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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of scalp, trunk or limb wound, 2.6 to 7.5 cm

CPT 12032the 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 totaling 2.6 to 7.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $543 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,805 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $577. Most fall between $307 and $999 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,805
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 2,805 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$348$543$868$1,580

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $1,580).

How the prices are spread

$157 – $214: 144 hospitals$157$214 – $292: 220 hospitals$292 – $398: 337 hospitals$292$398 – $543: 562 hospitals$543 – $741: 489 hospitals$543$741 – $1,011: 361 hospitals$1,011 – $1,378: 225 hospitals$1,011$1,378 – $1,880: 91 hospitals$1,880 – $2,564: 72 hospitals$1,880$2,564 – $3,497: 24 hospitals$2,564median $543price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,525 of 2,805 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$157$214144
$214$292220
$292$398337
$398$543562
$543$741489
$741$1,011361
$1,011$1,378225
$1,378$1,88091
$1,880$2,56472
$2,564$3,49724

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 $790 across 16 hospitalsAK$790Maine: median $324 across 22 hospitalsME$324Vermont: median $337 across 12 hospitalsVT$337New Hampshire: median $325 across 20 hospitalsNH$325Washington: median $580 across 77 hospitalsWA$580Idaho: median $403 across 21 hospitalsID$403Montana: median $408 across 33 hospitalsMT$408North Dakota: median $574 across 29 hospitalsND$574Minnesota: median $489 across 95 hospitalsMN$489Illinois: median $546 across 122 hospitalsIL$546Wisconsin: median $537 across 85 hospitalsWI$537Michigan: median $404 across 84 hospitalsMI$404New York: median $680 across 112 hospitalsNY$680Massachusetts: median $692 across 49 hospitalsMA$692Oregon: median $553 across 52 hospitalsOR$553Nevada: median $594 across 17 hospitalsNV$594Wyoming: median $283 across 14 hospitalsWY$283South Dakota: median $658 across 32 hospitalsSD$658Iowa: median $419 across 91 hospitalsIA$419Indiana: median $533 across 64 hospitalsIN$533Ohio: median $735 across 105 hospitalsOH$735Pennsylvania: median $612 across 126 hospitalsPA$612New Jersey: median $1,125 across 50 hospitalsNJ$1,125Connecticut: median $841 across 21 hospitalsCT$841Rhode Island: median $454 across 10 hospitalsRI$454California: median $1,082 across 140 hospitalsCA$1,082Utah: median $694 across 30 hospitalsUT$694Colorado: median $714 across 57 hospitalsCO$714Nebraska: median $576 across 72 hospitalsNE$576Missouri: median $510 across 69 hospitalsMO$510Kentucky: median $301 across 49 hospitalsKY$301West Virginia: median $468 across 38 hospitalsWV$468Virginia: median $557 across 56 hospitalsVA$557Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $437 across 33 hospitalsAZ$437New Mexico: median $404 across 28 hospitalsNM$404Kansas: median $395 across 86 hospitalsKS$395Arkansas: median $452 across 37 hospitalsAR$452Tennessee: median $308 across 51 hospitalsTN$308North Carolina: median $404 across 57 hospitalsNC$404South Carolina: median $712 across 45 hospitalsSC$712Oklahoma: median $403 across 66 hospitalsOK$403Louisiana: median $300 across 50 hospitalsLA$300Mississippi: median $310 across 52 hospitalsMS$310Alabama: median $411 across 31 hospitalsAL$411Georgia: median $482 across 92 hospitalsGA$482Hawaii: median $718 across 16 hospitalsHI$718Texas: median $563 across 177 hospitalsTX$563Florida: median $1,024 across 103 hospitalsFL$1,024
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
New Jersey NJ50$1,125+107%$471 – $3,986
California CA140$1,082+99%$444 – $1,509
Florida FL103$1,024+89%$368 – $2,830
Connecticut CT21$841+55%$471 – $1,334
Alaska AK16$790+45%$473 – $1,342
Ohio OH105$735+35%$358 – $944
Hawaii HI16$718+32%$527 – $1,072
Colorado CO57$714+32%$391 – $795
South Carolina SC45$712+31%$361 – $1,188
Utah UT30$694+28%$556 – $730
Massachusetts MA49$692+27%$459 – $1,406
New York NY112$680+25%$296 – $1,580
South Dakota SD32$658+21%$447 – $859
Pennsylvania PA126$612+13%$333 – $1,160
Nevada NV17$594+9%$442 – $910
Washington WA77$580+7%$449 – $950
Nebraska NE72$576+6%$400 – $713
North Dakota ND29$574+6%$405 – $733
Texas TX177$563+4%$406 – $1,166
Virginia VA56$557+3%$146 – $652
Oregon OR52$553+2%$324 – $776
Illinois IL122$546+1%$319 – $966
Wisconsin WI85$537−1%$337 – $711
Indiana IN64$533−2%$298 – $2,179
Missouri MO69$510−6%$284 – $1,759
Minnesota MN95$489−10%$327 – $755
Georgia GA92$482−11%$344 – $907
West Virginia WV38$468−14%$364 – $614
Rhode Island RI10$454−16%$385 – $907
Arkansas AR37$452−17%$227 – $650
Arizona AZ33$437−20%$342 – $1,265
Iowa IA91$419−23%$241 – $684
Alabama AL31$411−24%$266 – $1,053
Montana MT33$408−25%$274 – $652
North Carolina NC57$404−26%$312 – $593
New Mexico NM28$404−26%$344 – $1,031
Michigan MI84$404−26%$216 – $665
Idaho ID21$403−26%$277 – $1,117
Oklahoma OK66$403−26%$224 – $815
Kansas KS86$395−27%$255 – $675
Vermont VT12$337−38%$242 – $1,271
New Hampshire NH20$325−40%$164 – $561
Maine ME22$324−40%$266 – $482
Mississippi MS52$310−43%$187 – $541
Tennessee TN51$308−43%$129 – $656
Kentucky KY49$301−45%$238 – $805
Louisiana LA50$300−45%$176 – $559
Wyoming WY14$283−48%$237 – $610
Delaware DE6not 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 $543.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,870$590$328 – $1,116
Children’s59$871$391 – $1,900
Critical access870$464$264 – $717
Ownership
For-profit301$653$343 – $2,030
Government576$460$275 – $719
Non-profit1,922$564$311 – $1,017
System affiliation
Part of a system2,218$568$327 – $1,083
Independent587$445$259 – $735

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$886
Median cash price$543
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

2,027 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $567 and the average of the middle 60% is $601; most fall between $323 and $989.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,027 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
$231$375$567$876$1,330

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($231 vs $1,330).

Of the 2,177 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,027 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 97 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,805 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (71%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,009 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,805
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 — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code3,009

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 2.6-7.5 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, 2.6 to 7.5 cm (CPT 12032) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12032-layered-repair-of-scalp-trunk-or-limb-wound-2-6-to-7-5-cm