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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, scalp/hand/foot, 0.6-1 cm

CPT 11621the 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 0.6 to 1 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $594 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,294 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $690. Most fall between $299 and $1,501 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,294
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 1,294 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
$203$344$594$1,248$2,699

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $2,699).

How the prices are spread

$131 – $185: 38 hospitals$131$185 – $260: 112 hospitals$260 – $366: 141 hospitals$260$366 – $514: 185 hospitals$514 – $723: 203 hospitals$514$723 – $1,018: 177 hospitals$1,018 – $1,432: 98 hospitals$1,018$1,432 – $2,014: 92 hospitals$2,014 – $2,833: 66 hospitals$2,014$2,833 – $3,986: 54 hospitals$2,833median $594price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,166 of 1,294 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$131$18538
$185$260112
$260$366141
$366$514185
$514$723203
$723$1,018177
$1,018$1,43298
$1,432$2,01492
$2,014$2,83366
$2,833$3,98654

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$594
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.82×

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 $594.

Alaska: median $1,080 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,080Maine: median $378 across 15 hospitalsME$378Vermont: median $466 across 11 hospitalsVT$466New Hampshire: median $131 across 10 hospitalsNH$131Washington: median $648 across 40 hospitalsWA$648Idaho: median $576 across 14 hospitalsID$576Montana: median $349 across 19 hospitalsMT$349North Dakota: median $598 across 15 hospitalsND$598Minnesota: median $594 across 47 hospitalsMN$594Illinois: median $594 across 50 hospitalsIL$594Wisconsin: median $543 across 61 hospitalsWI$543Michigan: median $551 across 54 hospitalsMI$551New York: median $698 across 56 hospitalsNY$698Massachusetts: median $1,231 across 19 hospitalsMA$1,231Oregon: median $454 across 35 hospitalsOR$454Nevada: 6 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 $635 across 12 hospitalsSD$635Iowa: median $452 across 58 hospitalsIA$452Indiana: median $555 across 31 hospitalsIN$555Ohio: median $863 across 46 hospitalsOH$863Pennsylvania: median $825 across 57 hospitalsPA$825New Jersey: median $2,957 across 38 hospitalsNJ$2,957Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,444 across 73 hospitalsCA$1,444Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $693 across 19 hospitalsCO$693Nebraska: median $462 across 39 hospitalsNE$462Missouri: median $436 across 37 hospitalsMO$436Kentucky: median $337 across 25 hospitalsKY$337West Virginia: median $814 across 28 hospitalsWV$814Virginia: median $2,515 across 24 hospitalsVA$2,515Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $326 across 45 hospitalsKS$326Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $199 across 17 hospitalsTN$199North Carolina: median $869 across 26 hospitalsNC$869South Carolina: median $2,701 across 23 hospitalsSC$2,701Oklahoma: median $244 across 18 hospitalsOK$244Louisiana: median $377 across 22 hospitalsLA$377Mississippi: median $282 across 16 hospitalsMS$282Alabama: median $642 across 18 hospitalsAL$642Georgia: median $1,065 across 25 hospitalsGA$1,065Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $914 across 43 hospitalsTX$914Florida: median $1,715 across 39 hospitalsFL$1,715
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $594. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ38$2,957+398%$821 – $5,355
South Carolina SC23$2,701+355%$630 – $2,984
Virginia VA24$2,515+324%$243 – $2,686
Florida FL39$1,715+189%$662 – $4,793
California CA73$1,444+143%$473 – $3,214
Massachusetts MA19$1,231+107%$794 – $2,441
Alaska AK10$1,080+82%$711 – $1,313
Georgia GA25$1,065+79%$930 – $4,862
Texas TX43$914+54%$334 – $1,501
North Carolina NC26$869+46%$521 – $1,068
Ohio OH46$863+45%$290 – $1,372
Pennsylvania PA57$825+39%$204 – $1,515
West Virginia WV28$814+37%$304 – $1,398
New York NY56$698+18%$262 – $1,338
Colorado CO19$693+17%$214 – $3,501
Washington WA40$648+9%$411 – $1,499
Alabama AL18$642+8%$225 – $7,016
South Dakota SD12$635+7%$488 – $758
North Dakota ND15$598+1%$174 – $723
Minnesota MN47$5940%$336 – $942
Illinois IL50$5940%$302 – $1,919
Idaho ID14$576−3%$499 – $1,783
Indiana IN31$555−7%$273 – $849
Michigan MI54$551−7%$126 – $960
Wisconsin WI61$543−9%$408 – $779
Vermont VT11$466−21%$317 – $553
Nebraska NE39$462−22%$341 – $535
Oregon OR35$454−23%$317 – $1,526
Iowa IA58$452−24%$271 – $565
Missouri MO37$436−27%$273 – $1,816
Maine ME15$378−36%$172 – $558
Louisiana LA22$377−36%$228 – $585
Montana MT19$349−41%$222 – $611
Kentucky KY25$337−43%$221 – $763
Kansas KS45$326−45%$214 – $425
Mississippi MS16$282−53%$257 – $797
Oklahoma OK18$244−59%$244 – $1,244
Tennessee TN17$199−67%$177 – $412
New Hampshire NH10$131−78%$121 – $359
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not 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
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $594.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care826$833$357 – $2,110
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access453$423$252 – $674
Ownership
For-profit83$854$403 – $2,698
Government304$463$261 – $869
Non-profit906$635$316 – $1,696
System affiliation
Part of a system991$662$328 – $1,715
Independent303$460$247 – $930

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$817
Median cash price$594
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

760 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $608 and the average of the middle 60% is $763; most fall between $302 and $1,700.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 760 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
$216$352$608$1,423$2,699

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($216 vs $2,699).

Of the 835 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 760 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,294 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,404 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,294
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
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 — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code1,404

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 0.6-1.0 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, scalp/hand/foot, 0.6-1 cm (CPT 11621) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11621-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-scalp-hand-foot-0-6-1-cm