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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Simple stitching of face or lip wound, 20.1 to 30 cm

CPT 12017the 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 20.1 to 30 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $543 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,617 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $563. Most fall between $286 and $978 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,617
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 1,617 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
$206$331$543$837$1,406

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($206 vs $1,406).

How the prices are spread

$152 – $197: 66 hospitals$152$197 – $256: 89 hospitals$256 – $332: 174 hospitals$256$332 – $431: 220 hospitals$431 – $560: 205 hospitals$431$560 – $727: 236 hospitals$727 – $944: 201 hospitals$727$944 – $1,226: 147 hospitals$1,226 – $1,592: 73 hospitals$1,226$1,592 – $2,067: 54 hospitals$1,592median $543price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,465 of 1,617 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$152$19766
$197$25689
$256$332174
$332$431220
$431$560205
$560$727236
$727$944201
$944$1,226147
$1,226$1,59273
$1,592$2,06754

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$543
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.31×

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 $543.

Alaska: median $692 across 12 hospitalsAK$692Maine: median $340 across 15 hospitalsME$340Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $226 across 10 hospitalsNH$226Washington: median $618 across 45 hospitalsWA$618Idaho: median $1,117 across 15 hospitalsID$1,117Montana: median $320 across 16 hospitalsMT$320North Dakota: median $412 across 18 hospitalsND$412Minnesota: median $467 across 26 hospitalsMN$467Illinois: median $590 across 75 hospitalsIL$590Wisconsin: median $738 across 46 hospitalsWI$738Michigan: median $393 across 35 hospitalsMI$393New York: median $572 across 64 hospitalsNY$572Massachusetts: median $790 across 26 hospitalsMA$790Oregon: median $404 across 38 hospitalsOR$404Nevada: median $392 across 10 hospitalsNV$392Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $786 across 15 hospitalsSD$786Iowa: median $418 across 46 hospitalsIA$418Indiana: median $793 across 36 hospitalsIN$793Ohio: median $628 across 64 hospitalsOH$628Pennsylvania: median $751 across 58 hospitalsPA$751New Jersey: median $1,065 across 35 hospitalsNJ$1,065Connecticut: median $945 across 10 hospitalsCT$945Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $722 across 108 hospitalsCA$722Utah: median $369 across 26 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $695 across 34 hospitalsCO$695Nebraska: median $357 across 33 hospitalsNE$357Missouri: median $415 across 30 hospitalsMO$415Kentucky: median $374 across 21 hospitalsKY$374West Virginia: median $406 across 23 hospitalsWV$406Virginia: median $639 across 44 hospitalsVA$639Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $245 across 19 hospitalsAZ$245New Mexico: median $463 across 16 hospitalsNM$463Kansas: median $622 across 38 hospitalsKS$622Arkansas: median $324 across 17 hospitalsAR$324Tennessee: median $279 across 28 hospitalsTN$279North Carolina: median $340 across 30 hospitalsNC$340South Carolina: median $740 across 42 hospitalsSC$740Oklahoma: median $387 across 38 hospitalsOK$387Louisiana: median $237 across 30 hospitalsLA$237Mississippi: median $223 across 31 hospitalsMS$223Alabama: median $269 across 18 hospitalsAL$269Georgia: median $525 across 56 hospitalsGA$525Hawaii: median $954 across 10 hospitalsHI$954Texas: median $607 across 126 hospitalsTX$607Florida: median $974 across 57 hospitalsFL$974
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $543. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID15$1,117+106%$286 – $1,117
New Jersey NJ35$1,065+96%$443 – $4,881
Florida FL57$974+79%$329 – $2,067
Hawaii HI10$954+76%$279 – $1,290
Connecticut CT10$945+74%$251 – $1,334
Indiana IN36$793+46%$345 – $1,038
Massachusetts MA26$790+45%$303 – $3,704
South Dakota SD15$786+45%$424 – $968
Pennsylvania PA58$751+38%$148 – $2,932
South Carolina SC42$740+36%$441 – $939
Wisconsin WI46$738+36%$503 – $986
California CA108$722+33%$520 – $1,313
Colorado CO34$695+28%$362 – $1,019
Alaska AK12$692+27%$369 – $1,279
Virginia VA44$639+18%$380 – $1,019
Ohio OH64$628+16%$374 – $779
Kansas KS38$622+15%$336 – $1,266
Washington WA45$618+14%$398 – $977
Texas TX126$607+12%$381 – $759
Illinois IL75$590+9%$372 – $1,004
New York NY64$572+5%$415 – $1,129
Georgia GA56$525−3%$340 – $741
Minnesota MN26$467−14%$328 – $683
New Mexico NM16$463−15%$320 – $874
Iowa IA46$418−23%$277 – $730
Missouri MO30$415−24%$235 – $788
North Dakota ND18$412−24%$274 – $665
West Virginia WV23$406−25%$179 – $593
Oregon OR38$404−26%$280 – $824
Michigan MI35$393−28%$268 – $837
Nevada NV10$392−28%$270 – $523
Oklahoma OK38$387−29%$225 – $1,000
Kentucky KY21$374−31%$289 – $834
Utah UT26$369−32%$328 – $545
Nebraska NE33$357−34%$276 – $484
Maine ME15$340−37%$113 – $478
North Carolina NC30$340−37%$305 – $443
Arkansas AR17$324−40%$214 – $645
Montana MT16$320−41%$228 – $676
Tennessee TN28$279−49%$164 – $319
Alabama AL18$269−50%$178 – $362
Arizona AZ19$245−55%$206 – $784
Louisiana LA30$237−56%$165 – $406
New Hampshire NH10$226−58%$121 – $341
Mississippi MS31$223−59%$114 – $276
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $543.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,137$566$313 – $1,000
Children’s21$541$314 – $849
Critical access457$448$261 – $874
Ownership
For-profit162$525$270 – $1,184
Government316$467$275 – $837
Non-profit1,137$565$302 – $986
System affiliation
Part of a system1,285$565$302 – $986
Independent332$460$270 – $859

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$953
Median cash price$543
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $586 and the average of the middle 60% is $603; most fall between $301 and $1,019.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,199 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
$226$340$586$932$1,461

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($226 vs $1,461).

Of the 1,303 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,199 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,617 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,743 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,617
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
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 — excluded71
Hospitals that filed this code1,743

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 September 4, 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 20.1cm-30.0 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, 20.1 to 30 cm (CPT 12017) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12017-simple-stitching-of-face-or-lip-wound-20-1-to-30-cm