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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple stitching of face or lip wound, 7.6 to 12.5 cm

CPT 12015the billing code this page is about

Single-layer stitch repair of a shallow cut on the face, ear, eyelid, nose, lip or mouth lining, where the wound lengths repaired total 7.6 to 12.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $387 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,474 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $417. Most fall between $212 and $719 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,474
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 2,474 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
$167$239$387$635$1,058

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($167 vs $1,058).

How the prices are spread

$123 – $157: 90 hospitals$123$157 – $201: 217 hospitals$201 – $258: 262 hospitals$201$258 – $331: 315 hospitals$331 – $425: 326 hospitals$331$425 – $545: 310 hospitals$545 – $699: 320 hospitals$545$699 – $896: 184 hospitals$896 – $1,149: 113 hospitals$896$1,149 – $1,473: 92 hospitals$1,149median $387price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,229 of 2,474 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$123$15790
$157$201217
$201$258262
$258$331315
$331$425326
$425$545310
$545$699320
$699$896184
$896$1,149113
$1,149$1,47392

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$387
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.89×

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 $387.

Alaska: median $664 across 14 hospitalsAK$664Maine: median $230 across 21 hospitalsME$230Vermont: median $445 across 12 hospitalsVT$445New Hampshire: median $154 across 18 hospitalsNH$154Washington: median $516 across 65 hospitalsWA$516Idaho: median $410 across 20 hospitalsID$410Montana: median $332 across 31 hospitalsMT$332North Dakota: median $345 across 27 hospitalsND$345Minnesota: median $435 across 86 hospitalsMN$435Illinois: median $495 across 115 hospitalsIL$495Wisconsin: median $318 across 80 hospitalsWI$318Michigan: median $317 across 67 hospitalsMI$317New York: median $344 across 93 hospitalsNY$344Massachusetts: median $481 across 40 hospitalsMA$481Oregon: median $353 across 47 hospitalsOR$353Nevada: median $434 across 15 hospitalsNV$434Wyoming: median $396 across 14 hospitalsWY$396South Dakota: median $464 across 31 hospitalsSD$464Iowa: median $319 across 75 hospitalsIA$319Indiana: median $506 across 43 hospitalsIN$506Ohio: median $365 across 83 hospitalsOH$365Pennsylvania: median $507 across 104 hospitalsPA$507New Jersey: median $650 across 46 hospitalsNJ$650Connecticut: median $470 across 19 hospitalsCT$470Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $718 across 129 hospitalsCA$718Utah: median $356 across 27 hospitalsUT$356Colorado: median $437 across 49 hospitalsCO$437Nebraska: median $357 across 62 hospitalsNE$357Missouri: median $425 across 47 hospitalsMO$425Kentucky: median $319 across 40 hospitalsKY$319West Virginia: median $286 across 39 hospitalsWV$286Virginia: median $478 across 55 hospitalsVA$478Maryland: 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 $479 across 30 hospitalsAZ$479New Mexico: median $454 across 25 hospitalsNM$454Kansas: median $350 across 71 hospitalsKS$350Arkansas: median $216 across 30 hospitalsAR$216Tennessee: median $205 across 51 hospitalsTN$205North Carolina: median $330 across 47 hospitalsNC$330South Carolina: median $577 across 44 hospitalsSC$577Oklahoma: median $410 across 63 hospitalsOK$410Louisiana: median $184 across 40 hospitalsLA$184Mississippi: median $229 across 51 hospitalsMS$229Alabama: median $233 across 30 hospitalsAL$233Georgia: median $354 across 87 hospitalsGA$354Hawaii: median $454 across 14 hospitalsHI$454Texas: median $511 across 165 hospitalsTX$511Florida: median $637 across 98 hospitalsFL$637
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $387. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA129$718+85%$374 – $1,322
Alaska AK14$664+71%$305 – $1,148
New Jersey NJ46$650+68%$234 – $4,350
Florida FL98$637+64%$289 – $1,463
South Carolina SC44$577+49%$319 – $671
Washington WA65$516+33%$343 – $737
Texas TX165$511+32%$208 – $660
Pennsylvania PA104$507+31%$227 – $1,189
Indiana IN43$506+31%$214 – $627
Illinois IL115$495+28%$258 – $872
Massachusetts MA40$481+24%$236 – $669
Arizona AZ30$479+24%$195 – $756
Virginia VA55$478+23%$295 – $771
Connecticut CT19$470+21%$293 – $729
South Dakota SD31$464+20%$346 – $577
Hawaii HI14$454+17%$234 – $801
New Mexico NM25$454+17%$261 – $731
Vermont VT12$445+15%$304 – $890
Colorado CO49$437+13%$233 – $646
Minnesota MN86$435+12%$258 – $576
Nevada NV15$434+12%$218 – $624
Missouri MO47$425+10%$192 – $809
Oklahoma OK63$410+6%$166 – $613
Idaho ID20$410+6%$157 – $556
Wyoming WY14$396+2%$123 – $728
Ohio OH83$365−6%$250 – $463
Nebraska NE62$357−8%$232 – $480
Utah UT27$356−8%$327 – $363
Georgia GA87$354−9%$242 – $741
Oregon OR47$353−9%$254 – $617
Kansas KS71$350−10%$200 – $739
North Dakota ND27$345−11%$237 – $454
New York NY93$344−11%$235 – $763
Montana MT31$332−14%$248 – $469
North Carolina NC47$330−15%$206 – $610
Iowa IA75$319−18%$200 – $449
Kentucky KY40$319−18%$218 – $496
Wisconsin WI80$318−18%$190 – $615
Michigan MI67$317−18%$199 – $522
West Virginia WV39$286−26%$228 – $557
Alabama AL30$233−40%$163 – $604
Maine ME21$230−41%$177 – $311
Mississippi MS51$229−41%$109 – $308
Arkansas AR30$216−44%$165 – $477
Tennessee TN51$205−47%$174 – $382
Louisiana LA40$184−53%$88 – $352
New Hampshire NH18$154−60%$121 – $454
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 $387.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,649$409$216 – $771
Children’s37$551$291 – $1,012
Critical access784$357$203 – $568
Ownership
For-profit271$539$208 – $1,319
Government514$341$198 – $587
Non-profit1,685$402$218 – $709
System affiliation
Part of a system1,958$409$224 – $737
Independent516$338$192 – $617

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$644
Median cash price$387
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

1,810 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $420 and the average of the middle 60% is $444; most fall between $228 and $739.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,810 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
$173$261$420$671$1,055

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($173 vs $1,055).

Of the 1,942 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,810 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,474 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,648 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,474
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here79
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,648

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 7.6cm-12.5 Cm.

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 stitching of face or lip wound, 7.6 to 12.5 cm (CPT 12015) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12015-simple-stitching-of-face-or-lip-wound-7-6-to-12-5-cm