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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, face or ear, 1.1-2 cm

CPT 11642the 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 1.1 to 2 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $664 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,447 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $775. Most fall between $349 and $1,705 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,447
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 1,447 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
$250$408$664$1,372$2,548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($250 vs $2,548).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $237: 68 hospitals$170$237 – $330: 120 hospitals$330 – $460: 151 hospitals$330$460 – $640: 259 hospitals$640 – $891: 234 hospitals$640$891 – $1,240: 133 hospitals$1,240 – $1,726: 132 hospitals$1,240$1,726 – $2,403: 108 hospitals$2,403 – $3,345: 64 hospitals$2,403$3,345 – $4,656: 34 hospitals$3,345median $664price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,303 of 1,447 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$23768
$237$330120
$330$460151
$460$640259
$640$891234
$891$1,240133
$1,240$1,726132
$1,726$2,403108
$2,403$3,34564
$3,345$4,65634

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$664
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 $664.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $448 across 16 hospitalsME$448Vermont: median $389 across 12 hospitalsVT$389New Hampshire: median $267 across 10 hospitalsNH$267Washington: median $638 across 35 hospitalsWA$638Idaho: median $667 across 16 hospitalsID$667Montana: median $393 across 21 hospitalsMT$393North Dakota: median $723 across 16 hospitalsND$723Minnesota: median $730 across 58 hospitalsMN$730Illinois: median $607 across 49 hospitalsIL$607Wisconsin: median $638 across 66 hospitalsWI$638Michigan: median $490 across 54 hospitalsMI$490New York: median $833 across 67 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $836 across 23 hospitalsMA$836Oregon: median $541 across 31 hospitalsOR$541Nevada: 7 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 $738 across 19 hospitalsSD$738Iowa: median $549 across 62 hospitalsIA$549Indiana: median $634 across 34 hospitalsIN$634Ohio: median $1,372 across 65 hospitalsOH$1,372Pennsylvania: median $825 across 66 hospitalsPA$825New Jersey: median $1,347 across 38 hospitalsNJ$1,347Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,834 across 55 hospitalsCA$1,834Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $788 across 26 hospitalsCO$788Nebraska: median $562 across 50 hospitalsNE$562Missouri: median $545 across 46 hospitalsMO$545Kentucky: median $643 across 27 hospitalsKY$643West Virginia: median $679 across 31 hospitalsWV$679Virginia: median $917 across 28 hospitalsVA$917Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $383 across 57 hospitalsKS$383Arkansas: median $486 across 11 hospitalsAR$486Tennessee: median $295 across 26 hospitalsTN$295North Carolina: median $1,741 across 27 hospitalsNC$1,741South Carolina: median $1,478 across 19 hospitalsSC$1,478Oklahoma: median $298 across 28 hospitalsOK$298Louisiana: median $642 across 23 hospitalsLA$642Mississippi: median $603 across 32 hospitalsMS$603Alabama: median $758 across 17 hospitalsAL$758Georgia: median $1,322 across 28 hospitalsGA$1,322Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,173 across 56 hospitalsTX$1,173Florida: median $1,554 across 37 hospitalsFL$1,554
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $664. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA55$1,834+176%$504 – $2,548
North Carolina NC27$1,741+162%$521 – $1,741
Florida FL37$1,554+134%$662 – $4,293
South Carolina SC19$1,478+123%$512 – $2,704
Ohio OH65$1,372+107%$439 – $2,820
New Jersey NJ38$1,347+103%$779 – $5,110
Georgia GA28$1,322+99%$627 – $1,940
Texas TX56$1,173+77%$496 – $2,055
Virginia VA28$917+38%$295 – $2,435
Massachusetts MA23$836+26%$706 – $1,798
New York NY67$833+25%$373 – $1,450
Pennsylvania PA66$825+24%$349 – $1,772
Colorado CO26$788+19%$413 – $1,891
Alabama AL17$758+14%$589 – $6,689
South Dakota SD19$738+11%$525 – $1,069
Minnesota MN58$730+10%$396 – $1,327
North Dakota ND16$723+9%$469 – $834
West Virginia WV31$679+2%$352 – $1,253
Idaho ID16$6670%$402 – $1,783
Kentucky KY27$643−3%$307 – $916
Louisiana LA23$642−3%$231 – $1,136
Wisconsin WI66$638−4%$481 – $1,040
Washington WA35$638−4%$470 – $1,166
Indiana IN34$634−5%$320 – $1,264
Illinois IL49$607−9%$324 – $1,288
Mississippi MS32$603−9%$421 – $1,111
Nebraska NE50$562−15%$365 – $648
Iowa IA62$549−17%$333 – $664
Missouri MO46$545−18%$353 – $1,816
Oregon OR31$541−19%$389 – $779
Michigan MI54$490−26%$155 – $1,082
Arkansas AR11$486−27%$445 – $1,555
Maine ME16$448−33%$329 – $631
Montana MT21$393−41%$264 – $677
Vermont VT12$389−41%$254 – $603
Kansas KS57$383−42%$200 – $605
Oklahoma OK28$298−55%$224 – $961
Tennessee TN26$295−56%$289 – $1,503
New Hampshire NH10$267−60%$147 – $432
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not 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 RI1not 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 $664.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care900$837$408 – $2,186
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access530$545$294 – $958
Ownership
For-profit102$1,022$490 – $4,878
Government345$577$300 – $1,166
Non-profit998$703$361 – $1,715
System affiliation
Part of a system1,104$707$373 – $1,798
Independent343$567$290 – $1,185

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$961
Median cash price$664
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

837 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $664 and the average of the middle 60% is $805; most fall between $349 and $1,713.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 837 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
$266$408$664$1,395$2,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($266 vs $2,210).

Of the 912 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 837 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 42 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,447 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,566 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,447
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
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 — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,566

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 July 20, 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 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, face or ear, 1.1-2 cm (CPT 11642) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11642-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-face-or-ear-1-1-2-cm