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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, scalp/hand/foot, 3.1-4 cm

CPT 11624the 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 3.1 to 4 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $1,110 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,246 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,294. Most fall between $490 and $2,686 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,246
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 1,246 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
$341$565$1,110$2,300$4,362

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($341 vs $4,362).

How the prices are spread

$246 – $336: 61 hospitals$246$336 – $459: 91 hospitals$459 – $627: 153 hospitals$459$627 – $856: 168 hospitals$856 – $1,170: 101 hospitals$856$1,170 – $1,598: 111 hospitals$1,598 – $2,183: 165 hospitals$1,598$2,183 – $2,983: 112 hospitals$2,983 – $4,076: 77 hospitals$2,983$4,076 – $5,569: 83 hospitals$4,076median $1,110price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,122 of 1,246 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$246$33661
$336$45991
$459$627153
$627$856168
$856$1,170101
$1,170$1,598111
$1,598$2,183165
$2,183$2,983112
$2,983$4,07677
$4,076$5,56983

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,110
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $1,110.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $484 across 15 hospitalsME$484Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $782 across 32 hospitalsWA$782Idaho: median $1,224 across 16 hospitalsID$1,224Montana: median $572 across 19 hospitalsMT$572North Dakota: median $882 across 14 hospitalsND$882Minnesota: median $890 across 42 hospitalsMN$890Illinois: median $832 across 41 hospitalsIL$832Wisconsin: median $814 across 55 hospitalsWI$814Michigan: median $807 across 51 hospitalsMI$807New York: median $1,028 across 57 hospitalsNY$1,028Massachusetts: median $2,395 across 22 hospitalsMA$2,395Oregon: median $615 across 30 hospitalsOR$615Nevada: 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 $1,459 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,459Iowa: median $691 across 55 hospitalsIA$691Indiana: median $892 across 32 hospitalsIN$892Ohio: median $1,800 across 47 hospitalsOH$1,800Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 60 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $3,100 across 37 hospitalsNJ$3,100Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,113 across 65 hospitalsCA$2,113Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,497 across 23 hospitalsCO$1,497Nebraska: median $740 across 42 hospitalsNE$740Missouri: median $593 across 30 hospitalsMO$593Kentucky: median $593 across 17 hospitalsKY$593West Virginia: median $1,533 across 28 hospitalsWV$1,533Virginia: median $2,686 across 27 hospitalsVA$2,686Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $514 across 47 hospitalsKS$514Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $803 across 17 hospitalsTN$803North Carolina: median $2,015 across 22 hospitalsNC$2,015South Carolina: median $4,091 across 11 hospitalsSC$4,091Oklahoma: median $390 across 20 hospitalsOK$390Louisiana: median $1,450 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,450Mississippi: median $596 across 16 hospitalsMS$596Alabama: median $1,660 across 15 hospitalsAL$1,660Georgia: median $2,300 across 26 hospitalsGA$2,300Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,360 across 46 hospitalsTX$2,360Florida: median $3,902 across 45 hospitalsFL$3,902
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,110. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$4,091+268%$3,384 – $5,230
Florida FL45$3,902+252%$1,496 – $4,687
New Jersey NJ37$3,100+179%$1,793 – $5,419
Virginia VA27$2,686+142%$818 – $4,998
Massachusetts MA22$2,395+116%$1,430 – $4,329
Texas TX46$2,360+113%$696 – $3,346
Georgia GA26$2,300+107%$1,615 – $5,810
California CA65$2,113+90%$937 – $4,362
North Carolina NC22$2,015+82%$1,146 – $2,015
Pennsylvania PA60$1,951+76%$632 – $3,549
Ohio OH47$1,800+62%$397 – $3,160
Alabama AL15$1,660+50%$572 – $3,413
West Virginia WV28$1,533+38%$807 – $1,899
Colorado CO23$1,497+35%$621 – $5,569
South Dakota SD15$1,459+31%$695 – $2,217
Louisiana LA21$1,450+31%$560 – $2,562
Idaho ID16$1,224+10%$735 – $4,347
New York NY57$1,028−7%$397 – $2,062
Indiana IN32$892−20%$385 – $1,391
Minnesota MN42$890−20%$536 – $1,697
North Dakota ND14$882−21%$505 – $1,664
Illinois IL41$832−25%$461 – $1,645
Wisconsin WI55$814−27%$599 – $1,228
Michigan MI51$807−27%$202 – $2,171
Tennessee TN17$803−28%$270 – $1,089
Washington WA32$782−30%$519 – $2,481
Nebraska NE42$740−33%$582 – $1,051
Iowa IA55$691−38%$385 – $990
Oregon OR30$615−45%$465 – $1,014
Mississippi MS16$596−46%$474 – $2,066
Kentucky KY17$593−47%$335 – $1,129
Missouri MO30$593−47%$337 – $1,870
Montana MT19$572−48%$346 – $819
Kansas KS47$514−54%$325 – $721
Maine ME15$484−56%$375 – $1,145
Oklahoma OK20$390−65%$390 – $2,020
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $1,110.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care810$1,660$591 – $3,413
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access423$692$408 – $1,400
Ownership
For-profit86$1,857$570 – $3,911
Government296$794$442 – $2,044
Non-profit863$1,201$501 – $2,774
System affiliation
Part of a system946$1,365$543 – $3,044
Independent300$760$415 – $1,911

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,561
Median cash price$1,110
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

731 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,121 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,358; most fall between $490 and $2,922.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 731 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
$356$588$1,121$2,518$4,362

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($356 vs $4,362).

Of the 800 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 731 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 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,246 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,350 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,246
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,350

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 3.1-4.0 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, 3.1-4 cm (CPT 11624) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11624-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-scalp-hand-foot-3-1-4-cm