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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, trunk/arm/leg, up to 0.5 cm

CPT 11600the billing code this page is about

Cutting out a cancerous skin growth on the trunk, arm, or leg where the growth plus the rim of normal skin taken around it measures 0.5 cm or less.

Hospitals typically charge $528 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,276 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $601. Most fall between $245 and $1,330 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,276
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 1,276 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
$172$282$528$1,055$1,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($172 vs $1,998).

How the prices are spread

$111 – $156: 51 hospitals$111$156 – $220: 101 hospitals$220 – $311: 155 hospitals$220$311 – $438: 178 hospitals$438 – $618: 167 hospitals$438$618 – $872: 167 hospitals$872 – $1,231: 122 hospitals$872$1,231 – $1,736: 95 hospitals$1,736 – $2,450: 74 hospitals$1,736$2,450 – $3,457: 42 hospitals$2,450median $528price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,152 of 1,276 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$111$15651
$156$220101
$220$311155
$311$438178
$438$618167
$618$872167
$872$1,231122
$1,231$1,73695
$1,736$2,45074
$2,450$3,45742

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$528
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $528.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $326 across 20 hospitalsME$326Vermont: median $286 across 12 hospitalsVT$286New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $441 across 30 hospitalsWA$441Idaho: median $576 across 15 hospitalsID$576Montana: median $267 across 19 hospitalsMT$267North Dakota: median $519 across 13 hospitalsND$519Minnesota: median $505 across 40 hospitalsMN$505Illinois: median $381 across 39 hospitalsIL$381Wisconsin: median $424 across 63 hospitalsWI$424Michigan: median $235 across 45 hospitalsMI$235New York: median $723 across 56 hospitalsNY$723Massachusetts: median $791 across 24 hospitalsMA$791Oregon: median $359 across 29 hospitalsOR$359Nevada: 5 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 $550 across 17 hospitalsSD$550Iowa: median $409 across 56 hospitalsIA$409Indiana: median $436 across 32 hospitalsIN$436Ohio: median $1,372 across 61 hospitalsOH$1,372Pennsylvania: median $837 across 69 hospitalsPA$837New Jersey: median $1,007 across 39 hospitalsNJ$1,007Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,966 across 59 hospitalsCA$1,966Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $421 across 21 hospitalsCO$421Nebraska: median $401 across 38 hospitalsNE$401Missouri: median $345 across 36 hospitalsMO$345Kentucky: median $259 across 17 hospitalsKY$259West Virginia: median $792 across 28 hospitalsWV$792Virginia: median $1,132 across 26 hospitalsVA$1,132Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $261 across 50 hospitalsKS$261Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $295 across 18 hospitalsTN$295North Carolina: median $597 across 27 hospitalsNC$597South Carolina: median $854 across 12 hospitalsSC$854Oklahoma: median $201 across 26 hospitalsOK$201Louisiana: median $585 across 27 hospitalsLA$585Mississippi: median $240 across 16 hospitalsMS$240Alabama: median $542 across 11 hospitalsAL$542Georgia: median $633 across 24 hospitalsGA$633Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,219 across 41 hospitalsTX$1,219Florida: median $1,554 across 33 hospitalsFL$1,554
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $528. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA59$1,966+272%$495 – $2,578
Florida FL33$1,554+194%$662 – $2,370
Ohio OH61$1,372+160%$275 – $1,408
Texas TX41$1,219+131%$255 – $1,675
Virginia VA26$1,132+114%$295 – $1,196
New Jersey NJ39$1,007+91%$816 – $5,110
South Carolina SC12$854+62%$768 – $3,457
Pennsylvania PA69$837+58%$311 – $2,035
West Virginia WV28$792+50%$213 – $1,542
Massachusetts MA24$791+50%$416 – $1,812
New York NY56$723+37%$210 – $954
Georgia GA24$633+20%$402 – $1,944
North Carolina NC27$597+13%$521 – $984
Louisiana LA27$585+11%$307 – $1,112
Idaho ID15$576+9%$466 – $1,783
South Dakota SD17$550+4%$252 – $666
Alabama AL11$542+3%$176 – $688
North Dakota ND13$519−2%$140 – $723
Minnesota MN40$505−4%$281 – $780
Washington WA30$441−17%$286 – $1,037
Indiana IN32$436−18%$237 – $679
Wisconsin WI63$424−20%$341 – $780
Colorado CO21$421−20%$230 – $2,882
Iowa IA56$409−23%$233 – $522
Nebraska NE38$401−24%$301 – $480
Illinois IL39$381−28%$224 – $704
Oregon OR29$359−32%$188 – $815
Missouri MO36$345−35%$256 – $1,762
Maine ME20$326−38%$191 – $571
Tennessee TN18$295−44%$144 – $1,347
Vermont VT12$286−46%$268 – $527
Montana MT19$267−50%$178 – $562
Kansas KS50$261−51%$179 – $399
Kentucky KY17$259−51%$185 – $662
Mississippi MS16$240−55%$202 – $700
Michigan MI45$235−56%$101 – $702
Oklahoma OK26$201−62%$180 – $568
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $528.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care816$781$292 – $1,675
Children’s23$1,408$397 – $3,475
Critical access436$345$213 – $571
Ownership
For-profit84$794$324 – $2,043
Government307$408$225 – $833
Non-profit884$570$259 – $1,398
System affiliation
Part of a system967$592$268 – $1,408
Independent309$391$215 – $886

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$695
Median cash price$528
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

752 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $571 and the average of the middle 60% is $670; most fall between $254 and $1,408.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 752 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
$178$290$571$1,298$1,966

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($178 vs $1,966).

Of the 830 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 752 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 50 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,276 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,390 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,276
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,390

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 Mal Lesion Trunk/Arm/Leg 0.5 Cm/<.

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, “Cancerous skin lesion removal, trunk/arm/leg, up to 0.5 cm (CPT 11600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11600-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-trunk-arm-leg-up-to-0-5-cm