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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, face/ears/lips, 0.5 cm or less

CPT 11440the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting out of a non-cancerous skin lesion on the face, ears, eyelids, nose, or lips, where the removed area measures 0.5 cm or less across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $550 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,906 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $616. Most fall between $202 and $1,372 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,906
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 1,906 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
$136$242$550$1,148$2,087

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($136 vs $2,087).

How the prices are spread

$96 – $137: 102 hospitals$96$137 – $194: 170 hospitals$194 – $277: 198 hospitals$194$277 – $394: 206 hospitals$394 – $561: 188 hospitals$394$561 – $798: 236 hospitals$798 – $1,136: 231 hospitals$798$1,136 – $1,617: 212 hospitals$1,617 – $2,301: 110 hospitals$1,617$2,301 – $3,275: 63 hospitals$2,301median $550price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,716 of 1,906 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$96$137102
$137$194170
$194$277198
$277$394206
$394$561188
$561$798236
$798$1,136231
$1,136$1,617212
$1,617$2,301110
$2,301$3,27563

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$550
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

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 $550.

Alaska: median $624 across 12 hospitalsAK$624Maine: median $312 across 19 hospitalsME$312Vermont: median $286 across 11 hospitalsVT$286New Hampshire: median $179 across 13 hospitalsNH$179Washington: median $526 across 59 hospitalsWA$526Idaho: median $407 across 17 hospitalsID$407Montana: median $219 across 26 hospitalsMT$219North Dakota: median $332 across 20 hospitalsND$332Minnesota: median $420 across 74 hospitalsMN$420Illinois: median $388 across 64 hospitalsIL$388Wisconsin: median $388 across 66 hospitalsWI$388Michigan: median $526 across 72 hospitalsMI$526New York: median $833 across 85 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $824 across 34 hospitalsMA$824Oregon: median $323 across 43 hospitalsOR$323Nevada: median $498 across 10 hospitalsNV$498Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $402 across 19 hospitalsSD$402Iowa: median $323 across 68 hospitalsIA$323Indiana: median $518 across 44 hospitalsIN$518Ohio: median $1,293 across 77 hospitalsOH$1,293Pennsylvania: median $812 across 77 hospitalsPA$812New Jersey: median $939 across 41 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: median $1,020 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,020Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,477 across 108 hospitalsCA$1,477Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $350 across 34 hospitalsCO$350Nebraska: median $320 across 56 hospitalsNE$320Missouri: median $242 across 48 hospitalsMO$242Kentucky: median $307 across 26 hospitalsKY$307West Virginia: median $678 across 36 hospitalsWV$678Virginia: median $902 across 45 hospitalsVA$902Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 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 $724 across 16 hospitalsNM$724Kansas: median $216 across 61 hospitalsKS$216Arkansas: median $247 across 16 hospitalsAR$247Tennessee: median $222 across 34 hospitalsTN$222North Carolina: median $615 across 44 hospitalsNC$615South Carolina: median $1,422 across 40 hospitalsSC$1,422Oklahoma: median $172 across 33 hospitalsOK$172Louisiana: median $517 across 28 hospitalsLA$517Mississippi: median $359 across 38 hospitalsMS$359Alabama: median $673 across 18 hospitalsAL$673Georgia: median $608 across 41 hospitalsGA$608Hawaii: median $1,352 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,352Texas: median $707 across 114 hospitalsTX$707Florida: median $762 across 57 hospitalsFL$762
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $550. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA108$1,477+169%$602 – $2,699
South Carolina SC40$1,422+159%$249 – $2,179
Hawaii HI11$1,352+146%$162 – $2,356
Ohio OH77$1,293+135%$333 – $1,448
Connecticut CT11$1,020+86%$681 – $1,042
New Jersey NJ41$939+71%$779 – $4,744
Virginia VA45$902+64%$271 – $1,230
New York NY85$833+51%$219 – $1,554
Massachusetts MA34$824+50%$499 – $1,411
Pennsylvania PA77$812+48%$222 – $2,063
Florida FL57$762+39%$635 – $2,093
New Mexico NM16$724+32%$246 – $1,150
Texas TX114$707+29%$348 – $1,176
West Virginia WV36$678+23%$187 – $916
Alabama AL18$673+22%$343 – $2,399
Alaska AK12$624+14%$328 – $1,265
North Carolina NC44$615+12%$163 – $866
Georgia GA41$608+11%$402 – $2,501
Washington WA59$526−4%$259 – $1,197
Michigan MI72$526−4%$110 – $1,048
Indiana IN44$518−6%$161 – $927
Louisiana LA28$517−6%$307 – $892
Nevada NV10$498−9%$152 – $770
Minnesota MN74$420−24%$181 – $676
Idaho ID17$407−26%$216 – $1,783
South Dakota SD19$402−27%$275 – $698
Wisconsin WI66$388−29%$239 – $543
Illinois IL64$388−29%$193 – $813
Mississippi MS38$359−35%$177 – $600
Colorado CO34$350−36%$266 – $788
North Dakota ND20$332−40%$168 – $500
Iowa IA68$323−41%$183 – $943
Oregon OR43$323−41%$211 – $1,724
Nebraska NE56$320−42%$228 – $608
Maine ME19$312−43%$176 – $665
Kentucky KY26$307−44%$166 – $831
Vermont VT11$286−48%$196 – $1,174
Arkansas AR16$247−55%$238 – $1,158
Missouri MO48$242−56%$143 – $836
Tennessee TN34$222−60%$136 – $1,149
Montana MT26$219−60%$133 – $403
Kansas KS61$216−61%$145 – $323
New Hampshire NH13$179−67%$66 – $567
Oklahoma OK33$172−69%$119 – $809
Arizona AZ9not 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
Utah UT4not 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 $550.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,249$749$264 – $1,523
Children’s46$914$369 – $3,096
Critical access610$291$162 – $595
Ownership
For-profit153$814$336 – $2,269
Government425$316$170 – $784
Non-profit1,327$611$218 – $1,422
System affiliation
Part of a system1,488$615$237 – $1,422
Independent418$323$153 – $938

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$877
Median cash price$550
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

1,248 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $615 and the average of the middle 60% is $688; most fall between $237 and $1,422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,248 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
$150$271$615$1,227$1,957

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($150 vs $1,957).

Of the 1,361 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,248 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,906 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,063 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,906
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here79
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded74
Hospitals that filed this code2,063

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 F/E/E/N/L/M 0.5cm/<.

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, face/ears/lips, 0.5 cm or less (CPT 11440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11440-benign-skin-growth-removal-face-ears-lips-0-5-cm-or-less