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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Benign skin growth removal, face/ears/lips, 2.1–3 cm

CPT 11443the 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 2.1 to 3.0 cm across, including simple closure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,025 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,621 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,190. Most fall between $366 and $2,656 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,621
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 1,621 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
$227$418$1,025$2,298$4,381

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($227 vs $4,381).

How the prices are spread

$163 – $231: 89 hospitals$163$231 – $329: 110 hospitals$329 – $468: 198 hospitals$329$468 – $667: 183 hospitals$667 – $949: 125 hospitals$667$949 – $1,350: 128 hospitals$1,350 – $1,922: 193 hospitals$1,350$1,922 – $2,735: 196 hospitals$2,735 – $3,892: 120 hospitals$2,735$3,892 – $5,539: 117 hospitals$3,892median $1,025price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,459 of 1,621 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$163$23189
$231$329110
$329$468198
$468$667183
$667$949125
$949$1,350128
$1,350$1,922193
$1,922$2,735196
$2,735$3,892120
$3,892$5,539117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,025
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.61×

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 $1,025.

Alaska: median $1,102 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,102Maine: median $431 across 14 hospitalsME$431Vermont: median $428 across 11 hospitalsVT$428New Hampshire: median $215 across 11 hospitalsNH$215Washington: median $994 across 47 hospitalsWA$994Idaho: median $1,163 across 16 hospitalsID$1,163Montana: median $406 across 21 hospitalsMT$406North Dakota: median $630 across 14 hospitalsND$630Minnesota: median $631 across 53 hospitalsMN$631Illinois: median $733 across 59 hospitalsIL$733Wisconsin: median $565 across 63 hospitalsWI$565Michigan: median $410 across 50 hospitalsMI$410New York: median $1,917 across 81 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $1,685 across 26 hospitalsMA$1,685Oregon: median $548 across 39 hospitalsOR$548Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $627 across 16 hospitalsSD$627Iowa: median $542 across 59 hospitalsIA$542Indiana: median $839 across 37 hospitalsIN$839Ohio: median $2,320 across 82 hospitalsOH$2,320Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 71 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 43 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,475 across 96 hospitalsCA$2,475Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $798 across 29 hospitalsCO$798Nebraska: median $523 across 53 hospitalsNE$523Missouri: median $828 across 40 hospitalsMO$828Kentucky: median $432 across 23 hospitalsKY$432West Virginia: median $1,025 across 30 hospitalsWV$1,025Virginia: median $2,051 across 30 hospitalsVA$2,051Maryland: 4 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 $837 across 10 hospitalsNM$837Kansas: median $395 across 55 hospitalsKS$395Arkansas: median $662 across 15 hospitalsAR$662Tennessee: median $321 across 21 hospitalsTN$321North Carolina: median $1,200 across 39 hospitalsNC$1,200South Carolina: median $3,048 across 32 hospitalsSC$3,048Oklahoma: median $314 across 29 hospitalsOK$314Louisiana: median $873 across 28 hospitalsLA$873Mississippi: median $1,101 across 27 hospitalsMS$1,101Alabama: median $1,631 across 19 hospitalsAL$1,631Georgia: median $927 across 27 hospitalsGA$927Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,737 across 102 hospitalsTX$1,737Florida: median $3,548 across 39 hospitalsFL$3,548
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,025. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL39$3,548+246%$1,210 – $4,357
South Carolina SC32$3,048+197%$1,515 – $3,500
California CA96$2,475+142%$831 – $5,320
Ohio OH82$2,320+126%$447 – $3,160
New Jersey NJ43$2,162+111%$1,795 – $5,855
Virginia VA30$2,051+100%$224 – $4,852
Pennsylvania PA71$1,951+90%$475 – $3,394
New York NY81$1,917+87%$421 – $4,595
Texas TX102$1,737+69%$710 – $2,468
Massachusetts MA26$1,685+64%$1,196 – $2,314
Alabama AL19$1,631+59%$414 – $5,244
North Carolina NC39$1,200+17%$1,033 – $2,211
Idaho ID16$1,163+14%$552 – $4,347
Alaska AK12$1,102+8%$850 – $2,110
Mississippi MS27$1,101+7%$308 – $1,884
West Virginia WV30$1,0250%$282 – $3,043
Washington WA47$994−3%$429 – $2,460
Georgia GA27$927−10%$100 – $4,407
Louisiana LA28$873−15%$639 – $2,403
Indiana IN37$839−18%$272 – $1,502
New Mexico NM10$837−18%$392 – $2,550
Missouri MO40$828−19%$358 – $2,338
Colorado CO29$798−22%$417 – $4,424
Illinois IL59$733−28%$403 – $1,518
Arkansas AR15$662−35%$374 – $3,261
Minnesota MN53$631−38%$385 – $947
North Dakota ND14$630−39%$409 – $2,329
South Dakota SD16$627−39%$437 – $899
Wisconsin WI63$565−45%$396 – $1,329
Oregon OR39$548−47%$336 – $2,342
Iowa IA59$542−47%$305 – $1,017
Nebraska NE53$523−49%$364 – $1,017
Kentucky KY23$432−58%$230 – $1,389
Maine ME14$431−58%$272 – $869
Vermont VT11$428−58%$306 – $622
Michigan MI50$410−60%$149 – $1,637
Montana MT21$406−60%$225 – $557
Kansas KS55$395−61%$220 – $1,358
Tennessee TN21$321−69%$164 – $1,987
Oklahoma OK29$314−69%$275 – $2,317
New Hampshire NH11$215−79%$148 – $492
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $1,025.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,049$1,624$452 – $3,328
Children’s43$1,737$457 – $7,072
Critical access526$471$282 – $1,106
Ownership
For-profit129$1,822$571 – $4,145
Government356$544$311 – $1,688
Non-profit1,133$1,206$375 – $3,035
System affiliation
Part of a system1,241$1,268$396 – $3,060
Independent380$557$292 – $1,767

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,540
Median cash price$1,025
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

979 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,128 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,278; most fall between $385 and $2,696.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 979 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
$250$425$1,128$2,338$3,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($250 vs $3,936).

Of the 1,061 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 979 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 49 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,621 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,764 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,621
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,764

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 2.1-3.0cm.

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, 2.1–3 cm (CPT 11443) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11443-benign-skin-growth-removal-face-ears-lips-2-13-cm