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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, face or ear, 0.6-1 cm

CPT 11641the billing code this page is about

Cutting out a cancerous skin growth on the face, ear, eyelid, nose, or lip where the growth plus the rim of normal skin taken around it measures 0.6 to 1 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $611 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,349 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $689. Most fall between $310 and $1,372 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,349
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 1,349 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
$208$356$611$1,173$2,251

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($208 vs $2,251).

How the prices are spread

$131 – $184: 56 hospitals$131$184 – $259: 98 hospitals$259 – $363: 136 hospitals$259$363 – $510: 192 hospitals$510 – $716: 223 hospitals$510$716 – $1,005: 193 hospitals$1,005 – $1,411: 142 hospitals$1,005$1,411 – $1,981: 87 hospitals$1,981 – $2,780: 61 hospitals$1,981$2,780 – $3,902: 40 hospitals$2,780median $611price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,228 of 1,349 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$131$18456
$184$25998
$259$363136
$363$510192
$510$716223
$716$1,005193
$1,005$1,411142
$1,411$1,98187
$1,981$2,78061
$2,780$3,90240

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$611
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $611.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $392 across 14 hospitalsME$392Vermont: median $369 across 12 hospitalsVT$369New Hampshire: median $230 across 12 hospitalsNH$230Washington: median $560 across 32 hospitalsWA$560Idaho: median $860 across 16 hospitalsID$860Montana: median $428 across 19 hospitalsMT$428North Dakota: median $520 across 15 hospitalsND$520Minnesota: median $605 across 56 hospitalsMN$605Illinois: median $570 across 45 hospitalsIL$570Wisconsin: median $546 across 61 hospitalsWI$546Michigan: median $371 across 53 hospitalsMI$371New York: median $833 across 57 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $794 across 27 hospitalsMA$794Oregon: median $432 across 28 hospitalsOR$432Nevada: 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 $655 across 18 hospitalsSD$655Iowa: median $514 across 64 hospitalsIA$514Indiana: median $571 across 31 hospitalsIN$571Ohio: median $1,372 across 56 hospitalsOH$1,372Pennsylvania: median $837 across 60 hospitalsPA$837New Jersey: median $1,347 across 36 hospitalsNJ$1,347Connecticut: 7 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 $1,627 across 52 hospitalsCA$1,627Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $672 across 19 hospitalsCO$672Nebraska: median $482 across 50 hospitalsNE$482Missouri: median $537 across 45 hospitalsMO$537Kentucky: median $500 across 22 hospitalsKY$500West Virginia: median $678 across 29 hospitalsWV$678Virginia: median $2,210 across 28 hospitalsVA$2,210Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 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 $315 across 57 hospitalsKS$315Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $264 across 19 hospitalsTN$264North Carolina: median $1,409 across 27 hospitalsNC$1,409South Carolina: median $970 across 30 hospitalsSC$970Oklahoma: median $255 across 23 hospitalsOK$255Louisiana: median $726 across 25 hospitalsLA$726Mississippi: median $415 across 21 hospitalsMS$415Alabama: median $665 across 16 hospitalsAL$665Georgia: median $1,051 across 18 hospitalsGA$1,051Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,050 across 48 hospitalsTX$1,050Florida: median $1,554 across 36 hospitalsFL$1,554
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $611. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA28$2,210+261%$264 – $2,380
California CA52$1,627+166%$459 – $3,214
Florida FL36$1,554+154%$662 – $3,902
North Carolina NC27$1,409+130%$473 – $1,409
Ohio OH56$1,372+124%$364 – $2,012
New Jersey NJ36$1,347+120%$829 – $4,881
Georgia GA18$1,051+72%$192 – $4,609
Texas TX48$1,050+72%$531 – $1,445
South Carolina SC30$970+59%$872 – $1,576
Idaho ID16$860+41%$518 – $1,783
Pennsylvania PA60$837+37%$170 – $1,517
New York NY57$833+36%$330 – $1,491
Massachusetts MA27$794+30%$527 – $1,683
Louisiana LA25$726+19%$203 – $1,068
West Virginia WV29$678+11%$365 – $1,118
Colorado CO19$672+10%$223 – $1,884
Alabama AL16$665+9%$343 – $2,996
South Dakota SD18$655+7%$380 – $872
Minnesota MN56$605−1%$348 – $1,182
Indiana IN31$571−7%$292 – $908
Illinois IL45$570−7%$275 – $924
Washington WA32$560−8%$428 – $1,037
Wisconsin WI61$546−11%$422 – $725
Missouri MO45$537−12%$300 – $1,756
North Dakota ND15$520−15%$229 – $723
Iowa IA64$514−16%$317 – $677
Kentucky KY22$500−18%$300 – $854
Nebraska NE50$482−21%$342 – $572
Oregon OR28$432−29%$226 – $683
Montana MT19$428−30%$225 – $593
Mississippi MS21$415−32%$279 – $864
Maine ME14$392−36%$250 – $672
Michigan MI53$371−39%$131 – $940
Vermont VT12$369−40%$216 – $626
Kansas KS57$315−48%$155 – $492
Tennessee TN19$264−57%$184 – $885
Oklahoma OK23$255−58%$255 – $1,327
New Hampshire NH12$230−62%$125 – $429
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $611.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care829$833$362 – $1,783
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access502$474$260 – $778
Ownership
For-profit83$935$364 – $2,043
Government331$494$284 – $912
Non-profit933$655$317 – $1,443
System affiliation
Part of a system1,017$672$335 – $1,445
Independent332$482$257 – $961

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$850
Median cash price$611
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

747 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $604 and the average of the middle 60% is $723; most fall between $320 and $1,445.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 747 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
$227$356$604$1,298$2,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($227 vs $2,210).

Of the 824 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 747 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 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,349 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,464 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,349
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 — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code1,464

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 F/E/E/N/L 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, face or ear, 0.6-1 cm (CPT 11641) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11641-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-face-or-ear-0-6-1-cm