1-2.0cm.

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 growth removal, scalp/neck/hands/feet, 1.1–2 cm (CPT 11422) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11422-benign-growth-removal-scalp-neck-hands-feet-1-12-cm