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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign growth removal, scalp/neck/hands/feet, 3.1–4 cm

CPT 11424the 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 3.1 to 4.0 cm across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,334 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,677 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,467. Most fall between $398 and $3,580 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,677
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 1,677 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
$266$460$1,334$2,916$5,271

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($266 vs $5,271).

How the prices are spread

$177 – $257: 78 hospitals$177$257 – $372: 150 hospitals$372 – $540: 190 hospitals$372$540 – $782: 170 hospitals$782 – $1,133: 108 hospitals$782$1,133 – $1,641: 158 hospitals$1,641 – $2,377: 235 hospitals$1,641$2,377 – $3,444: 158 hospitals$3,444 – $4,989: 163 hospitals$3,444$4,989 – $7,228: 102 hospitals$4,989median $1,334price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,512 of 1,677 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$177$25778
$257$372150
$372$540190
$540$782170
$782$1,133108
$1,133$1,641158
$1,641$2,377235
$2,377$3,444158
$3,444$4,989163
$4,989$7,228102

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,334
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 $1,334.

Alaska: median $1,183 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,183Maine: median $400 across 15 hospitalsME$400Vermont: median $492 across 11 hospitalsVT$492New Hampshire: median $201 across 13 hospitalsNH$201Washington: median $770 across 50 hospitalsWA$770Idaho: median $1,224 across 16 hospitalsID$1,224Montana: median $384 across 22 hospitalsMT$384North Dakota: median $628 across 15 hospitalsND$628Minnesota: median $617 across 55 hospitalsMN$617Illinois: median $933 across 67 hospitalsIL$933Wisconsin: median $555 across 62 hospitalsWI$555Michigan: median $463 across 52 hospitalsMI$463New York: median $1,917 across 85 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,484 across 33 hospitalsMA$2,484Oregon: median $439 across 40 hospitalsOR$439Nevada: median $750 across 10 hospitalsNV$750Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,531 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,531Iowa: median $552 across 64 hospitalsIA$552Indiana: median $963 across 42 hospitalsIN$963Ohio: median $2,248 across 75 hospitalsOH$2,248Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 76 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 37 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,219 across 109 hospitalsCA$3,219Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,461 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,461Nebraska: median $541 across 46 hospitalsNE$541Missouri: median $1,702 across 49 hospitalsMO$1,702Kentucky: median $421 across 23 hospitalsKY$421West Virginia: median $1,257 across 30 hospitalsWV$1,257Virginia: median $2,815 across 37 hospitalsVA$2,815Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $2,037 across 13 hospitalsNM$2,037Kansas: median $398 across 59 hospitalsKS$398Arkansas: median $989 across 15 hospitalsAR$989Tennessee: median $355 across 26 hospitalsTN$355North Carolina: median $1,243 across 41 hospitalsNC$1,243South Carolina: median $4,601 across 25 hospitalsSC$4,601Oklahoma: median $284 across 23 hospitalsOK$284Louisiana: median $1,450 across 27 hospitalsLA$1,450Mississippi: median $1,400 across 25 hospitalsMS$1,400Alabama: median $1,984 across 22 hospitalsAL$1,984Georgia: median $2,244 across 34 hospitalsGA$2,244Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,113 across 78 hospitalsTX$2,113Florida: median $3,194 across 41 hospitalsFL$3,194
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,334. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC25$4,601+245%$3,384 – $5,230
California CA109$3,219+141%$1,360 – $6,317
Florida FL41$3,194+139%$1,270 – $4,098
Virginia VA37$2,815+111%$1,004 – $5,209
Massachusetts MA33$2,484+86%$1,370 – $4,198
Ohio OH75$2,248+68%$532 – $3,160
Georgia GA34$2,244+68%$1,648 – $5,810
New Jersey NJ37$2,162+62%$1,795 – $5,607
Texas TX78$2,113+58%$626 – $3,636
New Mexico NM13$2,037+53%$623 – $6,614
Alabama AL22$1,984+49%$656 – $5,374
Pennsylvania PA76$1,951+46%$464 – $4,334
New York NY85$1,917+44%$322 – $4,595
Missouri MO49$1,702+28%$490 – $4,676
South Dakota SD15$1,531+15%$453 – $2,172
Colorado CO35$1,461+9%$337 – $3,865
Louisiana LA27$1,450+9%$448 – $2,472
Mississippi MS25$1,400+5%$318 – $3,663
West Virginia WV30$1,257−6%$484 – $1,899
North Carolina NC41$1,243−7%$1,158 – $2,359
Idaho ID16$1,224−8%$509 – $4,347
Alaska AK12$1,183−11%$621 – $2,138
Arkansas AR15$989−26%$460 – $2,355
Indiana IN42$963−28%$415 – $1,752
Illinois IL67$933−30%$462 – $2,609
Washington WA50$770−42%$437 – $2,554
Nevada NV10$750−44%$218 – $1,796
North Dakota ND15$628−53%$392 – $960
Minnesota MN55$617−54%$383 – $1,735
Wisconsin WI62$555−58%$412 – $1,266
Iowa IA64$552−59%$338 – $1,059
Nebraska NE46$541−59%$419 – $1,795
Vermont VT11$492−63%$299 – $988
Michigan MI52$463−65%$151 – $2,658
Oregon OR40$439−67%$330 – $849
Kentucky KY23$421−68%$230 – $1,242
Maine ME15$400−70%$279 – $900
Kansas KS59$398−70%$286 – $1,440
Montana MT22$384−71%$221 – $662
Tennessee TN26$355−73%$300 – $3,710
Oklahoma OK23$284−79%$284 – $3,303
New Hampshire NH13$201−85%$156 – $492
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $1,334.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,108$1,921$555 – $4,545
Children’s31$1,143$444 – $2,533
Critical access534$513$295 – $1,377
Ownership
For-profit152$2,403$853 – $6,867
Government370$629$338 – $2,248
Non-profit1,151$1,470$411 – $3,636
System affiliation
Part of a system1,274$1,582$437 – $3,968
Independent403$611$302 – $2,430

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,190
Median cash price$1,334
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

990 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,461 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,531; most fall between $412 and $3,396.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 990 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
$284$462$1,461$2,977$4,610

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($284 vs $4,610).

Of the 1,093 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 990 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 66 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,677 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,826 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,677
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code1,826

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 3.1-4.0cm.

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, 3.1–4 cm (CPT 11424) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11424-benign-growth-removal-scalp-neck-hands-feet-3-14-cm