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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple wound stitching on trunk or limbs, 7.6 to 12.5 cm

CPT 12004the 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 7.6 to 12.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $348 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,685 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $360. Most fall between $189 and $594 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,685
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 2,685 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
$135$212$348$552$854

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $854).

How the prices are spread

$106 – $136: 139 hospitals$106$136 – $176: 191 hospitals$176 – $226: 286 hospitals$176$226 – $291: 374 hospitals$291 – $375: 334 hospitals$291$375 – $483: 396 hospitals$483 – $622: 343 hospitals$483$622 – $801: 159 hospitals$801 – $1,031: 131 hospitals$801$1,031 – $1,328: 65 hospitals$1,031median $348price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,418 of 2,685 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$106$136139
$136$176191
$176$226286
$226$291374
$291$375334
$375$483396
$483$622343
$622$801159
$801$1,031131
$1,031$1,32865

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$348
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.70×

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 $348.

Alaska: median $521 across 16 hospitalsAK$521Maine: median $203 across 23 hospitalsME$203Vermont: median $374 across 12 hospitalsVT$374New Hampshire: median $225 across 20 hospitalsNH$225Washington: median $384 across 71 hospitalsWA$384Idaho: median $277 across 21 hospitalsID$277Montana: median $265 across 34 hospitalsMT$265North Dakota: median $301 across 28 hospitalsND$301Minnesota: median $350 across 94 hospitalsMN$350Illinois: median $444 across 118 hospitalsIL$444Wisconsin: median $320 across 82 hospitalsWI$320Michigan: median $277 across 71 hospitalsMI$277New York: median $320 across 98 hospitalsNY$320Massachusetts: median $559 across 41 hospitalsMA$559Oregon: median $242 across 53 hospitalsOR$242Nevada: median $325 across 15 hospitalsNV$325Wyoming: median $247 across 14 hospitalsWY$247South Dakota: median $384 across 38 hospitalsSD$384Iowa: median $282 across 88 hospitalsIA$282Indiana: median $408 across 49 hospitalsIN$408Ohio: median $362 across 92 hospitalsOH$362Pennsylvania: median $428 across 121 hospitalsPA$428New Jersey: median $701 across 55 hospitalsNJ$701Connecticut: median $390 across 20 hospitalsCT$390Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $572 across 137 hospitalsCA$572Utah: median $345 across 29 hospitalsUT$345Colorado: median $375 across 51 hospitalsCO$375Nebraska: median $288 across 73 hospitalsNE$288Missouri: median $255 across 55 hospitalsMO$255Kentucky: median $287 across 45 hospitalsKY$287West Virginia: median $342 across 41 hospitalsWV$342Virginia: median $534 across 56 hospitalsVA$534Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $228 across 36 hospitalsAZ$228New Mexico: median $449 across 28 hospitalsNM$449Kansas: median $257 across 78 hospitalsKS$257Arkansas: median $216 across 34 hospitalsAR$216Tennessee: median $224 across 54 hospitalsTN$224North Carolina: median $330 across 48 hospitalsNC$330South Carolina: median $528 across 44 hospitalsSC$528Oklahoma: median $276 across 67 hospitalsOK$276Louisiana: median $196 across 49 hospitalsLA$196Mississippi: median $215 across 52 hospitalsMS$215Alabama: median $222 across 30 hospitalsAL$222Georgia: median $514 across 92 hospitalsGA$514Hawaii: median $475 across 16 hospitalsHI$475Texas: median $421 across 177 hospitalsTX$421Florida: median $695 across 103 hospitalsFL$695
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $348. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ55$701+101%$220 – $3,786
Florida FL103$695+100%$369 – $1,389
California CA137$572+64%$316 – $1,056
Massachusetts MA41$559+61%$363 – $1,680
Virginia VA56$534+53%$305 – $854
South Carolina SC44$528+52%$203 – $754
Alaska AK16$521+50%$265 – $836
Georgia GA92$514+48%$216 – $741
Hawaii HI16$475+36%$467 – $615
New Mexico NM28$449+29%$266 – $730
Illinois IL118$444+27%$209 – $630
Pennsylvania PA121$428+23%$186 – $828
Texas TX177$421+21%$208 – $585
Indiana IN49$408+17%$211 – $627
Connecticut CT20$390+12%$281 – $470
South Dakota SD38$384+10%$306 – $534
Washington WA71$384+10%$216 – $578
Colorado CO51$375+8%$225 – $618
Vermont VT12$374+8%$245 – $685
Ohio OH92$362+4%$214 – $461
Minnesota MN94$350+1%$224 – $503
Utah UT29$345−1%$327 – $381
West Virginia WV41$342−2%$194 – $495
North Carolina NC48$330−5%$231 – $563
Nevada NV15$325−7%$210 – $501
Wisconsin WI82$320−8%$203 – $513
New York NY98$320−8%$178 – $627
North Dakota ND28$301−14%$204 – $406
Nebraska NE73$288−17%$202 – $407
Kentucky KY45$287−17%$169 – $367
Iowa IA88$282−19%$184 – $399
Idaho ID21$277−20%$133 – $556
Michigan MI71$277−20%$106 – $434
Oklahoma OK67$276−21%$138 – $443
Montana MT34$265−24%$146 – $391
Kansas KS78$257−26%$162 – $402
Missouri MO55$255−27%$148 – $365
Wyoming WY14$247−29%$96 – $507
Oregon OR53$242−30%$168 – $467
Arizona AZ36$228−35%$150 – $575
New Hampshire NH20$225−35%$121 – $363
Tennessee TN54$224−36%$124 – $364
Alabama AL30$222−36%$118 – $393
Arkansas AR34$216−38%$140 – $378
Mississippi MS52$215−38%$109 – $355
Maine ME23$203−42%$136 – $293
Louisiana LA49$196−44%$88 – $281
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $348.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,761$377$198 – $735
Children’s38$470$267 – $973
Critical access881$304$171 – $470
Ownership
For-profit290$454$208 – $1,121
Government569$281$170 – $482
Non-profit1,821$358$196 – $586
System affiliation
Part of a system2,112$364$204 – $608
Independent573$276$154 – $506

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$562
Median cash price$348
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

1,979 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $381 and the average of the middle 60% is $389; most fall between $203 and $629.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,979 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
$148$227$381$572$854

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $854).

Of the 2,120 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,979 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,685 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,879 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,685
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,879

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 Rpr Scalp/Neck/Ax/Genit/Trunk 7.6-12.5cm.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Simple wound stitching on trunk or limbs, 7.6 to 12.5 cm (CPT 12004) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12004-simple-wound-stitching-on-trunk-or-limbs-7-6-to-12-5-cm