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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of scalp, trunk or limb wound, up to 2.5 cm

CPT 12031the billing code this page is about

Multi-layer stitch repair, including the tissue under the skin, of a cut on the scalp, underarm, trunk, arm or leg (not hands or feet), with repaired length up to 2.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $468 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,738 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $499. Most fall between $257 and $885 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,738
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 2,738 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
$176$298$468$770$1,400

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $1,400).

How the prices are spread

$129 – $177: 145 hospitals$129$177 – $242: 226 hospitals$242 – $332: 301 hospitals$242$332 – $454: 514 hospitals$454 – $621: 490 hospitals$454$621 – $850: 337 hospitals$850 – $1,164: 254 hospitals$850$1,164 – $1,593: 108 hospitals$1,593 – $2,180: 65 hospitals$1,593$2,180 – $2,984: 31 hospitals$2,180median $468price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,471 of 2,738 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$129$177145
$177$242226
$242$332301
$332$454514
$454$621490
$621$850337
$850$1,164254
$1,164$1,593108
$1,593$2,18065
$2,180$2,98431

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$468
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 $468.

Alaska: median $734 across 14 hospitalsAK$734Maine: median $309 across 22 hospitalsME$309Vermont: median $265 across 12 hospitalsVT$265New Hampshire: median $216 across 20 hospitalsNH$216Washington: median $541 across 76 hospitalsWA$541Idaho: median $356 across 20 hospitalsID$356Montana: median $362 across 31 hospitalsMT$362North Dakota: median $490 across 28 hospitalsND$490Minnesota: median $434 across 94 hospitalsMN$434Illinois: median $488 across 120 hospitalsIL$488Wisconsin: median $420 across 83 hospitalsWI$420Michigan: median $319 across 82 hospitalsMI$319New York: median $583 across 111 hospitalsNY$583Massachusetts: median $616 across 50 hospitalsMA$616Oregon: median $475 across 51 hospitalsOR$475Nevada: median $442 across 18 hospitalsNV$442Wyoming: median $338 across 14 hospitalsWY$338South Dakota: median $644 across 31 hospitalsSD$644Iowa: median $330 across 88 hospitalsIA$330Indiana: median $427 across 62 hospitalsIN$427Ohio: median $477 across 110 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $483 across 125 hospitalsPA$483New Jersey: median $800 across 49 hospitalsNJ$800Connecticut: median $736 across 17 hospitalsCT$736Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $969 across 147 hospitalsCA$969Utah: median $657 across 28 hospitalsUT$657Colorado: median $469 across 49 hospitalsCO$469Nebraska: median $458 across 68 hospitalsNE$458Missouri: median $362 across 56 hospitalsMO$362Kentucky: median $301 across 48 hospitalsKY$301West Virginia: median $411 across 37 hospitalsWV$411Virginia: median $516 across 54 hospitalsVA$516Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $360 across 33 hospitalsAZ$360New Mexico: median $436 across 26 hospitalsNM$436Kansas: median $326 across 82 hospitalsKS$326Arkansas: median $322 across 36 hospitalsAR$322Tennessee: median $220 across 46 hospitalsTN$220North Carolina: median $397 across 56 hospitalsNC$397South Carolina: median $616 across 45 hospitalsSC$616Oklahoma: median $305 across 68 hospitalsOK$305Louisiana: median $300 across 46 hospitalsLA$300Mississippi: median $235 across 47 hospitalsMS$235Alabama: median $360 across 31 hospitalsAL$360Georgia: median $436 across 89 hospitalsGA$436Hawaii: median $661 across 17 hospitalsHI$661Texas: median $532 across 182 hospitalsTX$532Florida: median $969 across 100 hospitalsFL$969
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $468. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL100$969+107%$369 – $4,244
California CA147$969+107%$433 – $1,375
New Jersey NJ49$800+71%$471 – $4,627
Connecticut CT17$736+57%$323 – $1,298
Alaska AK14$734+57%$429 – $1,208
Hawaii HI17$661+41%$471 – $1,059
Utah UT28$657+40%$453 – $730
South Dakota SD31$644+38%$431 – $737
Massachusetts MA50$616+32%$353 – $1,169
South Carolina SC45$616+31%$260 – $1,029
New York NY111$583+25%$295 – $1,458
Washington WA76$541+16%$362 – $822
Texas TX182$532+14%$380 – $876
Virginia VA54$516+10%$146 – $625
North Dakota ND28$490+5%$395 – $717
Illinois IL120$488+4%$264 – $940
Pennsylvania PA125$483+3%$257 – $826
Ohio OH110$477+2%$335 – $794
Oregon OR51$475+1%$353 – $746
Colorado CO49$4690%$288 – $660
Nebraska NE68$458−2%$306 – $596
Nevada NV18$442−6%$338 – $978
Georgia GA89$436−7%$276 – $806
New Mexico NM26$436−7%$316 – $692
Minnesota MN94$434−7%$319 – $661
Indiana IN62$427−9%$268 – $1,593
Wisconsin WI83$420−10%$341 – $642
West Virginia WV37$411−12%$270 – $572
North Carolina NC56$397−15%$292 – $523
Missouri MO56$362−23%$225 – $841
Montana MT31$362−23%$220 – $446
Arizona AZ33$360−23%$306 – $2,397
Alabama AL31$360−23%$128 – $791
Idaho ID20$356−24%$274 – $1,117
Wyoming WY14$338−28%$169 – $575
Iowa IA88$330−29%$240 – $603
Kansas KS82$326−30%$224 – $461
Arkansas AR36$322−31%$216 – $533
Michigan MI82$319−32%$162 – $607
Maine ME22$309−34%$223 – $427
Oklahoma OK68$305−35%$200 – $712
Kentucky KY48$301−36%$247 – $663
Louisiana LA46$300−36%$176 – $473
Vermont VT12$265−43%$124 – $902
Mississippi MS47$235−50%$145 – $531
Tennessee TN46$220−53%$100 – $488
New Hampshire NH20$216−54%$126 – $429
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $468.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,830$518$285 – $1,029
Children’s59$707$380 – $1,766
Critical access842$385$223 – $607
Ownership
For-profit287$554$301 – $1,837
Government563$397$228 – $650
Non-profit1,881$480$262 – $902
System affiliation
Part of a system2,170$496$277 – $943
Independent568$376$215 – $659

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$761
Median cash price$468
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

1,996 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $485 and the average of the middle 60% is $522; most fall between $277 and $892.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,996 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
$196$315$485$783$1,227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($196 vs $1,227).

Of the 2,143 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,996 gave a usable cash price; 53 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 94 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,738 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,940 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,738
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here90
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded104
Hospitals that filed this code2,940

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 Repair Intermediate S/a/T/E 2.5 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, “Layered repair of scalp, trunk or limb wound, up to 2.5 cm (CPT 12031) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12031-layered-repair-of-scalp-trunk-or-limb-wound-up-to-2-5-cm