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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple stitching of face or lip wound, 12.6 to 20 cm

CPT 12016the 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 12.6 to 20 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $522 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,183 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $540. Most fall between $284 and $922 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,183
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 2,183 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
$203$328$522$808$1,313

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $1,313).

How the prices are spread

$146 – $188: 75 hospitals$146$188 – $242: 117 hospitals$242 – $312: 214 hospitals$242$312 – $402: 240 hospitals$402 – $517: 321 hospitals$402$517 – $666: 340 hospitals$666 – $857: 254 hospitals$666$857 – $1,104: 189 hospitals$1,104 – $1,421: 134 hospitals$1,104$1,421 – $1,829: 81 hospitals$1,421median $522price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,965 of 2,183 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$146$18875
$188$242117
$242$312214
$312$402240
$402$517321
$517$666340
$666$857254
$857$1,104189
$1,104$1,421134
$1,421$1,82981

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$522
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.26×

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 $522.

Alaska: median $629 across 14 hospitalsAK$629Maine: median $293 across 21 hospitalsME$293Vermont: median $446 across 10 hospitalsVT$446New Hampshire: median $238 across 14 hospitalsNH$238Washington: median $602 across 66 hospitalsWA$602Idaho: median $545 across 20 hospitalsID$545Montana: median $418 across 29 hospitalsMT$418North Dakota: median $445 across 23 hospitalsND$445Minnesota: median $423 across 69 hospitalsMN$423Illinois: median $535 across 103 hospitalsIL$535Wisconsin: median $541 across 67 hospitalsWI$541Michigan: median $406 across 49 hospitalsMI$406New York: median $567 across 87 hospitalsNY$567Massachusetts: median $723 across 34 hospitalsMA$723Oregon: median $531 across 45 hospitalsOR$531Nevada: median $469 across 15 hospitalsNV$469Wyoming: median $475 across 12 hospitalsWY$475South Dakota: median $593 across 20 hospitalsSD$593Iowa: median $370 across 64 hospitalsIA$370Indiana: median $721 across 39 hospitalsIN$721Ohio: median $464 across 75 hospitalsOH$464Pennsylvania: median $846 across 103 hospitalsPA$846New Jersey: median $1,058 across 45 hospitalsNJ$1,058Connecticut: median $444 across 14 hospitalsCT$444Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $953 across 125 hospitalsCA$953Utah: median $531 across 27 hospitalsUT$531Colorado: median $554 across 42 hospitalsCO$554Nebraska: median $435 across 47 hospitalsNE$435Missouri: median $478 across 41 hospitalsMO$478Kentucky: median $330 across 33 hospitalsKY$330West Virginia: median $482 across 32 hospitalsWV$482Virginia: median $552 across 51 hospitalsVA$552Maryland: 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 $499 across 26 hospitalsAZ$499New Mexico: median $447 across 16 hospitalsNM$447Kansas: median $389 across 56 hospitalsKS$389Arkansas: median $229 across 21 hospitalsAR$229Tennessee: median $265 across 40 hospitalsTN$265North Carolina: median $444 across 39 hospitalsNC$444South Carolina: median $635 across 42 hospitalsSC$635Oklahoma: median $451 across 53 hospitalsOK$451Louisiana: median $211 across 37 hospitalsLA$211Mississippi: median $229 across 43 hospitalsMS$229Alabama: median $286 across 28 hospitalsAL$286Georgia: median $524 across 79 hospitalsGA$524Hawaii: median $954 across 14 hospitalsHI$954Texas: median $607 across 156 hospitalsTX$607Florida: median $1,124 across 83 hospitalsFL$1,124
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $522. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL83$1,124+115%$306 – $1,984
New Jersey NJ45$1,058+103%$471 – $4,350
Hawaii HI14$954+83%$295 – $1,398
California CA125$953+83%$541 – $1,422
Pennsylvania PA103$846+62%$363 – $1,792
Massachusetts MA34$723+39%$409 – $3,704
Indiana IN39$721+38%$285 – $1,046
South Carolina SC42$635+22%$372 – $761
Alaska AK14$629+21%$335 – $1,157
Texas TX156$607+16%$401 – $875
Washington WA66$602+15%$393 – $1,086
South Dakota SD20$593+14%$401 – $614
New York NY87$567+9%$377 – $1,107
Colorado CO42$554+6%$297 – $1,019
Virginia VA51$552+6%$305 – $887
Idaho ID20$545+5%$228 – $1,117
Wisconsin WI67$541+4%$267 – $738
Illinois IL103$535+3%$361 – $863
Oregon OR45$531+2%$352 – $742
Utah UT27$531+2%$362 – $730
Georgia GA79$5240%$350 – $676
Arizona AZ26$499−4%$299 – $1,002
West Virginia WV32$482−7%$202 – $659
Missouri MO41$478−8%$250 – $777
Wyoming WY12$475−9%$270 – $782
Nevada NV15$469−10%$270 – $670
Ohio OH75$464−11%$320 – $779
Oklahoma OK53$451−13%$226 – $834
New Mexico NM16$447−14%$253 – $702
Vermont VT10$446−14%$356 – $759
North Dakota ND23$445−15%$269 – $653
North Carolina NC39$444−15%$215 – $638
Connecticut CT14$444−15%$251 – $1,062
Nebraska NE47$435−17%$262 – $513
Minnesota MN69$423−19%$316 – $593
Montana MT29$418−20%$255 – $610
Michigan MI49$406−22%$267 – $559
Kansas KS56$389−25%$280 – $800
Iowa IA64$370−29%$244 – $540
Kentucky KY33$330−37%$276 – $645
Maine ME21$293−44%$181 – $439
Alabama AL28$286−45%$218 – $535
Tennessee TN40$265−49%$243 – $508
New Hampshire NH14$238−54%$154 – $586
Mississippi MS43$229−56%$120 – $497
Arkansas AR21$229−56%$165 – $514
Louisiana LA37$211−60%$120 – $393
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 $522.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,488$547$306 – $1,019
Children’s33$741$387 – $1,509
Critical access660$429$253 – $705
Ownership
For-profit223$595$295 – $1,482
Government447$444$263 – $761
Non-profit1,511$531$292 – $919
System affiliation
Part of a system1,720$535$304 – $950
Independent463$416$228 – $800

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$878
Median cash price$522
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,621 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $547 and the average of the middle 60% is $567; most fall between $287 and $958.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,621 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
$213$335$547$867$1,376

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $1,376).

Of the 1,735 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,621 gave a usable cash price; 41 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,183 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,332 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,183
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded80
Hospitals that filed this code2,332

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 12.6cm-20.0 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, 12.6 to 20 cm (CPT 12016) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12016-simple-stitching-of-face-or-lip-wound-12-6-to-20-cm