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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, face/ears/lips, 1.1–2 cm

CPT 11442the 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 1.1 to 2.0 cm across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $708 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,809 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $790. Most fall between $287 and $1,864 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,809
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 1,809 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
$181$332$708$1,450$3,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($181 vs $3,323).

How the prices are spread

$125 – $181: 96 hospitals$125$181 – $263: 148 hospitals$263 – $381: 214 hospitals$263$381 – $553: 233 hospitals$553 – $801: 189 hospitals$553$801 – $1,162: 268 hospitals$1,162 – $1,685: 171 hospitals$1,162$1,685 – $2,443: 138 hospitals$2,443 – $3,542: 114 hospitals$2,443$3,542 – $5,136: 59 hospitals$3,542median $708price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,630 of 1,809 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$125$18196
$181$263148
$263$381214
$381$553233
$553$801189
$801$1,162268
$1,162$1,685171
$1,685$2,443138
$2,443$3,542114
$3,542$5,13659

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$708
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.98×

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 $708.

Alaska: median $1,210 across 14 hospitalsAK$1,210Maine: median $313 across 21 hospitalsME$313Vermont: median $326 across 12 hospitalsVT$326New Hampshire: median $151 across 12 hospitalsNH$151Washington: median $755 across 46 hospitalsWA$755Idaho: median $670 across 14 hospitalsID$670Montana: median $372 across 25 hospitalsMT$372North Dakota: median $463 across 18 hospitalsND$463Minnesota: median $523 across 62 hospitalsMN$523Illinois: median $528 across 63 hospitalsIL$528Wisconsin: median $450 across 65 hospitalsWI$450Michigan: median $646 across 74 hospitalsMI$646New York: median $833 across 87 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $1,404 across 37 hospitalsMA$1,404Oregon: median $445 across 40 hospitalsOR$445Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $534 across 17 hospitalsSD$534Iowa: median $448 across 69 hospitalsIA$448Indiana: median $605 across 43 hospitalsIN$605Ohio: median $1,372 across 99 hospitalsOH$1,372Pennsylvania: median $972 across 72 hospitalsPA$972New Jersey: median $1,150 across 37 hospitalsNJ$1,150Connecticut: median $1,161 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,161Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,544 across 106 hospitalsCA$1,544Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $693 across 29 hospitalsCO$693Nebraska: median $395 across 56 hospitalsNE$395Missouri: median $359 across 45 hospitalsMO$359Kentucky: median $329 across 30 hospitalsKY$329West Virginia: median $792 across 36 hospitalsWV$792Virginia: median $1,587 across 35 hospitalsVA$1,587Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $1,150 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,150Kansas: median $301 across 61 hospitalsKS$301Arkansas: median $356 across 15 hospitalsAR$356Tennessee: median $269 across 23 hospitalsTN$269North Carolina: median $820 across 43 hospitalsNC$820South Carolina: median $2,511 across 31 hospitalsSC$2,511Oklahoma: median $232 across 30 hospitalsOK$232Louisiana: median $726 across 28 hospitalsLA$726Mississippi: median $600 across 32 hospitalsMS$600Alabama: median $918 across 21 hospitalsAL$918Georgia: median $925 across 35 hospitalsGA$925Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,358 across 101 hospitalsTX$1,358Florida: median $895 across 48 hospitalsFL$895
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $708. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC31$2,511+255%$1,073 – $6,367
Virginia VA35$1,587+124%$222 – $2,050
California CA106$1,544+118%$602 – $3,416
Massachusetts MA37$1,404+98%$618 – $2,300
Ohio OH99$1,372+94%$526 – $3,060
Texas TX101$1,358+92%$411 – $1,856
Alaska AK14$1,210+71%$477 – $2,566
Connecticut CT11$1,161+64%$407 – $1,853
New Mexico NM14$1,150+62%$404 – $13,425
New Jersey NJ37$1,150+62%$821 – $5,110
Pennsylvania PA72$972+37%$289 – $2,185
Georgia GA35$925+31%$402 – $3,287
Alabama AL21$918+30%$529 – $5,720
Florida FL48$895+26%$662 – $3,548
New York NY87$833+18%$260 – $2,652
North Carolina NC43$820+16%$428 – $1,731
West Virginia WV36$792+12%$341 – $1,589
Washington WA46$755+7%$310 – $1,499
Louisiana LA28$726+3%$312 – $1,483
Colorado CO29$693−2%$363 – $923
Idaho ID14$670−5%$335 – $1,783
Michigan MI74$646−9%$162 – $2,310
Indiana IN43$605−15%$272 – $1,093
Mississippi MS32$600−15%$280 – $1,841
South Dakota SD17$534−25%$367 – $666
Illinois IL63$528−25%$325 – $1,040
Minnesota MN62$523−26%$291 – $1,074
North Dakota ND18$463−35%$228 – $723
Wisconsin WI65$450−36%$332 – $755
Iowa IA69$448−37%$259 – $652
Oregon OR40$445−37%$283 – $1,655
Nebraska NE56$395−44%$295 – $540
Montana MT25$372−47%$179 – $517
Missouri MO45$359−49%$155 – $831
Arkansas AR15$356−50%$332 – $2,155
Kentucky KY30$329−54%$181 – $1,011
Vermont VT12$326−54%$196 – $547
Maine ME21$313−56%$242 – $719
Kansas KS61$301−57%$187 – $667
Tennessee TN23$269−62%$149 – $1,503
Oklahoma OK30$232−67%$151 – $1,006
New Hampshire NH12$151−79%$112 – $429
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not 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 $708.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,152$916$348 – $2,448
Children’s46$1,404$386 – $3,060
Critical access608$399$222 – $834
Ownership
For-profit149$1,163$482 – $4,057
Government400$454$245 – $1,052
Non-profit1,257$779$291 – $1,998
System affiliation
Part of a system1,392$812$315 – $2,124
Independent417$457$224 – $1,247

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$994
Median cash price$708
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

1,067 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $807 and the average of the middle 60% is $849; most fall between $300 and $1,864.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,067 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
$180$343$807$1,513$2,525

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($180 vs $2,525).

Of the 1,162 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,067 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,809 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,956 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,809
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code1,956

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 Les Mrgn Xcp Sk Tg F/E/E/N/L/M 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 skin growth removal, face/ears/lips, 1.1–2 cm (CPT 11442) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11442-benign-skin-growth-removal-face-ears-lips-1-12-cm