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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Cancerous skin lesion removal, face or ear, 3.1-4 cm

CPT 11644the 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 3.1 to 4 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $1,106 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,147 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,317. Most fall between $542 and $2,703 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,147
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 1,147 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
$381$628$1,106$2,271$4,293

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($381 vs $4,293).

How the prices are spread

$259 – $351: 45 hospitals$259$351 – $477: 90 hospitals$477 – $648: 102 hospitals$477$648 – $881: 153 hospitals$881 – $1,196: 143 hospitals$881$1,196 – $1,625: 101 hospitals$1,625 – $2,208: 166 hospitals$1,625$2,208 – $2,999: 88 hospitals$2,999 – $4,074: 61 hospitals$2,999$4,074 – $5,534: 84 hospitals$4,074median $1,106price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,033 of 1,147 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$259$35145
$351$47790
$477$648102
$648$881153
$881$1,196143
$1,196$1,625101
$1,625$2,208166
$2,208$2,99988
$2,999$4,07461
$4,074$5,53484

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,106
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 $1,106.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $509 across 14 hospitalsME$509Vermont: median $929 across 10 hospitalsVT$929New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $791 across 28 hospitalsWA$791Idaho: median $2,157 across 15 hospitalsID$2,157Montana: median $681 across 18 hospitalsMT$681North Dakota: median $1,023 across 14 hospitalsND$1,023Minnesota: median $1,025 across 38 hospitalsMN$1,025Illinois: median $1,029 across 46 hospitalsIL$1,029Wisconsin: median $941 across 56 hospitalsWI$941Michigan: median $760 across 43 hospitalsMI$760New York: median $1,373 across 50 hospitalsNY$1,373Massachusetts: median $2,500 across 20 hospitalsMA$2,500Oregon: median $731 across 27 hospitalsOR$731Nevada: 5 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 $1,534 across 14 hospitalsSD$1,534Iowa: median $964 across 54 hospitalsIA$964Indiana: median $967 across 33 hospitalsIN$967Ohio: median $1,767 across 39 hospitalsOH$1,767Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 49 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 35 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 4 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 $2,701 across 45 hospitalsCA$2,701Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,497 across 22 hospitalsCO$1,497Nebraska: median $844 across 47 hospitalsNE$844Missouri: median $1,594 across 31 hospitalsMO$1,594Kentucky: median $686 across 18 hospitalsKY$686West Virginia: median $1,505 across 26 hospitalsWV$1,505Virginia: median $2,512 across 25 hospitalsVA$2,512Maryland: 2 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $492 across 43 hospitalsKS$492Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $321 across 17 hospitalsTN$321North Carolina: median $2,070 across 22 hospitalsNC$2,070South Carolina: median $3,384 across 11 hospitalsSC$3,384Oklahoma: median $461 across 21 hospitalsOK$461Louisiana: median $1,450 across 20 hospitalsLA$1,450Mississippi: median $628 across 16 hospitalsMS$628Alabama: median $1,700 across 15 hospitalsAL$1,700Georgia: median $1,765 across 18 hospitalsGA$1,765Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,107 across 43 hospitalsTX$2,107Florida: median $3,877 across 34 hospitalsFL$3,877
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,106. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL34$3,877+251%$1,452 – $5,234
South Carolina SC11$3,384+206%$1,675 – $4,964
California CA45$2,701+144%$763 – $4,222
Virginia VA25$2,512+127%$837 – $3,542
Massachusetts MA20$2,500+126%$1,276 – $4,198
New Jersey NJ35$2,162+95%$1,795 – $5,419
Idaho ID15$2,157+95%$567 – $4,347
Texas TX43$2,107+90%$811 – $2,974
North Carolina NC22$2,070+87%$1,490 – $2,793
Pennsylvania PA49$1,951+76%$259 – $3,452
Ohio OH39$1,767+60%$461 – $5,043
Georgia GA18$1,765+60%$927 – $4,390
Alabama AL15$1,700+54%$692 – $5,272
Missouri MO31$1,594+44%$504 – $2,411
South Dakota SD14$1,534+39%$794 – $2,172
West Virginia WV26$1,505+36%$673 – $1,904
Colorado CO22$1,497+35%$428 – $4,371
Louisiana LA20$1,450+31%$607 – $2,403
New York NY50$1,373+24%$469 – $2,062
Illinois IL46$1,029−7%$532 – $1,941
Minnesota MN38$1,025−7%$629 – $2,130
North Dakota ND14$1,023−8%$687 – $1,664
Indiana IN33$967−13%$485 – $2,006
Iowa IA54$964−13%$490 – $1,141
Wisconsin WI56$941−15%$698 – $1,266
Vermont VT10$929−16%$410 – $1,707
Nebraska NE47$844−24%$671 – $1,370
Washington WA28$791−28%$626 – $1,843
Michigan MI43$760−31%$197 – $1,758
Oregon OR27$731−34%$381 – $1,396
Kentucky KY18$686−38%$429 – $1,558
Montana MT18$681−38%$410 – $1,186
Mississippi MS16$628−43%$555 – $3,245
Maine ME14$509−54%$455 – $1,292
Kansas KS43$492−56%$375 – $772
Oklahoma OK21$461−58%$461 – $3,189
Tennessee TN17$321−71%$291 – $2,065
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $1,106.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care710$1,758$654 – $3,580
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access427$794$455 – $1,544
Ownership
For-profit75$2,028$656 – $5,272
Government286$909$480 – $2,027
Non-profit785$1,260$563 – $2,915
System affiliation
Part of a system858$1,411$586 – $3,189
Independent289$832$469 – $1,828

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,530
Median cash price$1,106
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

640 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,091 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,349; most fall between $533 and $2,933.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 640 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
$394$660$1,091$2,470$4,222

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($394 vs $4,222).

Of the 704 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 640 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,147 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,253 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,147
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
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 — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,253

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 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, face or ear, 3.1-4 cm (CPT 11644) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11644-cancerous-skin-lesion-removal-face-or-ear-3-1-4-cm