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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple wound stitching on face or lips, up to 2.5 cm

CPT 12011the billing code this page is about

Single-layer closure of a shallow cut on the face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips or mouth lining, with a total repaired length of 2.5 cm or less.

Hospitals typically charge $306 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,751 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $314. Most fall between $154 and $540 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,751
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 2,751 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
$106$186$306$477$800

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $800).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $105: 136 hospitals$81$105 – $138: 184 hospitals$138 – $180: 202 hospitals$138$180 – $235: 362 hospitals$235 – $308: 371 hospitals$235$308 – $402: 461 hospitals$402 – $526: 329 hospitals$402$526 – $687: 220 hospitals$687 – $899: 108 hospitals$687$899 – $1,175: 104 hospitals$899median $306price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,477 of 2,751 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$105136
$105$138184
$138$180202
$180$235362
$235$308371
$308$402461
$402$526329
$526$687220
$687$899108
$899$1,175104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$306
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.49×

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 $306.

Alaska: median $430 across 16 hospitalsAK$430Maine: median $171 across 21 hospitalsME$171Vermont: median $322 across 12 hospitalsVT$322New Hampshire: median $196 across 21 hospitalsNH$196Washington: median $357 across 72 hospitalsWA$357Idaho: median $238 across 20 hospitalsID$238Montana: median $254 across 34 hospitalsMT$254North Dakota: median $280 across 28 hospitalsND$280Minnesota: median $300 across 96 hospitalsMN$300Illinois: median $386 across 122 hospitalsIL$386Wisconsin: median $309 across 86 hospitalsWI$309Michigan: median $223 across 75 hospitalsMI$223New York: median $250 across 100 hospitalsNY$250Massachusetts: median $481 across 48 hospitalsMA$481Oregon: median $210 across 54 hospitalsOR$210Nevada: median $313 across 15 hospitalsNV$313Wyoming: median $272 across 14 hospitalsWY$272South Dakota: median $307 across 43 hospitalsSD$307Iowa: median $241 across 92 hospitalsIA$241Indiana: median $312 across 53 hospitalsIN$312Ohio: median $317 across 92 hospitalsOH$317Pennsylvania: median $309 across 112 hospitalsPA$309New Jersey: median $600 across 52 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $295 across 20 hospitalsCT$295Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $660 across 148 hospitalsCA$660Utah: median $345 across 30 hospitalsUT$345Colorado: median $350 across 55 hospitalsCO$350Nebraska: median $234 across 76 hospitalsNE$234Missouri: median $255 across 55 hospitalsMO$255Kentucky: median $272 across 46 hospitalsKY$272West Virginia: median $263 across 41 hospitalsWV$263Virginia: median $377 across 58 hospitalsVA$377Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $246 across 32 hospitalsAZ$246New Mexico: median $340 across 30 hospitalsNM$340Kansas: median $225 across 77 hospitalsKS$225Arkansas: median $203 across 35 hospitalsAR$203Tennessee: median $164 across 52 hospitalsTN$164North Carolina: median $318 across 49 hospitalsNC$318South Carolina: median $322 across 46 hospitalsSC$322Oklahoma: median $268 across 67 hospitalsOK$268Louisiana: median $196 across 49 hospitalsLA$196Mississippi: median $179 across 53 hospitalsMS$179Alabama: median $222 across 31 hospitalsAL$222Georgia: median $350 across 96 hospitalsGA$350Hawaii: median $475 across 17 hospitalsHI$475Texas: median $391 across 185 hospitalsTX$391Florida: median $484 across 108 hospitalsFL$484
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $306. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA148$660+116%$291 – $1,009
New Jersey NJ52$600+96%$220 – $3,986
Florida FL108$484+58%$204 – $1,028
Massachusetts MA48$481+57%$244 – $1,670
Hawaii HI17$475+55%$293 – $511
Alaska AK16$430+40%$215 – $676
Texas TX185$391+28%$200 – $563
Illinois IL122$386+26%$177 – $540
Virginia VA58$377+23%$110 – $484
Washington WA72$357+17%$205 – $588
Georgia GA96$350+14%$190 – $542
Colorado CO55$350+14%$144 – $524
Utah UT30$345+13%$327 – $369
New Mexico NM30$340+11%$217 – $392
Vermont VT12$322+5%$233 – $644
South Carolina SC46$322+5%$204 – $580
North Carolina NC49$318+4%$182 – $356
Ohio OH92$317+4%$152 – $430
Nevada NV15$313+2%$248 – $548
Indiana IN53$312+2%$203 – $489
Wisconsin WI86$309+1%$187 – $476
Pennsylvania PA112$309+1%$149 – $566
South Dakota SD43$3070%$151 – $431
Minnesota MN96$300−2%$170 – $418
Connecticut CT20$295−4%$149 – $470
North Dakota ND28$280−8%$200 – $355
Wyoming WY14$272−11%$71 – $473
Kentucky KY46$272−11%$178 – $346
Oklahoma OK67$268−12%$105 – $413
West Virginia WV41$263−14%$156 – $416
Missouri MO55$255−17%$148 – $395
Montana MT34$254−17%$123 – $373
New York NY100$250−18%$137 – $584
Arizona AZ32$246−20%$127 – $681
Iowa IA92$241−21%$134 – $362
Idaho ID20$238−22%$123 – $556
Nebraska NE76$234−24%$177 – $333
Kansas KS77$225−26%$128 – $344
Michigan MI75$223−27%$83 – $317
Alabama AL31$222−27%$146 – $440
Oregon OR54$210−31%$154 – $491
Arkansas AR35$203−34%$127 – $245
Louisiana LA49$196−36%$95 – $312
New Hampshire NH21$196−36%$95 – $315
Mississippi MS53$179−41%$101 – $285
Maine ME21$171−44%$125 – $278
Tennessee TN52$164−46%$89 – $358
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $306.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,783$337$172 – $604
Children’s59$433$183 – $967
Critical access904$255$134 – $408
Ownership
For-profit289$380$178 – $1,087
Government593$244$133 – $413
Non-profit1,864$313$163 – $553
System affiliation
Part of a system2,167$315$170 – $556
Independent584$244$125 – $449

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$477
Median cash price$306
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

2,028 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $327 and the average of the middle 60% is $337; most fall between $169 and $556.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,028 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
$118$201$327$496$746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $746).

Of the 2,170 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,028 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 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,751 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,949 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,751
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here86
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 — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code2,949

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 F/E/E/N/L/M 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 face or lips, up to 2.5 cm (CPT 12011) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12011-simple-wound-stitching-on-face-or-lips-up-to-2-5-cm