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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign growth removal, scalp/neck/hands/feet, over 4 cm

CPT 11426the 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 more than 4.0 cm across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $2,023 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,696 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,216. Most fall between $567 and $5,054 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,696
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 1,696 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
$364$656$2,023$4,293$7,242

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($364 vs $7,242).

How the prices are spread

$258 – $369: 88 hospitals$258$369 – $529: 135 hospitals$529 – $757: 187 hospitals$529$757 – $1,085: 159 hospitals$1,085 – $1,554: 103 hospitals$1,085$1,554 – $2,227: 133 hospitals$2,227 – $3,190: 187 hospitals$2,227$3,190 – $4,570: 225 hospitals$4,570 – $6,547: 183 hospitals$4,570$6,547 – $9,379: 133 hospitals$6,547median $2,023price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,533 of 1,696 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$258$36988
$369$529135
$529$757187
$757$1,085159
$1,085$1,554103
$1,554$2,227133
$2,227$3,190187
$3,190$4,570225
$4,570$6,547183
$6,547$9,379133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,023
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 $2,023.

Alaska: median $1,667 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,667Maine: median $646 across 14 hospitalsME$646Vermont: median $633 across 10 hospitalsVT$633New Hampshire: median $355 across 12 hospitalsNH$355Washington: median $1,285 across 53 hospitalsWA$1,285Idaho: median $2,162 across 18 hospitalsID$2,162Montana: median $686 across 19 hospitalsMT$686North Dakota: median $933 across 14 hospitalsND$933Minnesota: median $993 across 60 hospitalsMN$993Illinois: median $1,714 across 66 hospitalsIL$1,714Wisconsin: median $938 across 62 hospitalsWI$938Michigan: median $787 across 55 hospitalsMI$787New York: median $3,387 across 78 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $3,856 across 35 hospitalsMA$3,856Oregon: median $785 across 44 hospitalsOR$785Nevada: median $1,288 across 13 hospitalsNV$1,288Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $905 across 12 hospitalsSD$905Iowa: median $786 across 67 hospitalsIA$786Indiana: median $1,786 across 42 hospitalsIN$1,786Ohio: median $3,483 across 80 hospitalsOH$3,483Pennsylvania: median $3,302 across 67 hospitalsPA$3,302New Jersey: median $3,786 across 42 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: median $4,784 across 11 hospitalsCT$4,784Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,682 across 98 hospitalsCA$3,682Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,953 across 29 hospitalsCO$1,953Nebraska: median $716 across 44 hospitalsNE$716Missouri: median $2,189 across 50 hospitalsMO$2,189Kentucky: median $730 across 25 hospitalsKY$730West Virginia: median $1,979 across 30 hospitalsWV$1,979Virginia: median $3,447 across 37 hospitalsVA$3,447Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,565 across 12 hospitalsAZ$3,565New Mexico: median $3,334 across 13 hospitalsNM$3,334Kansas: median $540 across 54 hospitalsKS$540Arkansas: median $1,055 across 18 hospitalsAR$1,055Tennessee: median $471 across 26 hospitalsTN$471North Carolina: median $2,102 across 45 hospitalsNC$2,102South Carolina: median $4,649 across 14 hospitalsSC$4,649Oklahoma: median $400 across 24 hospitalsOK$400Louisiana: median $1,817 across 32 hospitalsLA$1,817Mississippi: median $1,647 across 23 hospitalsMS$1,647Alabama: median $3,000 across 20 hospitalsAL$3,000Georgia: median $4,734 across 54 hospitalsGA$4,734Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,745 across 84 hospitalsTX$2,745Florida: median $4,002 across 45 hospitalsFL$4,002
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,023. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT11$4,784+137%$2,641 – $5,428
Georgia GA54$4,734+134%$1,441 – $7,242
South Carolina SC14$4,649+130%$2,806 – $6,751
Florida FL45$4,002+98%$2,087 – $6,195
Massachusetts MA35$3,856+91%$1,437 – $4,945
New Jersey NJ42$3,786+87%$3,168 – $5,339
California CA98$3,682+82%$1,412 – $7,454
Arizona AZ12$3,565+76%$1,012 – $13,560
Ohio OH80$3,483+72%$775 – $5,581
Virginia VA37$3,447+70%$2,444 – $8,441
New York NY78$3,387+67%$460 – $4,595
New Mexico NM13$3,334+65%$892 – $10,499
Pennsylvania PA67$3,302+63%$572 – $6,163
Alabama AL20$3,000+48%$940 – $4,825
Texas TX84$2,745+36%$900 – $4,799
Missouri MO50$2,189+8%$596 – $4,122
Idaho ID18$2,162+7%$486 – $7,765
North Carolina NC45$2,102+4%$1,764 – $4,653
West Virginia WV30$1,979−2%$314 – $3,339
Colorado CO29$1,953−3%$602 – $6,313
Louisiana LA32$1,817−10%$819 – $4,599
Indiana IN42$1,786−12%$486 – $4,810
Illinois IL66$1,714−15%$735 – $5,401
Alaska AK12$1,667−18%$875 – $3,280
Mississippi MS23$1,647−19%$494 – $4,747
Nevada NV13$1,288−36%$278 – $4,512
Washington WA53$1,285−36%$647 – $4,405
Arkansas AR18$1,055−48%$581 – $3,641
Minnesota MN60$993−51%$507 – $2,988
Wisconsin WI62$938−54%$588 – $2,201
North Dakota ND14$933−54%$583 – $3,558
South Dakota SD12$905−55%$801 – $1,355
Michigan MI55$787−61%$230 – $8,441
Iowa IA67$786−61%$446 – $1,696
Oregon OR44$785−61%$480 – $6,970
Kentucky KY25$730−64%$345 – $3,063
Nebraska NE44$716−65%$558 – $1,591
Montana MT19$686−66%$302 – $996
Maine ME14$646−68%$262 – $1,341
Vermont VT10$633−69%$434 – $1,685
Kansas KS54$540−73%$334 – $2,467
Tennessee TN26$471−77%$364 – $5,586
Oklahoma OK24$400−80%$400 – $5,835
New Hampshire NH12$355−82%$258 – $863
Hawaii HI7not 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 DE3not 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 $2,023.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,124$3,017$788 – $5,854
Children’s32$1,723$550 – $4,667
Critical access538$768$401 – $2,242
Ownership
For-profit162$4,108$972 – $8,395
Government372$952$487 – $3,301
Non-profit1,160$2,189$582 – $5,159
System affiliation
Part of a system1,294$2,414$605 – $5,559
Independent402$989$426 – $3,710

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,306
Median cash price$2,023
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

970 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,032 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,216; most fall between $588 and $4,988.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 970 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
$391$683$2,032$4,096$6,820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($391 vs $6,820).

Of the 1,072 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 970 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,696 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,853 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,696
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded72
Hospitals that filed this code1,853

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 > 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, over 4 cm (CPT 11426) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11426-benign-growth-removal-scalp-neck-hands-feet-over-4-cm