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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, trunk/arm/leg, 1.1-2 cm

CPT 11602the 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 1.1 to 2 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $516 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,625 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $571. Most fall between $294 and $1,066 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,625
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 1,625 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
$200$328$516$932$1,935

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($200 vs $1,935).

How the prices are spread

$138 – $189: 73 hospitals$138$189 – $260: 119 hospitals$260 – $358: 194 hospitals$260$358 – $492: 309 hospitals$492 – $677: 256 hospitals$492$677 – $931: 193 hospitals$931 – $1,281: 156 hospitals$931$1,281 – $1,761: 68 hospitals$1,761 – $2,422: 81 hospitals$1,761$2,422 – $3,332: 22 hospitals$2,422median $516price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,471 of 1,625 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$138$18973
$189$260119
$260$358194
$358$492309
$492$677256
$677$931193
$931$1,281156
$1,281$1,76168
$1,761$2,42281
$2,422$3,33222

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$516
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.24×

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 $516.

Alaska: median $998 across 12 hospitalsAK$998Maine: median $408 across 16 hospitalsME$408Vermont: median $384 across 12 hospitalsVT$384New Hampshire: median $182 across 12 hospitalsNH$182Washington: median $523 across 36 hospitalsWA$523Idaho: median $536 across 16 hospitalsID$536Montana: median $333 across 22 hospitalsMT$333North Dakota: median $443 across 16 hospitalsND$443Minnesota: median $541 across 66 hospitalsMN$541Illinois: median $459 across 51 hospitalsIL$459Wisconsin: median $569 across 70 hospitalsWI$569Michigan: median $407 across 64 hospitalsMI$407New York: median $473 across 71 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $838 across 31 hospitalsMA$838Oregon: median $375 across 31 hospitalsOR$375Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $677 across 19 hospitalsSD$677Iowa: median $461 across 72 hospitalsIA$461Indiana: median $522 across 41 hospitalsIN$522Ohio: median $779 across 70 hospitalsOH$779Pennsylvania: median $469 across 72 hospitalsPA$469New Jersey: median $1,285 across 40 hospitalsNJ$1,285Connecticut: median $534 across 11 hospitalsCT$534Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $889 across 87 hospitalsCA$889Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $548 across 33 hospitalsCO$548Nebraska: median $494 across 51 hospitalsNE$494Missouri: median $436 across 44 hospitalsMO$436Kentucky: median $322 across 22 hospitalsKY$322West Virginia: median $439 across 30 hospitalsWV$439Virginia: median $856 across 33 hospitalsVA$856Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $650 across 11 hospitalsNM$650Kansas: median $320 across 61 hospitalsKS$320Arkansas: median $385 across 10 hospitalsAR$385Tennessee: median $288 across 21 hospitalsTN$288North Carolina: median $932 across 34 hospitalsNC$932South Carolina: median $955 across 30 hospitalsSC$955Oklahoma: median $294 across 26 hospitalsOK$294Louisiana: median $496 across 31 hospitalsLA$496Mississippi: median $297 across 33 hospitalsMS$297Alabama: median $606 across 18 hospitalsAL$606Georgia: median $988 across 30 hospitalsGA$988Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $589 across 62 hospitalsTX$589Florida: median $1,205 across 51 hospitalsFL$1,205
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $516. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ40$1,285+149%$471 – $4,627
Florida FL51$1,205+134%$456 – $2,298
Alaska AK12$998+93%$426 – $1,295
Georgia GA30$988+92%$469 – $4,862
South Carolina SC30$955+85%$416 – $955
North Carolina NC34$932+81%$295 – $1,360
California CA87$889+72%$414 – $2,358
Virginia VA33$856+66%$215 – $1,231
Massachusetts MA31$838+62%$547 – $1,121
Ohio OH70$779+51%$343 – $2,035
South Dakota SD19$677+31%$239 – $844
New Mexico NM11$650+26%$479 – $3,677
Alabama AL18$606+17%$299 – $4,727
Texas TX62$589+14%$311 – $1,327
Wisconsin WI70$569+10%$391 – $702
Colorado CO33$548+6%$349 – $1,779
Minnesota MN66$541+5%$311 – $759
Idaho ID16$536+4%$308 – $1,117
Connecticut CT11$534+3%$387 – $585
Washington WA36$523+1%$376 – $1,037
Indiana IN41$522+1%$281 – $912
Louisiana LA31$496−4%$227 – $1,243
Nebraska NE51$494−4%$316 – $570
New York NY71$473−8%$254 – $953
Pennsylvania PA72$469−9%$280 – $1,365
Iowa IA72$461−11%$278 – $607
Illinois IL51$459−11%$282 – $764
North Dakota ND16$443−14%$397 – $696
West Virginia WV30$439−15%$206 – $747
Missouri MO44$436−15%$266 – $1,869
Maine ME16$408−21%$308 – $513
Michigan MI64$407−21%$163 – $1,154
Arkansas AR10$385−25%$385 – $551
Vermont VT12$384−26%$181 – $534
Oregon OR31$375−27%$187 – $600
Montana MT22$333−35%$177 – $587
Kentucky KY22$322−38%$206 – $431
Kansas KS61$320−38%$200 – $473
Mississippi MS33$297−42%$234 – $516
Oklahoma OK26$294−43%$294 – $692
Tennessee TN21$288−44%$149 – $457
New Hampshire NH12$182−65%$143 – $429
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $516.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,048$598$327 – $1,360
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access562$432$246 – $685
Ownership
For-profit119$688$325 – $2,600
Government391$455$281 – $778
Non-profit1,113$542$297 – $1,117
System affiliation
Part of a system1,241$559$308 – $1,154
Independent384$426$251 – $757

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$795
Median cash price$516
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

990 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $590 and the average of the middle 60% is $633; most fall between $295 and $1,155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 990 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
$220$338$590$997$1,869

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($220 vs $1,869).

Of the 1,089 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 990 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,625 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 1,756 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,625
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,756

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 1.1-2.0 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, 1.1-2 cm (CPT 11602) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11602-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-trunk-arm-leg-1-1-2-cm