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

Removal and replacement of a drug-releasing implant

CPT 11983the billing code this page is about

Removal of a non-dissolving medication implant from under the skin with placement of a new one during the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $432 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,377 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $437. Most fall between $239 and $718 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,377
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,377 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
$142$271$432$594$1,314

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($142 vs $1,314).

How the prices are spread

$94 – $129: 44 hospitals$94$129 – $176: 65 hospitals$176 – $242: 101 hospitals$176$242 – $331: 199 hospitals$331 – $452: 265 hospitals$331$452 – $619: 307 hospitals$619 – $848: 104 hospitals$619$848 – $1,160: 68 hospitals$1,160 – $1,588: 65 hospitals$1,160$1,588 – $2,173: 23 hospitals$1,588median $432price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,241 of 1,377 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$94$12944
$129$17665
$176$242101
$242$331199
$331$452265
$452$619307
$619$848104
$848$1,16068
$1,160$1,58865
$1,588$2,17323

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$456
Median cash price$432
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

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 $432.

Alaska: median $624 across 13 hospitalsAK$624Maine: median $326 across 11 hospitalsME$326Vermont: median $291 across 12 hospitalsVT$291New Hampshire: median $120 across 10 hospitalsNH$120Washington: median $518 across 40 hospitalsWA$518Idaho: median $433 across 18 hospitalsID$433Montana: median $425 across 21 hospitalsMT$425North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $367 across 56 hospitalsMN$367Illinois: median $399 across 42 hospitalsIL$399Wisconsin: median $455 across 74 hospitalsWI$455Michigan: median $414 across 62 hospitalsMI$414New York: median $441 across 71 hospitalsNY$441Massachusetts: median $630 across 21 hospitalsMA$630Oregon: median $258 across 33 hospitalsOR$258Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $538 across 19 hospitalsSD$538Iowa: median $395 across 64 hospitalsIA$395Indiana: median $290 across 30 hospitalsIN$290Ohio: median $565 across 61 hospitalsOH$565Pennsylvania: median $339 across 51 hospitalsPA$339New Jersey: median $532 across 44 hospitalsNJ$532Connecticut: 9 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 $594 across 78 hospitalsCA$594Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $319 across 21 hospitalsCO$319Nebraska: median $410 across 43 hospitalsNE$410Missouri: median $425 across 34 hospitalsMO$425Kentucky: median $287 across 14 hospitalsKY$287West Virginia: median $479 across 25 hospitalsWV$479Virginia: median $533 across 29 hospitalsVA$533Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $330 across 44 hospitalsKS$330Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $180 across 16 hospitalsTN$180North Carolina: median $410 across 26 hospitalsNC$410South Carolina: median $425 across 28 hospitalsSC$425Oklahoma: median $298 across 20 hospitalsOK$298Louisiana: median $185 across 24 hospitalsLA$185Mississippi: median $360 across 10 hospitalsMS$360Alabama: median $344 across 11 hospitalsAL$344Georgia: median $616 across 39 hospitalsGA$616Hawaii: median $292 across 10 hospitalsHI$292Texas: median $374 across 53 hospitalsTX$374Florida: median $594 across 35 hospitalsFL$594
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $432. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA21$630+46%$362 – $1,104
Alaska AK13$624+44%$335 – $999
Georgia GA39$616+43%$482 – $1,564
Florida FL35$594+37%$289 – $1,081
California CA78$594+37%$373 – $1,014
Ohio OH61$565+31%$289 – $2,805
South Dakota SD19$538+25%$431 – $975
Virginia VA29$533+23%$180 – $676
New Jersey NJ44$532+23%$442 – $4,627
Washington WA40$518+20%$266 – $990
West Virginia WV25$479+11%$428 – $575
Wisconsin WI74$455+5%$342 – $535
New York NY71$441+2%$249 – $558
Idaho ID18$4330%$284 – $1,025
South Carolina SC28$425−2%$356 – $553
Montana MT21$425−2%$152 – $514
Missouri MO34$425−2%$262 – $551
Michigan MI62$414−4%$140 – $614
North Carolina NC26$410−5%$123 – $1,314
Nebraska NE43$410−5%$236 – $557
Illinois IL42$399−8%$215 – $750
Iowa IA64$395−9%$230 – $501
Texas TX53$374−13%$211 – $637
Minnesota MN56$367−15%$246 – $568
Mississippi MS10$360−17%$265 – $408
Alabama AL11$344−20%$214 – $519
Pennsylvania PA51$339−21%$270 – $620
Kansas KS44$330−24%$236 – $498
Maine ME11$326−25%$163 – $388
Colorado CO21$319−26%$239 – $2,412
Oklahoma OK20$298−31%$214 – $450
Hawaii HI10$292−32%$157 – $574
Vermont VT12$291−33%$124 – $724
Indiana IN30$290−33%$208 – $434
Kentucky KY14$287−33%$213 – $395
Oregon OR33$258−40%$159 – $505
Louisiana LA24$185−57%$73 – $455
Tennessee TN16$180−58%$171 – $319
New Hampshire NH10$120−72%$118 – $269
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $432.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care904$456$255 – $832
Children’s38$584$315 – $1,445
Critical access433$392$215 – $538
Ownership
For-profit82$504$215 – $1,445
Government316$394$239 – $573
Non-profit977$445$242 – $761
System affiliation
Part of a system1,068$448$247 – $778
Independent309$374$219 – $631

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$613
Median cash price$432
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

878 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $432 and the average of the middle 60% is $446; most fall between $249 and $778.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 878 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
$168$274$432$632$1,427

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($168 vs $1,427).

Of the 935 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 878 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,377 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,480 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,377
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code1,480

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 Rmvl W/Rinsj Non-Biodegradable Drug Dlvr Implt.

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 and replacement of a drug-releasing implant (CPT 11983) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11983-removal-and-replacement-of-a-drug-releasing-implant