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

Removal of a drug-releasing implant under the skin

CPT 11982the billing code this page is about

Removal of a previously placed non-dissolving medication implant from beneath the skin.

Hospitals typically charge $386 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,071 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $429. Most fall between $187 and $919 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,071
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 2,071 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
$127$225$386$738$1,708

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $1,708).

How the prices are spread

$84 – $126: 96 hospitals$84$126 – $188: 220 hospitals$188 – $282: 312 hospitals$188$282 – $423: 382 hospitals$423 – $633: 369 hospitals$423$633 – $948: 178 hospitals$948 – $1,420: 138 hospitals$948$1,420 – $2,126: 90 hospitals$2,126 – $3,185: 24 hospitals$2,126$3,185 – $4,770: 58 hospitals$3,185median $386price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,867 of 2,071 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$84$12696
$126$188220
$188$282312
$282$423382
$423$633369
$633$948178
$948$1,420138
$1,420$2,12690
$2,126$3,18524
$3,185$4,77058

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$456
Median cash price$386
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

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 $386.

Alaska: median $554 across 16 hospitalsAK$554Maine: median $248 across 21 hospitalsME$248Vermont: median $244 across 12 hospitalsVT$244New Hampshire: median $144 across 11 hospitalsNH$144Washington: median $391 across 63 hospitalsWA$391Idaho: median $442 across 21 hospitalsID$442Montana: median $207 across 25 hospitalsMT$207North Dakota: median $346 across 16 hospitalsND$346Minnesota: median $366 across 71 hospitalsMN$366Illinois: median $399 across 61 hospitalsIL$399Wisconsin: median $305 across 93 hospitalsWI$305Michigan: median $372 across 70 hospitalsMI$372New York: median $472 across 96 hospitalsNY$472Massachusetts: median $456 across 45 hospitalsMA$456Oregon: median $274 across 47 hospitalsOR$274Nevada: median $485 across 11 hospitalsNV$485Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $410 across 17 hospitalsSD$410Iowa: median $287 across 71 hospitalsIA$287Indiana: median $238 across 45 hospitalsIN$238Ohio: median $778 across 95 hospitalsOH$778Pennsylvania: median $528 across 84 hospitalsPA$528New Jersey: median $532 across 47 hospitalsNJ$532Connecticut: median $810 across 13 hospitalsCT$810Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $594 across 121 hospitalsCA$594Utah: median $416 across 28 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $552 across 44 hospitalsCO$552Nebraska: median $260 across 60 hospitalsNE$260Missouri: median $416 across 54 hospitalsMO$416Kentucky: median $382 across 33 hospitalsKY$382West Virginia: median $428 across 31 hospitalsWV$428Virginia: median $533 across 40 hospitalsVA$533Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $312 across 18 hospitalsAZ$312New Mexico: median $425 across 18 hospitalsNM$425Kansas: median $269 across 61 hospitalsKS$269Arkansas: median $1,197 across 16 hospitalsAR$1,197Tennessee: median $152 across 43 hospitalsTN$152North Carolina: median $397 across 40 hospitalsNC$397South Carolina: median $319 across 33 hospitalsSC$319Oklahoma: median $252 across 29 hospitalsOK$252Louisiana: median $191 across 30 hospitalsLA$191Mississippi: median $197 across 26 hospitalsMS$197Alabama: median $362 across 21 hospitalsAL$362Georgia: median $1,566 across 54 hospitalsGA$1,566Hawaii: median $299 across 13 hospitalsHI$299Texas: median $342 across 127 hospitalsTX$342Florida: median $738 across 53 hospitalsFL$738
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $386. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA54$1,566+305%$710 – $5,251
Arkansas AR16$1,197+210%$232 – $3,239
Connecticut CT13$810+110%$390 – $919
Ohio OH95$778+101%$311 – $1,448
Florida FL53$738+91%$318 – $1,081
California CA121$594+54%$267 – $1,010
Alaska AK16$554+43%$321 – $806
Colorado CO44$552+43%$219 – $1,411
Virginia VA40$533+38%$128 – $635
New Jersey NJ47$532+38%$442 – $4,621
Pennsylvania PA84$528+37%$198 – $1,031
Nevada NV11$485+26%$353 – $1,330
New York NY96$472+22%$181 – $1,169
Massachusetts MA45$456+18%$290 – $1,230
Idaho ID21$442+14%$97 – $1,025
West Virginia WV31$428+11%$242 – $849
New Mexico NM18$425+10%$186 – $5,237
Missouri MO54$416+8%$229 – $2,962
Utah UT28$416+8%$326 – $466
South Dakota SD17$410+6%$289 – $536
Illinois IL61$399+3%$195 – $693
North Carolina NC40$397+3%$86 – $1,004
Washington WA63$391+1%$201 – $872
Kentucky KY33$382−1%$155 – $1,708
Michigan MI70$372−4%$107 – $647
Minnesota MN71$366−5%$176 – $545
Alabama AL21$362−6%$264 – $8,225
North Dakota ND16$346−10%$198 – $455
Texas TX127$342−11%$271 – $613
South Carolina SC33$319−17%$206 – $325
Arizona AZ18$312−19%$191 – $681
Wisconsin WI93$305−21%$252 – $579
Hawaii HI13$299−23%$126 – $580
Iowa IA71$287−26%$126 – $474
Oregon OR47$274−29%$163 – $608
Kansas KS61$269−30%$146 – $541
Nebraska NE60$260−33%$208 – $392
Oklahoma OK29$252−35%$164 – $814
Maine ME21$248−36%$182 – $440
Vermont VT12$244−37%$88 – $547
Indiana IN45$238−38%$145 – $536
Montana MT25$207−46%$148 – $346
Mississippi MS26$197−49%$108 – $292
Louisiana LA30$191−50%$90 – $477
Tennessee TN43$152−61%$126 – $1,290
New Hampshire NH11$144−63%$85 – $233
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $386.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,441$482$214 – $1,166
Children’s38$416$226 – $1,223
Critical access587$275$160 – $455
Ownership
For-profit176$737$260 – $5,187
Government428$308$172 – $595
Non-profit1,462$404$184 – $839
System affiliation
Part of a system1,663$412$204 – $1,004
Independent408$318$149 – $644

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$596
Median cash price$386
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

1,382 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $395 and the average of the middle 60% is $436; most fall between $197 and $859.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,382 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
$128$231$395$725$1,397

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $1,397).

Of the 1,481 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,382 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,071 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,221 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,071
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded74
Hospitals that filed this code2,221

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 Removal Non-Biodegradable Drug Delivery 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 drug-releasing implant under the skin (CPT 11982) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11982-removal-of-a-drug-releasing-implant-under-the-skin