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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, trunk/arm/leg, 2.1-3 cm

CPT 11603the 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 2.1 to 3 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $760 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,627 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $812. Most fall between $366 and $1,685 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,627
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 1,627 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
$245$418$760$1,372$2,947

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $2,947).

How the prices are spread

$164 – $229: 69 hospitals$164$229 – $318: 111 hospitals$318 – $444: 190 hospitals$318$444 – $618: 229 hospitals$618 – $861: 256 hospitals$618$861 – $1,200: 231 hospitals$1,200 – $1,671: 141 hospitals$1,200$1,671 – $2,328: 128 hospitals$2,328 – $3,244: 41 hospitals$2,328$3,244 – $4,519: 80 hospitals$3,244median $760price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,476 of 1,627 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$164$22969
$229$318111
$318$444190
$444$618229
$618$861256
$861$1,200231
$1,200$1,671141
$1,671$2,328128
$2,328$3,24441
$3,244$4,51980

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$760
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $760.

Alaska: median $1,302 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,302Maine: median $424 across 16 hospitalsME$424Vermont: median $390 across 12 hospitalsVT$390New Hampshire: median $367 across 13 hospitalsNH$367Washington: median $672 across 41 hospitalsWA$672Idaho: median $616 across 17 hospitalsID$616Montana: median $428 across 22 hospitalsMT$428North Dakota: median $723 across 15 hospitalsND$723Minnesota: median $690 across 56 hospitalsMN$690Illinois: median $664 across 61 hospitalsIL$664Wisconsin: median $678 across 68 hospitalsWI$678Michigan: median $521 across 57 hospitalsMI$521New York: median $833 across 69 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $925 across 40 hospitalsMA$925Oregon: median $510 across 35 hospitalsOR$510Nevada: 8 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 $766 across 17 hospitalsSD$766Iowa: median $530 across 68 hospitalsIA$530Indiana: median $561 across 38 hospitalsIN$561Ohio: median $1,372 across 78 hospitalsOH$1,372Pennsylvania: median $990 across 81 hospitalsPA$990New Jersey: median $1,817 across 43 hospitalsNJ$1,817Connecticut: median $1,019 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,019Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,944 across 67 hospitalsCA$1,944Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $898 across 32 hospitalsCO$898Nebraska: median $582 across 49 hospitalsNE$582Missouri: median $544 across 44 hospitalsMO$544Kentucky: median $390 across 22 hospitalsKY$390West Virginia: median $711 across 29 hospitalsWV$711Virginia: median $1,132 across 32 hospitalsVA$1,132Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $813 across 10 hospitalsAZ$813New Mexico: median $861 across 10 hospitalsNM$861Kansas: median $402 across 65 hospitalsKS$402Arkansas: median $627 across 13 hospitalsAR$627Tennessee: median $220 across 27 hospitalsTN$220North Carolina: median $924 across 35 hospitalsNC$924South Carolina: median $1,072 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,072Oklahoma: median $336 across 29 hospitalsOK$336Louisiana: median $822 across 29 hospitalsLA$822Mississippi: median $532 across 30 hospitalsMS$532Alabama: median $792 across 20 hospitalsAL$792Georgia: median $1,546 across 36 hospitalsGA$1,546Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,346 across 60 hospitalsTX$1,346Florida: median $1,700 across 49 hospitalsFL$1,700
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $760. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA67$1,944+156%$496 – $3,522
New Jersey NJ43$1,817+139%$779 – $4,881
Florida FL49$1,700+124%$662 – $3,548
Georgia GA36$1,546+104%$570 – $4,862
Ohio OH78$1,372+81%$644 – $2,327
Texas TX60$1,346+77%$575 – $2,110
Alaska AK12$1,302+71%$684 – $2,338
Virginia VA32$1,132+49%$232 – $2,515
South Carolina SC26$1,072+41%$419 – $3,945
Connecticut CT10$1,019+34%$638 – $1,161
Pennsylvania PA81$990+30%$480 – $2,063
Massachusetts MA40$925+22%$651 – $2,176
North Carolina NC35$924+22%$521 – $1,068
Colorado CO32$898+18%$456 – $2,387
New Mexico NM10$861+13%$371 – $1,771
New York NY69$833+10%$310 – $1,949
Louisiana LA29$822+8%$574 – $1,274
Arizona AZ10$813+7%$307 – $6,047
Alabama AL20$792+4%$593 – $5,105
South Dakota SD17$766+1%$666 – $882
North Dakota ND15$723−5%$373 – $804
West Virginia WV29$711−6%$425 – $1,398
Minnesota MN56$690−9%$382 – $1,233
Wisconsin WI68$678−11%$502 – $1,194
Washington WA41$672−12%$506 – $1,371
Illinois IL61$664−13%$384 – $1,411
Arkansas AR13$627−17%$451 – $1,229
Idaho ID17$616−19%$356 – $1,783
Nebraska NE49$582−23%$401 – $1,004
Indiana IN38$561−26%$322 – $1,172
Missouri MO44$544−28%$311 – $2,020
Mississippi MS30$532−30%$318 – $926
Iowa IA68$530−30%$346 – $693
Michigan MI57$521−31%$216 – $1,154
Oregon OR35$510−33%$265 – $728
Montana MT22$428−44%$292 – $647
Maine ME16$424−44%$266 – $612
Kansas KS65$402−47%$221 – $525
Kentucky KY22$390−49%$259 – $682
Vermont VT12$390−49%$266 – $606
New Hampshire NH13$367−52%$177 – $458
Oklahoma OK29$336−56%$233 – $1,434
Tennessee TN27$220−71%$164 – $885
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $760.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,051$924$419 – $2,120
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access561$525$306 – $950
Ownership
For-profit122$1,163$451 – $4,862
Government385$575$343 – $1,139
Non-profit1,118$805$373 – $1,731
System affiliation
Part of a system1,244$829$390 – $1,867
Independent383$564$323 – $1,055

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,089
Median cash price$760
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

952 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $837 and the average of the middle 60% is $884; most fall between $373 and $1,783.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 952 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
$259$419$837$1,522$2,515

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($259 vs $2,515).

Of the 1,044 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 952 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,627 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 1,760 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,627
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
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 — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,760

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 2.1-3.0 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, 2.1-3 cm (CPT 11603) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11603-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-trunk-arm-leg-2-1-3-cm