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

Removal of a tissue expander without placing an implant

CPT 11971the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a temporary tissue expander when no permanent implant is put in during the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $3,128 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 621 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,040. Most fall between $905 and $6,269 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
621
States
47
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 621 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
$608$1,012$3,128$5,741$9,287

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($608 vs $9,287).

How the prices are spread

$374 – $535: 20 hospitals$374$535 – $764: 39 hospitals$764 – $1,093: 75 hospitals$764$1,093 – $1,562: 61 hospitals$1,562 – $2,233: 37 hospitals$1,562$2,233 – $3,192: 65 hospitals$3,192 – $4,564: 90 hospitals$3,192$4,564 – $6,524: 83 hospitals$6,524 – $9,327: 58 hospitals$6,524$9,327 – $13,334: 31 hospitals$9,327median $3,128price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (559 of 621 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$374$53520
$535$76439
$764$1,09375
$1,093$1,56261
$1,562$2,23337
$2,233$3,19265
$3,192$4,56490
$4,564$6,52483
$6,524$9,32758
$9,327$13,33431

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$3,128
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $3,128.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,397 across 21 hospitalsWA$5,397Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $953 across 22 hospitalsMN$953Illinois: median $769 across 29 hospitalsIL$769Wisconsin: median $1,511 across 35 hospitalsWI$1,511Michigan: median $1,511 across 21 hospitalsMI$1,511New York: median $3,387 across 37 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $3,821 across 11 hospitalsMA$3,821Oregon: median $4,441 across 24 hospitalsOR$4,441Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,177 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,177Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,825 across 20 hospitalsOH$1,825Pennsylvania: median $3,349 across 37 hospitalsPA$3,349New Jersey: median $4,627 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,850 across 66 hospitalsCA$4,850Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $770 across 12 hospitalsMO$770Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,612 across 16 hospitalsVA$3,612Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $905 across 13 hospitalsOK$905Louisiana: median $1,525 across 10 hospitalsLA$1,525Mississippi: median $1,565 across 12 hospitalsMS$1,565Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,778 across 10 hospitalsGA$5,778Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,128 across 31 hospitalsTX$3,128Florida: median $5,665 across 15 hospitalsFL$5,665
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,128. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$5,778+85%$5,778 – $6,010
Florida FL15$5,665+81%$1,825 – $7,205
Washington WA21$5,397+73%$1,344 – $8,563
California CA66$4,850+55%$3,291 – $7,717
New Jersey NJ33$4,627+48%$3,171 – $5,855
Oregon OR24$4,441+42%$1,024 – $5,957
Massachusetts MA11$3,821+22%$2,570 – $4,779
Virginia VA16$3,612+15%$2,519 – $4,691
New York NY37$3,387+8%$1,638 – $3,626
Pennsylvania PA37$3,349+7%$405 – $5,393
Texas TX31$3,1280%$2,745 – $3,743
Ohio OH20$1,825−42%$813 – $13,376
Mississippi MS12$1,565−50%$869 – $7,199
Louisiana LA10$1,525−51%$416 – $7,463
Michigan MI21$1,511−52%$690 – $3,994
Wisconsin WI35$1,511−52%$1,382 – $3,709
Iowa IA17$1,177−62%$1,177 – $1,388
Minnesota MN22$953−70%$916 – $2,363
Oklahoma OK13$905−71%$905 – $5,132
Missouri MO12$770−75%$745 – $12,183
Illinois IL29$769−75%$268 – $2,843
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $3,128.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care505$3,171$905 – $6,163
Children’s26$3,539$880 – $13,159
Critical access89$1,511$791 – $5,793
Ownership
For-profit52$3,128$656 – $8,652
Government76$2,443$809 – $6,137
Non-profit492$3,128$937 – $6,058
System affiliation
Part of a system514$3,302$937 – $6,662
Independent107$1,635$711 – $4,950

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,216
Median cash price$3,128
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

358 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,443 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,751; most fall between $874 and $5,778.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 358 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
$608$920$2,443$4,850$7,717

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($608 vs $7,717).

Of the 385 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 358 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

621 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 670 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted621
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code670

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 OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Tissue Expander W/O Insertion Implant.

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, “Removal of a tissue expander without placing an implant (CPT 11971) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11971-removal-of-a-tissue-expander-without-placing-an-implant