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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, scalp/hand/foot, up to 0.5 cm

CPT 11620the billing code this page is about

Cutting out a cancerous skin growth on the scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals where the growth plus the rim of normal skin taken around it measures 0.5 cm or less.

Hospitals typically charge $656 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,125 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $836. Most fall between $254 and $1,960 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,125
States
49
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 1,125 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
$173$295$656$1,800$3,314

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($173 vs $3,314).

How the prices are spread

$114 – $166: 54 hospitals$114$166 – $241: 104 hospitals$241 – $350: 138 hospitals$241$350 – $509: 158 hospitals$509 – $740: 95 hospitals$509$740 – $1,074: 95 hospitals$1,074 – $1,560: 90 hospitals$1,074$1,560 – $2,267: 148 hospitals$2,267 – $3,292: 73 hospitals$2,267$3,292 – $4,782: 58 hospitals$3,292median $656price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,013 of 1,125 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$114$16654
$166$241104
$241$350138
$350$509158
$509$74095
$740$1,07495
$1,074$1,56090
$1,560$2,267148
$2,267$3,29273
$3,292$4,78258

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$656
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.39×

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 $656.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $282 across 12 hospitalsME$282Vermont: median $403 across 10 hospitalsVT$403New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $410 across 32 hospitalsWA$410Idaho: median $1,224 across 15 hospitalsID$1,224Montana: median $298 across 19 hospitalsMT$298North Dakota: median $878 across 10 hospitalsND$878Minnesota: median $472 across 33 hospitalsMN$472Illinois: median $450 across 36 hospitalsIL$450Wisconsin: median $368 across 56 hospitalsWI$368Michigan: median $368 across 43 hospitalsMI$368New York: median $995 across 59 hospitalsNY$995Massachusetts: median $1,511 across 18 hospitalsMA$1,511Oregon: median $360 across 29 hospitalsOR$360Nevada: 6 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 $1,257 across 12 hospitalsSD$1,257Iowa: median $486 across 45 hospitalsIA$486Indiana: median $517 across 29 hospitalsIN$517Ohio: median $1,488 across 35 hospitalsOH$1,488Pennsylvania: median $1,214 across 58 hospitalsPA$1,214New Jersey: median $2,328 across 39 hospitalsNJ$2,328Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,809 across 63 hospitalsCA$1,809Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $749 across 20 hospitalsCO$749Nebraska: median $407 across 34 hospitalsNE$407Missouri: median $331 across 24 hospitalsMO$331Kentucky: median $361 across 15 hospitalsKY$361West Virginia: median $1,321 across 29 hospitalsWV$1,321Virginia: median $2,442 across 31 hospitalsVA$2,442Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $279 across 37 hospitalsKS$279Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $663 across 15 hospitalsTN$663North Carolina: median $636 across 25 hospitalsNC$636South Carolina: median $2,600 across 16 hospitalsSC$2,600Oklahoma: median $202 across 19 hospitalsOK$202Louisiana: median $726 across 19 hospitalsLA$726Mississippi: median $216 across 11 hospitalsMS$216Alabama: median $595 across 12 hospitalsAL$595Georgia: median $1,471 across 11 hospitalsGA$1,471Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $984 across 54 hospitalsTX$984Florida: median $3,949 across 32 hospitalsFL$3,949
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $656. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL32$3,949+502%$1,210 – $5,141
South Carolina SC16$2,600+297%$1,758 – $5,533
Virginia VA31$2,442+272%$1,321 – $2,686
New Jersey NJ39$2,328+255%$1,795 – $5,741
California CA63$1,809+176%$733 – $2,113
Massachusetts MA18$1,511+130%$818 – $2,101
Ohio OH35$1,488+127%$192 – $2,805
Georgia GA11$1,471+124%$699 – $3,700
West Virginia WV29$1,321+101%$325 – $2,109
South Dakota SD12$1,257+92%$344 – $2,172
Idaho ID15$1,224+87%$476 – $4,347
Pennsylvania PA58$1,214+85%$120 – $2,916
New York NY59$995+52%$198 – $2,062
Texas TX54$984+50%$404 – $1,378
North Dakota ND10$878+34%$508 – $2,774
Colorado CO20$749+14%$191 – $2,906
Louisiana LA19$726+11%$305 – $2,403
Tennessee TN15$663+1%$147 – $676
North Carolina NC25$636−3%$610 – $1,200
Alabama AL12$595−9%$224 – $1,660
Indiana IN29$517−21%$304 – $815
Iowa IA45$486−26%$199 – $560
Minnesota MN33$472−28%$276 – $754
Illinois IL36$450−31%$216 – $1,329
Washington WA32$410−38%$296 – $2,242
Nebraska NE34$407−38%$311 – $693
Vermont VT10$403−39%$106 – $484
Michigan MI43$368−44%$102 – $1,821
Wisconsin WI56$368−44%$344 – $1,032
Kentucky KY15$361−45%$185 – $686
Oregon OR29$360−45%$189 – $527
Missouri MO24$331−50%$251 – $1,700
Montana MT19$298−55%$179 – $467
Maine ME12$282−57%$213 – $477
Kansas KS37$279−58%$190 – $389
Mississippi MS11$216−67%$186 – $745
Oklahoma OK19$202−69%$202 – $3,001
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $656.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care728$1,097$311 – $2,442
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access385$368$211 – $754
Ownership
For-profit76$984$329 – $2,466
Government263$403$225 – $1,494
Non-profit785$733$271 – $2,062
System affiliation
Part of a system848$733$273 – $2,113
Independent277$410$217 – $1,533

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$779
Median cash price$656
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

673 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $733 and the average of the middle 60% is $873; most fall between $255 and $1,955.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 673 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
$183$305$733$1,809$3,325

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($183 vs $3,325).

Of the 744 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 673 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 44 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,125 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,230 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,125
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code1,230

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 Malignant Lesion S/N/H/F/G 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, scalp/hand/foot, up to 0.5 cm (CPT 11620) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11620-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-scalp-hand-foot-up-to-0-5-cm