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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Packing of a surgical wound that reopened

CPT 12021the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a surgical wound whose surface edges have separated, leaving it open and filling it with packing material rather than stitching it closed.

Hospitals typically charge $469 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,635 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $508. Most fall between $256 and $909 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,635
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,635 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
$188$292$469$798$1,448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($188 vs $1,448).

How the prices are spread

$138 – $181: 77 hospitals$138$181 – $238: 136 hospitals$238 – $312: 174 hospitals$238$312 – $410: 206 hospitals$410 – $539: 284 hospitals$410$539 – $709: 161 hospitals$709 – $932: 195 hospitals$709$932 – $1,224: 99 hospitals$1,224 – $1,609: 90 hospitals$1,224$1,609 – $2,115: 55 hospitals$1,609median $469price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,477 of 1,635 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$138$18177
$181$238136
$238$312174
$312$410206
$410$539284
$539$709161
$709$932195
$932$1,22499
$1,224$1,60990
$1,609$2,11555

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$469
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $469.

Alaska: median $677 across 11 hospitalsAK$677Maine: median $292 across 13 hospitalsME$292Vermont: median $308 across 10 hospitalsVT$308New Hampshire: median $233 across 12 hospitalsNH$233Washington: median $431 across 46 hospitalsWA$431Idaho: median $606 across 13 hospitalsID$606Montana: median $263 across 10 hospitalsMT$263North Dakota: median $546 across 18 hospitalsND$546Minnesota: median $441 across 55 hospitalsMN$441Illinois: median $512 across 73 hospitalsIL$512Wisconsin: median $469 across 62 hospitalsWI$469Michigan: median $287 across 49 hospitalsMI$287New York: median $507 across 68 hospitalsNY$507Massachusetts: median $629 across 29 hospitalsMA$629Oregon: median $431 across 36 hospitalsOR$431Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $310 across 48 hospitalsIA$310Indiana: median $262 across 37 hospitalsIN$262Ohio: median $472 across 62 hospitalsOH$472Pennsylvania: median $508 across 76 hospitalsPA$508New Jersey: median $1,719 across 38 hospitalsNJ$1,719Connecticut: median $559 across 12 hospitalsCT$559Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $723 across 117 hospitalsCA$723Utah: median $507 across 22 hospitalsUT$507Colorado: median $533 across 31 hospitalsCO$533Nebraska: median $358 across 37 hospitalsNE$358Missouri: median $409 across 36 hospitalsMO$409Kentucky: median $297 across 20 hospitalsKY$297West Virginia: median $390 across 30 hospitalsWV$390Virginia: median $738 across 35 hospitalsVA$738Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $430 across 10 hospitalsAZ$430New Mexico: median $324 across 10 hospitalsNM$324Kansas: median $281 across 39 hospitalsKS$281Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $222 across 22 hospitalsTN$222North Carolina: median $373 across 32 hospitalsNC$373South Carolina: median $746 across 25 hospitalsSC$746Oklahoma: median $338 across 43 hospitalsOK$338Louisiana: median $217 across 38 hospitalsLA$217Mississippi: median $199 across 18 hospitalsMS$199Alabama: median $616 across 21 hospitalsAL$616Georgia: median $1,233 across 56 hospitalsGA$1,233Hawaii: median $954 across 10 hospitalsHI$954Texas: median $526 across 105 hospitalsTX$526Florida: median $836 across 56 hospitalsFL$836
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $469. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ38$1,719+266%$471 – $5,339
Georgia GA56$1,233+163%$353 – $2,115
Hawaii HI10$954+103%$389 – $1,118
Florida FL56$836+78%$445 – $1,124
South Carolina SC25$746+59%$631 – $890
Virginia VA35$738+57%$441 – $849
California CA117$723+54%$402 – $2,362
Alaska AK11$677+44%$434 – $1,145
Massachusetts MA29$629+34%$476 – $1,411
Alabama AL21$616+31%$229 – $1,167
Idaho ID13$606+29%$302 – $1,117
Connecticut CT12$559+19%$355 – $783
North Dakota ND18$546+16%$410 – $769
Colorado CO31$533+13%$291 – $1,087
Texas TX105$526+12%$340 – $901
Illinois IL73$512+9%$292 – $1,106
Pennsylvania PA76$508+8%$238 – $1,273
New York NY68$507+8%$233 – $1,107
Utah UT22$507+8%$447 – $563
Ohio OH62$472+1%$267 – $779
Wisconsin WI62$4690%$295 – $754
Minnesota MN55$441−6%$293 – $582
Oregon OR36$431−8%$322 – $542
Washington WA46$431−8%$256 – $862
Arizona AZ10$430−8%$206 – $499
Missouri MO36$409−13%$277 – $769
West Virginia WV30$390−17%$277 – $607
North Carolina NC32$373−21%$295 – $443
Nebraska NE37$358−24%$211 – $461
Oklahoma OK43$338−28%$166 – $810
New Mexico NM10$324−31%$257 – $448
Iowa IA48$310−34%$195 – $621
Vermont VT10$308−34%$191 – $624
Kentucky KY20$297−37%$199 – $437
Maine ME13$292−38%$157 – $508
Michigan MI49$287−39%$136 – $559
Kansas KS39$281−40%$203 – $388
Montana MT10$263−44%$78 – $442
Indiana IN37$262−44%$199 – $402
New Hampshire NH12$233−50%$196 – $385
Tennessee TN22$222−53%$181 – $293
Louisiana LA38$217−54%$142 – $500
Mississippi MS18$199−58%$138 – $298
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $469.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,173$524$279 – $1,117
Children’s23$525$209 – $1,122
Critical access437$355$214 – $581
Ownership
For-profit131$616$287 – $1,233
Government324$378$230 – $811
Non-profit1,178$473$257 – $916
System affiliation
Part of a system1,309$491$277 – $982
Independent326$376$217 – $713

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$779
Median cash price$469
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

1,187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $508 and the average of the middle 60% is $563; most fall between $277 and $1,076.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,187 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
$199$310$508$901$1,465

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($199 vs $1,465).

Of the 1,276 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,187 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,635 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 1,768 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,635
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded72
Hospitals that filed this code1,768

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 W Packing.

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, “Packing of a surgical wound that reopened (CPT 12021) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12021-packing-of-a-surgical-wound-that-reopened