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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple wound stitching on trunk or limbs, up to 2.5 cm

CPT 12001the billing code this page is about

Single-layer closure of a shallow cut on the scalp, neck, underarm, genital area, trunk, arms or legs, with a total repaired length of 2.5 cm or less.

Hospitals typically charge $274 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,923 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $288. Most fall between $139 and $510 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,923
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 2,923 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
$95$162$274$457$734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $734).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $87: 108 hospitals$66$87 – $116: 179 hospitals$116 – $153: 237 hospitals$116$153 – $202: 330 hospitals$202 – $268: 435 hospitals$202$268 – $355: 417 hospitals$355 – $469: 369 hospitals$355$469 – $621: 328 hospitals$621 – $822: 154 hospitals$621$822 – $1,088: 74 hospitals$822median $274price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,631 of 2,923 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$87108
$87$116179
$116$153237
$153$202330
$202$268435
$268$355417
$355$469369
$469$621328
$621$822154
$822$1,08874

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$274
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.33×

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 $274.

Alaska: median $372 across 16 hospitalsAK$372Maine: median $137 across 24 hospitalsME$137Vermont: median $218 across 12 hospitalsVT$218New Hampshire: median $175 across 21 hospitalsNH$175Washington: median $318 across 77 hospitalsWA$318Idaho: median $225 across 23 hospitalsID$225Montana: median $182 across 34 hospitalsMT$182North Dakota: median $263 across 28 hospitalsND$263Minnesota: median $272 across 100 hospitalsMN$272Illinois: median $331 across 126 hospitalsIL$331Wisconsin: median $343 across 87 hospitalsWI$343Michigan: median $210 across 85 hospitalsMI$210New York: median $250 across 103 hospitalsNY$250Massachusetts: median $360 across 44 hospitalsMA$360Oregon: median $172 across 54 hospitalsOR$172Nevada: median $253 across 16 hospitalsNV$253Wyoming: median $189 across 14 hospitalsWY$189South Dakota: median $259 across 43 hospitalsSD$259Iowa: median $201 across 91 hospitalsIA$201Indiana: median $297 across 59 hospitalsIN$297Ohio: median $264 across 118 hospitalsOH$264Pennsylvania: median $297 across 125 hospitalsPA$297New Jersey: median $267 across 56 hospitalsNJ$267Connecticut: median $293 across 16 hospitalsCT$293Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $551 across 167 hospitalsCA$551Utah: median $323 across 34 hospitalsUT$323Colorado: median $235 across 58 hospitalsCO$235Nebraska: median $208 across 76 hospitalsNE$208Missouri: median $214 across 70 hospitalsMO$214Kentucky: median $277 across 50 hospitalsKY$277West Virginia: median $271 across 41 hospitalsWV$271Virginia: median $361 across 58 hospitalsVA$361Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $184 across 36 hospitalsAZ$184New Mexico: median $355 across 29 hospitalsNM$355Kansas: median $189 across 88 hospitalsKS$189Arkansas: median $203 across 38 hospitalsAR$203Tennessee: median $165 across 58 hospitalsTN$165North Carolina: median $295 across 58 hospitalsNC$295South Carolina: median $328 across 45 hospitalsSC$328Oklahoma: median $176 across 69 hospitalsOK$176Louisiana: median $171 across 51 hospitalsLA$171Mississippi: median $167 across 52 hospitalsMS$167Alabama: median $224 across 34 hospitalsAL$224Georgia: median $288 across 99 hospitalsGA$288Hawaii: median $403 across 16 hospitalsHI$403Texas: median $334 across 191 hospitalsTX$334Florida: median $503 across 110 hospitalsFL$503
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $274. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA167$551+101%$240 – $946
Florida FL110$503+84%$195 – $1,043
Hawaii HI16$403+47%$267 – $511
Alaska AK16$372+36%$205 – $626
Virginia VA58$361+32%$122 – $471
Massachusetts MA44$360+32%$250 – $497
New Mexico NM29$355+30%$208 – $523
Wisconsin WI87$343+25%$159 – $487
Texas TX191$334+22%$170 – $592
Illinois IL126$331+21%$149 – $513
South Carolina SC45$328+20%$198 – $684
Utah UT34$323+18%$225 – $429
Washington WA77$318+16%$159 – $500
Pennsylvania PA125$297+9%$144 – $544
Indiana IN59$297+9%$180 – $506
North Carolina NC58$295+8%$181 – $374
Connecticut CT16$293+7%$179 – $445
Georgia GA99$288+5%$152 – $741
Kentucky KY50$277+1%$148 – $416
Minnesota MN100$272−1%$146 – $406
West Virginia WV41$271−1%$153 – $403
New Jersey NJ56$267−2%$220 – $3,786
Ohio OH118$264−4%$174 – $457
North Dakota ND28$263−4%$122 – $331
South Dakota SD43$259−5%$119 – $445
Nevada NV16$253−8%$213 – $345
New York NY103$250−8%$126 – $584
Colorado CO58$235−14%$134 – $488
Idaho ID23$225−18%$82 – $556
Alabama AL34$224−18%$90 – $604
Vermont VT12$218−20%$129 – $508
Missouri MO70$214−22%$117 – $417
Michigan MI85$210−23%$92 – $318
Nebraska NE76$208−24%$159 – $307
Arkansas AR38$203−26%$127 – $258
Iowa IA91$201−27%$120 – $309
Wyoming WY14$189−31%$56 – $438
Kansas KS88$189−31%$109 – $300
Arizona AZ36$184−33%$106 – $495
Montana MT34$182−33%$101 – $307
Oklahoma OK69$176−36%$86 – $397
New Hampshire NH21$175−36%$121 – $302
Oregon OR54$172−37%$113 – $402
Louisiana LA51$171−38%$88 – $289
Mississippi MS52$167−39%$104 – $336
Tennessee TN58$165−40%$84 – $307
Maine ME24$137−50%$103 – $197
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not 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 $274.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,948$301$159 – $566
Children’s47$297$162 – $545
Critical access922$216$112 – $368
Ownership
For-profit310$330$167 – $882
Government609$219$119 – $374
Non-profit1,998$281$147 – $516
System affiliation
Part of a system2,313$288$152 – $532
Independent610$209$107 – $396

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$463
Median cash price$274
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

2,174 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $309 and the average of the middle 60% is $319; most fall between $152 and $534.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,174 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
$104$176$309$487$719

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($104 vs $719).

Of the 2,323 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,174 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 94 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,923 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,131 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,923
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here88
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded109
Hospitals that filed this code3,131

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 July 20, 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 Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Simple Repair Scalp/Neck/Ax/Genit/Trunk 2.5cm/<.

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, “Simple wound stitching on trunk or limbs, up to 2.5 cm (CPT 12001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12001-simple-wound-stitching-on-trunk-or-limbs-up-to-2-5-cm