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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple wound stitching on trunk or limbs, 12.6 to 20 cm

CPT 12005the 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 12.6 to 20 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $468 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,563 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $486. Most fall between $255 and $820 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,563
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 2,563 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
$184$293$468$741$1,175

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($184 vs $1,175).

How the prices are spread

$138 – $178: 111 hospitals$138$178 – $231: 185 hospitals$231 – $299: 250 hospitals$231$299 – $387: 312 hospitals$387 – $501: 431 hospitals$387$501 – $649: 372 hospitals$649 – $840: 281 hospitals$649$840 – $1,088: 175 hospitals$1,088 – $1,409: 129 hospitals$1,088$1,409 – $1,825: 61 hospitals$1,409median $468price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,307 of 2,563 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$138$178111
$178$231185
$231$299250
$299$387312
$387$501431
$501$649372
$649$840281
$840$1,088175
$1,088$1,409129
$1,409$1,82561

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$468
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $468.

Alaska: median $787 across 15 hospitalsAK$787Maine: median $273 across 22 hospitalsME$273Vermont: median $377 across 12 hospitalsVT$377New Hampshire: median $197 across 17 hospitalsNH$197Washington: median $550 across 68 hospitalsWA$550Idaho: median $362 across 20 hospitalsID$362Montana: median $377 across 31 hospitalsMT$377North Dakota: median $410 across 27 hospitalsND$410Minnesota: median $437 across 90 hospitalsMN$437Illinois: median $507 across 117 hospitalsIL$507Wisconsin: median $418 across 74 hospitalsWI$418Michigan: median $393 across 67 hospitalsMI$393New York: median $509 across 95 hospitalsNY$509Massachusetts: median $640 across 42 hospitalsMA$640Oregon: median $428 across 48 hospitalsOR$428Nevada: median $452 across 15 hospitalsNV$452Wyoming: median $358 across 14 hospitalsWY$358South Dakota: median $480 across 29 hospitalsSD$480Iowa: median $311 across 81 hospitalsIA$311Indiana: median $563 across 50 hospitalsIN$563Ohio: median $442 across 86 hospitalsOH$442Pennsylvania: median $753 across 117 hospitalsPA$753New Jersey: median $1,065 across 48 hospitalsNJ$1,065Connecticut: median $500 across 19 hospitalsCT$500Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $674 across 133 hospitalsCA$674Utah: median $657 across 28 hospitalsUT$657Colorado: median $425 across 51 hospitalsCO$425Nebraska: median $373 across 72 hospitalsNE$373Missouri: median $398 across 47 hospitalsMO$398Kentucky: median $327 across 49 hospitalsKY$327West Virginia: median $495 across 39 hospitalsWV$495Virginia: median $557 across 53 hospitalsVA$557Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $293 across 34 hospitalsAZ$293New Mexico: median $472 across 25 hospitalsNM$472Kansas: median $388 across 73 hospitalsKS$388Arkansas: median $430 across 33 hospitalsAR$430Tennessee: median $297 across 51 hospitalsTN$297North Carolina: median $359 across 51 hospitalsNC$359South Carolina: median $621 across 44 hospitalsSC$621Oklahoma: median $364 across 65 hospitalsOK$364Louisiana: median $211 across 40 hospitalsLA$211Mississippi: median $244 across 51 hospitalsMS$244Alabama: median $286 across 30 hospitalsAL$286Georgia: median $629 across 88 hospitalsGA$629Hawaii: median $821 across 15 hospitalsHI$821Texas: median $553 across 175 hospitalsTX$553Florida: median $974 across 98 hospitalsFL$974
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $468. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ48$1,065+128%$471 – $4,350
Florida FL98$974+108%$317 – $1,459
Hawaii HI15$821+76%$234 – $983
Alaska AK15$787+68%$305 – $1,014
Pennsylvania PA117$753+61%$297 – $1,411
California CA133$674+44%$422 – $1,210
Utah UT28$657+41%$506 – $730
Massachusetts MA42$640+37%$340 – $1,696
Georgia GA88$629+35%$305 – $771
South Carolina SC44$621+33%$279 – $733
Indiana IN50$563+20%$224 – $872
Virginia VA53$557+19%$304 – $939
Texas TX175$553+18%$382 – $761
Washington WA68$550+18%$359 – $783
New York NY95$509+9%$188 – $1,026
Illinois IL117$507+8%$258 – $853
Connecticut CT19$500+7%$331 – $862
West Virginia WV39$495+6%$255 – $673
South Dakota SD29$480+3%$346 – $593
New Mexico NM25$472+1%$323 – $668
Nevada NV15$452−3%$270 – $643
Ohio OH86$442−6%$284 – $837
Minnesota MN90$437−7%$301 – $565
Arkansas AR33$430−8%$163 – $645
Oregon OR48$428−8%$322 – $658
Colorado CO51$425−9%$261 – $870
Wisconsin WI74$418−11%$290 – $589
North Dakota ND27$410−12%$269 – $500
Missouri MO47$398−15%$210 – $590
Michigan MI67$393−16%$194 – $523
Kansas KS73$388−17%$210 – $744
Vermont VT12$377−19%$198 – $772
Montana MT31$377−19%$221 – $439
Nebraska NE72$373−20%$241 – $476
Oklahoma OK65$364−22%$183 – $600
Idaho ID20$362−23%$171 – $1,117
North Carolina NC51$359−23%$295 – $616
Wyoming WY14$358−23%$124 – $643
Kentucky KY49$327−30%$244 – $560
Iowa IA81$311−34%$235 – $494
Tennessee TN51$297−37%$196 – $508
Arizona AZ34$293−37%$200 – $773
Alabama AL30$286−39%$152 – $557
Maine ME22$273−42%$181 – $353
Mississippi MS51$244−48%$132 – $531
Louisiana LA40$211−55%$125 – $443
New Hampshire NH17$197−58%$121 – $427
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $468.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,689$506$278 – $983
Children’s37$514$314 – $1,241
Critical access833$393$221 – $600
Ownership
For-profit277$586$279 – $1,509
Government543$377$218 – $650
Non-profit1,739$480$271 – $837
System affiliation
Part of a system2,020$481$277 – $862
Independent543$380$199 – $691

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$763
Median cash price$468
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

1,872 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $493 and the average of the middle 60% is $518; most fall between $275 and $882.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,872 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
$197$304$493$779$1,196

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($197 vs $1,196).

Of the 2,003 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,872 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,563 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,741 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,563
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,741

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 Smpl Rpr Scalp/Neck/Ax/Genit/Trunk 12.6-20.0cm.

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, 12.6 to 20 cm (CPT 12005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12005-simple-wound-stitching-on-trunk-or-limbs-12-6-to-20-cm