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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, scalp/hand/foot, 1.1-2 cm

CPT 11622the 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 1.1 to 2 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $662 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,438 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $750. Most fall between $326 and $1,534 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,438
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 1,438 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
$218$372$662$1,321$2,548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($218 vs $2,548).

How the prices are spread

$152 – $211: 60 hospitals$152$211 – $292: 118 hospitals$292 – $405: 146 hospitals$292$405 – $561: 198 hospitals$561 – $777: 213 hospitals$561$777 – $1,077: 192 hospitals$1,077 – $1,492: 144 hospitals$1,077$1,492 – $2,068: 94 hospitals$2,068 – $2,865: 101 hospitals$2,068$2,865 – $3,971: 31 hospitals$2,865median $662price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,297 of 1,438 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$152$21160
$211$292118
$292$405146
$405$561198
$561$777213
$777$1,077192
$1,077$1,492144
$1,492$2,06894
$2,068$2,865101
$2,865$3,97131

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$662
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $662.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $347 across 14 hospitalsME$347Vermont: median $392 across 12 hospitalsVT$392New Hampshire: median $224 across 11 hospitalsNH$224Washington: median $505 across 33 hospitalsWA$505Idaho: median $770 across 17 hospitalsID$770Montana: median $380 across 22 hospitalsMT$380North Dakota: median $714 across 16 hospitalsND$714Minnesota: median $614 across 54 hospitalsMN$614Illinois: median $578 across 48 hospitalsIL$578Wisconsin: median $596 across 60 hospitalsWI$596Michigan: median $416 across 49 hospitalsMI$416New York: median $833 across 62 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $1,121 across 27 hospitalsMA$1,121Oregon: median $462 across 30 hospitalsOR$462Nevada: 8 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 $698 across 17 hospitalsSD$698Iowa: median $497 across 65 hospitalsIA$497Indiana: median $609 across 33 hospitalsIN$609Ohio: median $1,366 across 76 hospitalsOH$1,366Pennsylvania: median $825 across 66 hospitalsPA$825New Jersey: median $1,172 across 39 hospitalsNJ$1,172Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,274 across 70 hospitalsCA$1,274Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $693 across 24 hospitalsCO$693Nebraska: median $516 across 48 hospitalsNE$516Missouri: median $478 across 35 hospitalsMO$478Kentucky: median $481 across 22 hospitalsKY$481West Virginia: median $690 across 28 hospitalsWV$690Virginia: median $2,686 across 27 hospitalsVA$2,686Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $336 across 59 hospitalsKS$336Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $327 across 21 hospitalsTN$327North Carolina: median $963 across 30 hospitalsNC$963South Carolina: median $2,349 across 24 hospitalsSC$2,349Oklahoma: median $277 across 21 hospitalsOK$277Louisiana: median $726 across 26 hospitalsLA$726Mississippi: median $704 across 25 hospitalsMS$704Alabama: median $716 across 17 hospitalsAL$716Georgia: median $1,065 across 32 hospitalsGA$1,065Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $986 across 50 hospitalsTX$986Florida: median $1,505 across 47 hospitalsFL$1,505
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $662. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA27$2,686+305%$262 – $2,818
South Carolina SC24$2,349+255%$791 – $3,380
Florida FL47$1,505+127%$706 – $4,545
Ohio OH76$1,366+106%$454 – $2,186
California CA70$1,274+92%$532 – $2,548
New Jersey NJ39$1,172+77%$779 – $4,881
Massachusetts MA27$1,121+69%$341 – $1,699
Georgia GA32$1,065+61%$960 – $1,942
Texas TX50$986+49%$431 – $1,719
North Carolina NC30$963+45%$544 – $1,329
New York NY62$833+26%$286 – $1,308
Pennsylvania PA66$825+25%$292 – $1,733
Idaho ID17$770+16%$390 – $1,783
Louisiana LA26$726+10%$382 – $1,136
Alabama AL17$716+8%$369 – $7,016
North Dakota ND16$714+8%$463 – $762
Mississippi MS25$704+6%$305 – $1,009
South Dakota SD17$698+5%$363 – $729
Colorado CO24$693+5%$244 – $3,971
West Virginia WV28$690+4%$409 – $1,424
Minnesota MN54$614−7%$355 – $1,176
Indiana IN33$609−8%$291 – $971
Wisconsin WI60$596−10%$454 – $941
Illinois IL48$578−13%$320 – $1,279
Nebraska NE48$516−22%$340 – $622
Washington WA33$505−24%$399 – $970
Iowa IA65$497−25%$250 – $652
Kentucky KY22$481−27%$250 – $1,295
Missouri MO35$478−28%$322 – $1,028
Oregon OR30$462−30%$240 – $620
Michigan MI49$416−37%$144 – $974
Vermont VT12$392−41%$236 – $901
Montana MT22$380−43%$255 – $598
Maine ME14$347−48%$241 – $863
Kansas KS59$336−49%$184 – $506
Tennessee TN21$327−51%$214 – $885
Oklahoma OK21$277−58%$277 – $1,434
New Hampshire NH11$224−66%$152 – $429
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not 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 $662.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care908$863$392 – $2,186
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access511$467$250 – $813
Ownership
For-profit95$876$409 – $2,186
Government364$536$300 – $1,065
Non-profit975$704$336 – $1,635
System affiliation
Part of a system1,092$744$350 – $1,699
Independent346$506$278 – $1,007

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$921
Median cash price$662
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

825 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $726 and the average of the middle 60% is $847; most fall between $337 and $1,719.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 825 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
$238$382$726$1,423$2,548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($238 vs $2,548).

Of the 911 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 825 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,438 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,560 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,438
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,560

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 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, scalp/hand/foot, 1.1-2 cm (CPT 11622) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11622-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-scalp-hand-foot-1-1-2-cm