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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of scalp, trunk or limb wound, 7.6 to 12.5 cm

CPT 12034the 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 7.6 to 12.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $577 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,672 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $618. Most fall between $329 and $1,070 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,672
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 2,672 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
$237$377$577$923$1,699

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($237 vs $1,699).

How the prices are spread

$180 – $240: 146 hospitals$180$240 – $321: 217 hospitals$321 – $429: 325 hospitals$321$429 – $573: 499 hospitals$573 – $765: 402 hospitals$573$765 – $1,022: 377 hospitals$1,022 – $1,365: 222 hospitals$1,022$1,365 – $1,823: 97 hospitals$1,823 – $2,435: 86 hospitals$1,823$2,435 – $3,252: 35 hospitals$2,435median $577price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,406 of 2,672 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$180$240146
$240$321217
$321$429325
$429$573499
$573$765402
$765$1,022377
$1,022$1,365222
$1,365$1,82397
$1,823$2,43586
$2,435$3,25235

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$577
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

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 $577.

Alaska: median $892 across 15 hospitalsAK$892Maine: median $336 across 22 hospitalsME$336Vermont: median $362 across 12 hospitalsVT$362New Hampshire: median $277 across 20 hospitalsNH$277Washington: median $673 across 71 hospitalsWA$673Idaho: median $452 across 21 hospitalsID$452Montana: median $455 across 34 hospitalsMT$455North Dakota: median $630 across 27 hospitalsND$630Minnesota: median $547 across 92 hospitalsMN$547Illinois: median $703 across 118 hospitalsIL$703Wisconsin: median $551 across 83 hospitalsWI$551Michigan: median $482 across 77 hospitalsMI$482New York: median $642 across 110 hospitalsNY$642Massachusetts: median $838 across 49 hospitalsMA$838Oregon: median $618 across 51 hospitalsOR$618Nevada: median $500 across 15 hospitalsNV$500Wyoming: median $339 across 14 hospitalsWY$339South Dakota: median $706 across 33 hospitalsSD$706Iowa: median $447 across 80 hospitalsIA$447Indiana: median $581 across 59 hospitalsIN$581Ohio: median $779 across 89 hospitalsOH$779Pennsylvania: median $817 across 118 hospitalsPA$817New Jersey: median $1,061 across 52 hospitalsNJ$1,061Connecticut: median $846 across 19 hospitalsCT$846Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,092 across 139 hospitalsCA$1,092Utah: median $694 across 28 hospitalsUT$694Colorado: median $635 across 51 hospitalsCO$635Nebraska: median $607 across 69 hospitalsNE$607Missouri: median $450 across 57 hospitalsMO$450Kentucky: median $332 across 45 hospitalsKY$332West Virginia: median $553 across 38 hospitalsWV$553Virginia: median $584 across 55 hospitalsVA$584Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $488 across 31 hospitalsAZ$488New Mexico: median $593 across 27 hospitalsNM$593Kansas: median $427 across 78 hospitalsKS$427Arkansas: median $533 across 36 hospitalsAR$533Tennessee: median $349 across 50 hospitalsTN$349North Carolina: median $410 across 54 hospitalsNC$410South Carolina: median $748 across 45 hospitalsSC$748Oklahoma: median $499 across 64 hospitalsOK$499Louisiana: median $328 across 47 hospitalsLA$328Mississippi: median $279 across 50 hospitalsMS$279Alabama: median $381 across 29 hospitalsAL$381Georgia: median $647 across 90 hospitalsGA$647Hawaii: median $942 across 16 hospitalsHI$942Texas: median $651 across 176 hospitalsTX$651Florida: median $995 across 100 hospitalsFL$995
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $577. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA139$1,092+89%$487 – $1,412
New Jersey NJ52$1,061+84%$443 – $3,986
Florida FL100$995+73%$368 – $2,328
Hawaii HI16$942+63%$548 – $1,098
Alaska AK15$892+55%$430 – $1,686
Connecticut CT19$846+47%$538 – $1,129
Massachusetts MA49$838+45%$515 – $1,406
Pennsylvania PA118$817+42%$395 – $2,199
Ohio OH89$779+35%$373 – $876
South Carolina SC45$748+30%$294 – $1,134
South Dakota SD33$706+22%$532 – $928
Illinois IL118$703+22%$347 – $1,056
Utah UT28$694+20%$447 – $730
Washington WA71$673+17%$473 – $1,035
Texas TX176$651+13%$423 – $1,045
Georgia GA90$647+12%$368 – $899
New York NY110$642+11%$344 – $1,755
Colorado CO51$635+10%$399 – $964
North Dakota ND27$630+9%$410 – $698
Oregon OR51$618+7%$452 – $1,045
Nebraska NE69$607+5%$454 – $791
New Mexico NM27$593+3%$358 – $1,814
Virginia VA55$584+1%$297 – $855
Indiana IN59$581+1%$320 – $3,554
West Virginia WV38$553−4%$379 – $799
Wisconsin WI83$551−4%$393 – $813
Minnesota MN92$547−5%$367 – $818
Arkansas AR36$533−8%$282 – $1,385
Nevada NV15$500−13%$442 – $890
Oklahoma OK64$499−13%$257 – $899
Arizona AZ31$488−15%$452 – $1,278
Michigan MI77$482−16%$225 – $878
Montana MT34$455−21%$256 – $573
Idaho ID21$452−22%$370 – $1,117
Missouri MO57$450−22%$268 – $1,105
Iowa IA80$447−22%$249 – $704
Kansas KS78$427−26%$300 – $810
North Carolina NC54$410−29%$310 – $523
Alabama AL29$381−34%$198 – $800
Vermont VT12$362−37%$218 – $1,429
Tennessee TN50$349−39%$238 – $649
Wyoming WY14$339−41%$235 – $802
Maine ME22$336−42%$278 – $482
Kentucky KY45$332−43%$314 – $650
Louisiana LA47$328−43%$187 – $620
Mississippi MS50$279−52%$172 – $550
New Hampshire NH20$277−52%$187 – $617
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $577.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,776$635$348 – $1,200
Children’s55$864$512 – $1,997
Critical access836$509$292 – $792
Ownership
For-profit284$647$379 – $2,072
Government553$493$298 – $815
Non-profit1,830$607$333 – $1,092
System affiliation
Part of a system2,112$614$348 – $1,109
Independent560$475$273 – $837

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$950
Median cash price$577
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

1,932 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $619 and the average of the middle 60% is $652; most fall between $337 and $1,092.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,932 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
$256$393$619$971$1,588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($256 vs $1,588).

Of the 2,078 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,932 gave a usable cash price; 52 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

2,672 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,869 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,672
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here88
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,869

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 7.6-12.5 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, 7.6 to 12.5 cm (CPT 12034) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12034-layered-repair-of-scalp-trunk-or-limb-wound-7-6-to-12-5-cm