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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, face or ear, 2.1-3 cm

CPT 11643the 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 2.1 to 3 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $971 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,351 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,164. Most fall between $459 and $2,435 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,351
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 1,351 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
$314$547$971$2,102$3,949

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($314 vs $3,949).

How the prices are spread

$213 – $297: 55 hospitals$213$297 – $415: 118 hospitals$415 – $579: 145 hospitals$415$579 – $808: 219 hospitals$808 – $1,129: 130 hospitals$808$1,129 – $1,576: 119 hospitals$1,576 – $2,200: 188 hospitals$1,576$2,200 – $3,071: 106 hospitals$3,071 – $4,287: 77 hospitals$3,071$4,287 – $5,985: 60 hospitals$4,287median $971price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,217 of 1,351 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$213$29755
$297$415118
$415$579145
$579$808219
$808$1,129130
$1,129$1,576119
$1,576$2,200188
$2,200$3,071106
$3,071$4,28777
$4,287$5,98560

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$971
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

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 $971.

Alaska: median $1,879 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,879Maine: median $451 across 14 hospitalsME$451Vermont: median $608 across 11 hospitalsVT$608New Hampshire: median $378 across 10 hospitalsNH$378Washington: median $770 across 36 hospitalsWA$770Idaho: median $1,092 across 17 hospitalsID$1,092Montana: median $491 across 20 hospitalsMT$491North Dakota: median $894 across 15 hospitalsND$894Minnesota: median $723 across 46 hospitalsMN$723Illinois: median $744 across 52 hospitalsIL$744Wisconsin: median $764 across 60 hospitalsWI$764Michigan: median $614 across 47 hospitalsMI$614New York: median $962 across 64 hospitalsNY$962Massachusetts: median $1,669 across 22 hospitalsMA$1,669Oregon: median $637 across 31 hospitalsOR$637Nevada: 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 $865 across 16 hospitalsSD$865Iowa: median $657 across 62 hospitalsIA$657Indiana: median $788 across 33 hospitalsIN$788Ohio: median $1,949 across 71 hospitalsOH$1,949Pennsylvania: median $1,985 across 56 hospitalsPA$1,985New Jersey: median $2,328 across 35 hospitalsNJ$2,328Connecticut: 6 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 $2,264 across 51 hospitalsCA$2,264Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,139 across 23 hospitalsCO$1,139Nebraska: median $686 across 48 hospitalsNE$686Missouri: median $660 across 33 hospitalsMO$660Kentucky: median $662 across 20 hospitalsKY$662West Virginia: median $1,582 across 29 hospitalsWV$1,582Virginia: median $2,210 across 26 hospitalsVA$2,210Maryland: 3 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: median $1,211 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,211Kansas: median $480 across 55 hospitalsKS$480Arkansas: median $967 across 11 hospitalsAR$967Tennessee: median $412 across 12 hospitalsTN$412North Carolina: median $1,935 across 28 hospitalsNC$1,935South Carolina: median $1,670 across 19 hospitalsSC$1,670Oklahoma: median $380 across 28 hospitalsOK$380Louisiana: median $873 across 24 hospitalsLA$873Mississippi: median $958 across 26 hospitalsMS$958Alabama: median $1,474 across 16 hospitalsAL$1,474Georgia: median $1,104 across 33 hospitalsGA$1,104Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,459 across 49 hospitalsTX$2,459Florida: median $3,691 across 35 hospitalsFL$3,691
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $971. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL35$3,691+280%$1,496 – $3,949
Texas TX49$2,459+153%$650 – $2,557
New Jersey NJ35$2,328+140%$1,771 – $5,339
California CA51$2,264+133%$656 – $5,320
Virginia VA26$2,210+128%$1,320 – $3,334
Pennsylvania PA56$1,985+104%$279 – $5,985
Ohio OH71$1,949+101%$530 – $3,280
North Carolina NC28$1,935+99%$1,091 – $2,101
Alaska AK10$1,879+94%$1,090 – $2,135
South Carolina SC19$1,670+72%$569 – $3,945
Massachusetts MA22$1,669+72%$1,112 – $2,106
West Virginia WV29$1,582+63%$613 – $2,763
Alabama AL16$1,474+52%$707 – $4,092
New Mexico NM10$1,211+25%$594 – $2,660
Colorado CO23$1,139+17%$388 – $4,371
Georgia GA33$1,104+14%$1,051 – $4,460
Idaho ID17$1,092+12%$485 – $4,347
Arkansas AR11$9670%$582 – $1,490
New York NY64$962−1%$382 – $2,062
Mississippi MS26$958−1%$567 – $2,090
North Dakota ND15$894−8%$561 – $1,664
Louisiana LA24$873−10%$639 – $2,403
South Dakota SD16$865−11%$746 – $1,459
Indiana IN33$788−19%$411 – $1,618
Washington WA36$770−21%$577 – $2,242
Wisconsin WI60$764−21%$566 – $1,266
Illinois IL52$744−23%$506 – $1,622
Minnesota MN46$723−25%$535 – $1,738
Nebraska NE48$686−29%$505 – $1,131
Kentucky KY20$662−32%$367 – $1,637
Missouri MO33$660−32%$386 – $1,870
Iowa IA62$657−32%$369 – $1,048
Oregon OR31$637−34%$461 – $970
Michigan MI47$614−37%$194 – $2,271
Vermont VT11$608−37%$438 – $921
Montana MT20$491−49%$310 – $921
Kansas KS55$480−51%$272 – $782
Maine ME14$451−54%$356 – $825
Tennessee TN12$412−58%$249 – $2,065
Oklahoma OK28$380−61%$270 – $1,006
New Hampshire NH10$378−61%$166 – $698
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not 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 $971.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care830$1,589$569 – $3,334
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access505$660$378 – $1,227
Ownership
For-profit100$1,650$614 – $4,460
Government333$729$394 – $1,907
Non-profit915$1,049$484 – $2,557
System affiliation
Part of a system1,020$1,137$523 – $2,712
Independent331$693$385 – $1,624

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,300
Median cash price$971
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

751 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,014 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,209; most fall between $453 and $2,557.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 751 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
$337$566$1,014$2,189$3,938

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($337 vs $3,938).

Of the 826 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 751 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

1,351 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 1,467 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,351
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here67
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 — excluded47
Hospitals that filed this code1,467

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 2.1-3.0 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, 2.1-3 cm (CPT 11643) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11643-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-face-or-ear-2-1-3-cm