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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Stitching closed a surgical wound that reopened

CPT 12020the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a surgical wound whose surface edges have separated, closing the shallow wound again with simple stitches or staples.

Hospitals typically charge $702 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,470 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $751. Most fall between $355 and $1,449 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,470
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 2,470 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
$246$410$702$1,240$2,190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($246 vs $2,190).

How the prices are spread

$190 – $253: 133 hospitals$190$253 – $336: 200 hospitals$336 – $448: 260 hospitals$336$448 – $597: 318 hospitals$597 – $796: 375 hospitals$597$796 – $1,060: 303 hospitals$1,060 – $1,412: 246 hospitals$1,060$1,412 – $1,881: 204 hospitals$1,881 – $2,506: 136 hospitals$1,881$2,506 – $3,339: 49 hospitals$2,506median $702price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,224 of 2,470 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$190$253133
$253$336200
$336$448260
$448$597318
$597$796375
$796$1,060303
$1,060$1,412246
$1,412$1,881204
$1,881$2,506136
$2,506$3,33949

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$702
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.93×

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 $702.

Alaska: median $680 across 14 hospitalsAK$680Maine: median $418 across 22 hospitalsME$418Vermont: median $448 across 11 hospitalsVT$448New Hampshire: median $408 across 18 hospitalsNH$408Washington: median $666 across 65 hospitalsWA$666Idaho: median $482 across 21 hospitalsID$482Montana: median $379 across 25 hospitalsMT$379North Dakota: median $802 across 24 hospitalsND$802Minnesota: median $645 across 82 hospitalsMN$645Illinois: median $718 across 105 hospitalsIL$718Wisconsin: median $663 across 83 hospitalsWI$663Michigan: median $562 across 82 hospitalsMI$562New York: median $877 across 92 hospitalsNY$877Massachusetts: median $825 across 43 hospitalsMA$825Oregon: median $625 across 51 hospitalsOR$625Nevada: median $803 across 16 hospitalsNV$803Wyoming: median $584 across 13 hospitalsWY$584South Dakota: median $830 across 22 hospitalsSD$830Iowa: median $469 across 66 hospitalsIA$469Indiana: median $425 across 47 hospitalsIN$425Ohio: median $728 across 122 hospitalsOH$728Pennsylvania: median $884 across 116 hospitalsPA$884New Jersey: median $857 across 53 hospitalsNJ$857Connecticut: median $977 across 20 hospitalsCT$977Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,534 across 140 hospitalsCA$1,534Utah: median $693 across 30 hospitalsUT$693Colorado: median $768 across 46 hospitalsCO$768Nebraska: median $518 across 59 hospitalsNE$518Missouri: median $552 across 57 hospitalsMO$552Kentucky: median $605 across 39 hospitalsKY$605West Virginia: median $697 across 35 hospitalsWV$697Virginia: median $661 across 54 hospitalsVA$661Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $463 across 19 hospitalsAZ$463New Mexico: median $657 across 24 hospitalsNM$657Kansas: median $355 across 65 hospitalsKS$355Arkansas: median $563 across 29 hospitalsAR$563Tennessee: median $364 across 49 hospitalsTN$364North Carolina: median $421 across 47 hospitalsNC$421South Carolina: median $1,074 across 41 hospitalsSC$1,074Oklahoma: median $531 across 58 hospitalsOK$531Louisiana: median $455 across 43 hospitalsLA$455Mississippi: median $340 across 41 hospitalsMS$340Alabama: median $650 across 29 hospitalsAL$650Georgia: median $1,580 across 78 hospitalsGA$1,580Hawaii: median $1,327 across 13 hospitalsHI$1,327Texas: median $738 across 159 hospitalsTX$738Florida: median $1,180 across 84 hospitalsFL$1,180
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $702. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA78$1,580+125%$464 – $3,564
California CA140$1,534+119%$656 – $2,498
Hawaii HI13$1,327+89%$357 – $2,072
Florida FL84$1,180+68%$498 – $2,144
South Carolina SC41$1,074+53%$739 – $1,136
Connecticut CT20$977+39%$498 – $1,574
Pennsylvania PA116$884+26%$422 – $2,022
New York NY92$877+25%$361 – $1,611
New Jersey NJ53$857+22%$678 – $4,350
South Dakota SD22$830+18%$468 – $1,120
Massachusetts MA43$825+18%$620 – $1,406
Nevada NV16$803+14%$440 – $1,750
North Dakota ND24$802+14%$412 – $1,093
Colorado CO46$768+9%$426 – $1,297
Texas TX159$738+5%$388 – $1,665
Ohio OH122$728+4%$412 – $1,193
Illinois IL105$718+2%$335 – $1,480
West Virginia WV35$697−1%$306 – $930
Utah UT30$693−1%$507 – $1,119
Alaska AK14$680−3%$555 – $1,549
Washington WA65$666−5%$348 – $1,427
Wisconsin WI83$663−6%$511 – $896
Virginia VA54$661−6%$290 – $1,075
New Mexico NM24$657−6%$239 – $2,159
Alabama AL29$650−7%$412 – $1,537
Minnesota MN82$645−8%$405 – $1,142
Oregon OR51$625−11%$442 – $1,093
Kentucky KY39$605−14%$299 – $861
Wyoming WY13$584−17%$243 – $651
Arkansas AR29$563−20%$355 – $920
Michigan MI82$562−20%$265 – $1,170
Missouri MO57$552−21%$416 – $1,479
Oklahoma OK58$531−24%$226 – $1,270
Nebraska NE59$518−26%$325 – $762
Idaho ID21$482−31%$346 – $1,686
Iowa IA66$469−33%$295 – $658
Arizona AZ19$463−34%$328 – $1,409
Louisiana LA43$455−35%$236 – $918
Vermont VT11$448−36%$154 – $946
Indiana IN47$425−39%$220 – $790
North Carolina NC47$421−40%$267 – $821
Maine ME22$418−40%$278 – $867
New Hampshire NH18$408−42%$275 – $758
Montana MT25$379−46%$217 – $728
Tennessee TN49$364−48%$246 – $959
Kansas KS65$355−49%$240 – $696
Mississippi MS41$340−52%$235 – $823
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $702.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,732$782$395 – $1,580
Children’s43$870$472 – $2,059
Critical access689$517$285 – $877
Ownership
For-profit259$945$460 – $2,159
Government470$518$313 – $1,106
Non-profit1,735$728$363 – $1,444
System affiliation
Part of a system1,980$747$377 – $1,534
Independent490$546$304 – $1,043

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,159
Median cash price$702
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

1,807 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $751 and the average of the middle 60% is $804; most fall between $377 and $1,512.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,807 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
$267$421$751$1,316$2,164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($267 vs $2,164).

Of the 1,939 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,807 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,470 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,643 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,470
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here74
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded93
Hospitals that filed this code2,643

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 PR Closure Superf Wnd Dehis Simple.

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, “Stitching closed a surgical wound that reopened (CPT 12020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12020-stitching-closed-a-surgical-wound-that-reopened