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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Thinning or removal of diseased nail, 1 to 5 nails

CPT 11720the billing code this page is about

Filing, grinding or cutting away of thickened or damaged nail material by any method, billed once for a total of one to five nails treated.

Hospitals typically charge $97 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,405 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $108. Most fall between $47 and $199 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,405
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 2,405 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
$32$56$97$180$316

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $316).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $30: 82 hospitals$22$30 – $40: 153 hospitals$40 – $54: 212 hospitals$40$54 – $72: 291 hospitals$72 – $97: 351 hospitals$72$97 – $131: 289 hospitals$131 – $176: 294 hospitals$131$176 – $237: 226 hospitals$237 – $319: 152 hospitals$237$319 – $429: 117 hospitals$319median $97price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,167 of 2,405 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$3082
$30$40153
$40$54212
$54$72291
$72$97351
$97$131289
$131$176294
$176$237226
$237$319152
$319$429117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$97
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.61×

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 $97.

Alaska: median $119 across 15 hospitalsAK$119Maine: median $54 across 22 hospitalsME$54Vermont: median $63 across 12 hospitalsVT$63New Hampshire: median $35 across 16 hospitalsNH$35Washington: median $89 across 66 hospitalsWA$89Idaho: median $106 across 22 hospitalsID$106Montana: median $54 across 21 hospitalsMT$54North Dakota: median $87 across 16 hospitalsND$87Minnesota: median $82 across 80 hospitalsMN$82Illinois: median $98 across 98 hospitalsIL$98Wisconsin: median $68 across 91 hospitalsWI$68Michigan: median $88 across 86 hospitalsMI$88New York: median $130 across 94 hospitalsNY$130Massachusetts: median $149 across 41 hospitalsMA$149Oregon: median $60 across 49 hospitalsOR$60Nevada: median $78 across 15 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $46 across 10 hospitalsWY$46South Dakota: median $90 across 20 hospitalsSD$90Iowa: median $65 across 67 hospitalsIA$65Indiana: median $124 across 57 hospitalsIN$124Ohio: median $150 across 123 hospitalsOH$150Pennsylvania: median $120 across 111 hospitalsPA$120New Jersey: median $81 across 56 hospitalsNJ$81Connecticut: median $107 across 20 hospitalsCT$107Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $170 across 144 hospitalsCA$170Utah: median $366 across 30 hospitalsUT$366Colorado: median $102 across 50 hospitalsCO$102Nebraska: median $72 across 61 hospitalsNE$72Missouri: median $83 across 48 hospitalsMO$83Kentucky: median $96 across 33 hospitalsKY$96West Virginia: median $70 across 31 hospitalsWV$70Virginia: median $89 across 46 hospitalsVA$89Maryland: median $459 across 14 hospitalsMD$459Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $50 across 24 hospitalsAZ$50New Mexico: median $82 across 13 hospitalsNM$82Kansas: median $59 across 61 hospitalsKS$59Arkansas: median $50 across 16 hospitalsAR$50Tennessee: median $46 across 38 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $89 across 59 hospitalsNC$89South Carolina: median $153 across 38 hospitalsSC$153Oklahoma: median $57 across 37 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $86 across 45 hospitalsLA$86Mississippi: median $54 across 44 hospitalsMS$54Alabama: median $99 across 35 hospitalsAL$99Georgia: median $162 across 76 hospitalsGA$162Hawaii: median $168 across 13 hospitalsHI$168Texas: median $167 across 156 hospitalsTX$167Florida: median $165 across 72 hospitalsFL$165
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $97. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD14$459+374%$211 – $635
Utah UT30$366+279%$93 – $407
California CA144$170+76%$99 – $316
Hawaii HI13$168+74%$37 – $263
Texas TX156$167+72%$58 – $208
Florida FL72$165+70%$69 – $319
Georgia GA76$162+67%$74 – $421
South Carolina SC38$153+58%$101 – $266
Ohio OH123$150+54%$73 – $292
Massachusetts MA41$149+54%$59 – $317
New York NY94$130+34%$42 – $210
Indiana IN57$124+28%$48 – $205
Pennsylvania PA111$120+24%$48 – $232
Alaska AK15$119+23%$83 – $159
Connecticut CT20$107+10%$64 – $144
Idaho ID22$106+10%$44 – $230
Colorado CO50$102+5%$48 – $124
Alabama AL35$99+3%$59 – $291
Illinois IL98$98+1%$48 – $182
Kentucky KY33$96−1%$38 – $239
South Dakota SD20$90−7%$59 – $142
Washington WA66$89−8%$55 – $133
Virginia VA46$89−8%$35 – $239
North Carolina NC59$89−8%$59 – $160
Michigan MI86$88−9%$29 – $168
North Dakota ND16$87−10%$59 – $145
Louisiana LA45$86−12%$34 – $130
Missouri MO48$83−15%$45 – $170
Minnesota MN80$82−15%$48 – $141
New Mexico NM13$82−16%$40 – $111
New Jersey NJ56$81−16%$66 – $3,786
Nevada NV15$78−19%$37 – $148
Nebraska NE61$72−26%$44 – $89
West Virginia WV31$70−28%$50 – $168
Wisconsin WI91$68−30%$46 – $95
Iowa IA67$65−33%$32 – $123
Vermont VT12$63−35%$33 – $89
Oregon OR49$60−38%$41 – $105
Kansas KS61$59−39%$38 – $95
Oklahoma OK37$57−41%$27 – $162
Maine ME22$54−44%$34 – $115
Mississippi MS44$54−44%$36 – $120
Montana MT21$54−44%$31 – $68
Arizona AZ24$50−48%$38 – $107
Arkansas AR16$50−49%$36 – $119
Wyoming WY10$46−52%$26 – $149
Tennessee TN38$46−53%$17 – $134
New Hampshire NH16$35−63%$28 – $82
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $97.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,709$113$57 – $234
Children’s28$144$69 – $316
Critical access662$69$35 – $133
Ownership
For-profit223$130$58 – $329
Government478$72$40 – $150
Non-profit1,698$105$49 – $206
System affiliation
Part of a system1,896$107$51 – $216
Independent509$74$40 – $160

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$176
Median cash price$97
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,758 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $113 and the average of the middle 60% is $123; most fall between $56 and $226.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,758 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
$35$67$113$190$320

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $320).

Of the 1,889 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,758 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,405 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,579 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,405
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here82
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 — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code2,579

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Debridement Nail Any Method 1-5.

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, “Thinning or removal of diseased nail, 1 to 5 nails (CPT 11720) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11720-thinning-or-removal-of-diseased-nail-1-to-5-nails