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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Armpit sweat gland removal with complex repair

CPT 11451the billing code this page is about

Removal of skin and underlying sweat gland tissue in the armpit for chronic sweat gland inflammation, closed with a complex repair such as a flap or layered reconstruction.

Hospitals typically charge $1,681 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 550 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,187. Most fall between $629 and $4,973 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
550
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 550 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
$514$743$1,681$4,586$8,462

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($514 vs $8,462).

How the prices are spread

$332 – $470: 19 hospitals$332$470 – $665: 70 hospitals$665 – $942: 57 hospitals$665$942 – $1,333: 74 hospitals$1,333 – $1,887: 30 hospitals$1,333$1,887 – $2,671: 40 hospitals$2,671 – $3,781: 72 hospitals$2,671$3,781 – $5,353: 59 hospitals$5,353 – $7,577: 34 hospitals$5,353$7,577 – $10,726: 41 hospitals$7,577median $1,681price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (496 of 550 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$332$47019
$470$66570
$665$94257
$942$1,33374
$1,333$1,88730
$1,887$2,67140
$2,671$3,78172
$3,781$5,35359
$5,353$7,57734
$7,577$10,72641

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$1,681
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $1,681.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $959 across 10 hospitalsWA$959Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $961 across 21 hospitalsIL$961Wisconsin: median $1,918 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,918Michigan: median $608 across 32 hospitalsMI$608New York: median $3,387 across 38 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $959 across 10 hospitalsOR$959Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,238 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,238Indiana: median $579 across 11 hospitalsIN$579Ohio: median $1,219 across 17 hospitalsOH$1,219Pennsylvania: median $1,451 across 28 hospitalsPA$1,451New Jersey: median $3,819 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,770 across 39 hospitalsCA$8,770Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $3,386 across 13 hospitalsCO$3,386Nebraska: median $934 across 10 hospitalsNE$934Missouri: median $810 across 15 hospitalsMO$810Kentucky: median $579 across 10 hospitalsKY$579West Virginia: median $3,339 across 10 hospitalsWV$3,339Virginia: median $1,101 across 10 hospitalsVA$1,101Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $13,601 across 11 hospitalsSC$13,601Oklahoma: median $544 across 15 hospitalsOK$544Louisiana: median $3,103 across 13 hospitalsLA$3,103Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,592 across 11 hospitalsAL$2,592Georgia: median $2,840 across 13 hospitalsGA$2,840Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,586 across 27 hospitalsTX$4,586Florida: median $2,087 across 16 hospitalsFL$2,087
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,681. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$13,601+709%$4,649 – $15,859
California CA39$8,770+422%$1,577 – $8,770
Texas TX27$4,586+173%$1,541 – $4,586
New Jersey NJ31$3,819+127%$3,171 – $5,339
New York NY38$3,387+101%$711 – $3,626
Colorado CO13$3,386+101%$841 – $7,621
West Virginia WV10$3,339+99%$898 – $4,941
Louisiana LA13$3,103+85%$770 – $5,687
Georgia GA13$2,840+69%$1,414 – $10,479
Alabama AL11$2,592+54%$1,375 – $3,000
Florida FL16$2,087+24%$1,152 – $5,046
Wisconsin WI27$1,918+14%$1,146 – $3,028
Pennsylvania PA28$1,451−14%$216 – $4,839
Iowa IA18$1,238−26%$1,085 – $1,238
Ohio OH17$1,219−27%$618 – $11,040
Virginia VA10$1,101−35%$224 – $1,321
Illinois IL21$961−43%$579 – $1,532
Oregon OR10$959−43%$633 – $978
Washington WA10$959−43%$591 – $1,100
Nebraska NE10$934−44%$769 – $1,409
Missouri MO15$810−52%$666 – $3,147
Michigan MI32$608−64%$563 – $1,918
Indiana IN11$579−66%$579 – $981
Kentucky KY10$579−66%$514 – $1,155
Oklahoma OK15$544−68%$544 – $1,199
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,681.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care437$2,580$667 – $5,741
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access103$1,069$579 – $1,918
Ownership
For-profit50$2,969$656 – $6,947
Government95$1,414$740 – $4,360
Non-profit404$1,658$592 – $4,926
System affiliation
Part of a system416$2,087$679 – $5,419
Independent134$1,100$591 – $3,398

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,708
Median cash price$1,681
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

322 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,414 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,964; most fall between $591 and $5,273.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 322 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
$495$679$1,414$4,586$8,770

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($495 vs $8,770).

Of the 356 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 322 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

550 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 614 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted550
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code614

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 September 4, 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 Excision Hidradenitis Axillary Complex Repair.

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, “Armpit sweat gland removal with complex repair (CPT 11451) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11451-armpit-sweat-gland-removal-with-complex-repair