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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of scalp, trunk or limb wound, 20.1 to 30 cm

CPT 12036the 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 20.1 to 30 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $837 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,125 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $884. Most fall between $480 and $1,510 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,125
States
49
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 2,125 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
$324$538$837$1,311$2,096

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($324 vs $2,096).

How the prices are spread

$233 – $306: 65 hospitals$233$306 – $401: 145 hospitals$401 – $525: 186 hospitals$401$525 – $689: 311 hospitals$689 – $903: 345 hospitals$689$903 – $1,183: 296 hospitals$1,183 – $1,551: 280 hospitals$1,183$1,551 – $2,034: 155 hospitals$2,034 – $2,666: 90 hospitals$2,034$2,666 – $3,494: 40 hospitals$2,666median $837price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,913 of 2,125 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$233$30665
$306$401145
$401$525186
$525$689311
$689$903345
$903$1,183296
$1,183$1,551280
$1,551$2,034155
$2,034$2,66690
$2,666$3,49440

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$837
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $837.

Alaska: median $876 across 13 hospitalsAK$876Maine: median $527 across 18 hospitalsME$527Vermont: median $657 across 10 hospitalsVT$657New Hampshire: median $500 across 17 hospitalsNH$500Washington: median $1,157 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,157Idaho: median $521 across 20 hospitalsID$521Montana: median $631 across 26 hospitalsMT$631North Dakota: median $730 across 22 hospitalsND$730Minnesota: median $822 across 69 hospitalsMN$822Illinois: median $865 across 96 hospitalsIL$865Wisconsin: median $746 across 72 hospitalsWI$746Michigan: median $733 across 64 hospitalsMI$733New York: median $1,025 across 85 hospitalsNY$1,025Massachusetts: median $891 across 35 hospitalsMA$891Oregon: median $1,047 across 48 hospitalsOR$1,047Nevada: median $801 across 12 hospitalsNV$801Wyoming: median $757 across 13 hospitalsWY$757South Dakota: median $1,121 across 20 hospitalsSD$1,121Iowa: median $580 across 60 hospitalsIA$580Indiana: median $554 across 42 hospitalsIN$554Ohio: median $735 across 75 hospitalsOH$735Pennsylvania: median $975 across 88 hospitalsPA$975New Jersey: median $1,705 across 41 hospitalsNJ$1,705Connecticut: median $942 across 16 hospitalsCT$942Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,414 across 123 hospitalsCA$1,414Utah: median $563 across 27 hospitalsUT$563Colorado: median $944 across 42 hospitalsCO$944Nebraska: median $866 across 44 hospitalsNE$866Missouri: median $681 across 43 hospitalsMO$681Kentucky: median $748 across 26 hospitalsKY$748West Virginia: median $552 across 28 hospitalsWV$552Virginia: median $947 across 53 hospitalsVA$947Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,466 across 27 hospitalsAZ$1,466New Mexico: median $590 across 17 hospitalsNM$590Kansas: median $726 across 54 hospitalsKS$726Arkansas: median $537 across 21 hospitalsAR$537Tennessee: median $323 across 38 hospitalsTN$323North Carolina: median $588 across 43 hospitalsNC$588South Carolina: median $1,236 across 39 hospitalsSC$1,236Oklahoma: median $618 across 48 hospitalsOK$618Louisiana: median $443 across 39 hospitalsLA$443Mississippi: median $379 across 40 hospitalsMS$379Alabama: median $548 across 23 hospitalsAL$548Georgia: median $927 across 78 hospitalsGA$927Hawaii: median $1,462 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,462Texas: median $966 across 144 hospitalsTX$966Florida: median $1,537 across 78 hospitalsFL$1,537
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $837. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ41$1,705+104%$721 – $4,881
Florida FL78$1,537+84%$600 – $2,328
Arizona AZ27$1,466+75%$586 – $3,839
Hawaii HI14$1,462+75%$1,219 – $1,968
California CA123$1,414+69%$680 – $2,222
South Carolina SC39$1,236+48%$666 – $1,251
Washington WA63$1,157+38%$714 – $1,540
South Dakota SD20$1,121+34%$759 – $1,170
Oregon OR48$1,047+25%$640 – $1,379
New York NY85$1,025+22%$659 – $1,713
Pennsylvania PA88$975+17%$643 – $2,782
Texas TX144$966+15%$663 – $1,524
Virginia VA53$947+13%$397 – $1,109
Colorado CO42$944+13%$622 – $1,414
Connecticut CT16$942+13%$646 – $1,778
Georgia GA78$927+11%$527 – $1,579
Massachusetts MA35$891+6%$420 – $1,255
Alaska AK13$876+5%$534 – $2,017
Nebraska NE44$866+3%$436 – $1,011
Illinois IL96$865+3%$537 – $1,516
Minnesota MN69$822−2%$528 – $1,252
Nevada NV12$801−4%$547 – $1,240
Wyoming WY13$757−10%$370 – $1,299
Kentucky KY26$748−11%$405 – $1,740
Wisconsin WI72$746−11%$597 – $1,233
Ohio OH75$735−12%$501 – $1,193
Michigan MI64$733−12%$528 – $1,507
North Dakota ND22$730−13%$556 – $1,103
Kansas KS54$726−13%$483 – $1,820
Missouri MO43$681−19%$439 – $1,516
Vermont VT10$657−22%$417 – $878
Montana MT26$631−25%$430 – $749
Oklahoma OK48$618−26%$340 – $1,213
New Mexico NM17$590−30%$403 – $2,278
North Carolina NC43$588−30%$340 – $980
Iowa IA60$580−31%$341 – $925
Utah UT27$563−33%$447 – $895
Indiana IN42$554−34%$390 – $1,038
West Virginia WV28$552−34%$309 – $1,208
Alabama AL23$548−35%$349 – $809
Arkansas AR21$537−36%$502 – $820
Maine ME18$527−37%$321 – $868
Idaho ID20$521−38%$387 – $1,686
New Hampshire NH17$500−40%$264 – $649
Louisiana LA39$443−47%$222 – $870
Mississippi MS40$379−55%$151 – $615
Tennessee TN38$323−61%$314 – $612
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $837.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,462$899$501 – $1,653
Children’s33$958$542 – $2,372
Critical access627$707$424 – $1,170
Ownership
For-profit202$945$533 – $2,004
Government430$711$389 – $1,216
Non-profit1,490$868$501 – $1,514
System affiliation
Part of a system1,666$886$506 – $1,561
Independent459$694$409 – $1,216

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,376
Median cash price$837
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

1,596 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $899 and the average of the middle 60% is $940; most fall between $494 and $1,579.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,596 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
$340$546$899$1,420$2,164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($340 vs $2,164).

Of the 1,718 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,596 gave a usable cash price; 41 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,125 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,285 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,125
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded86
Hospitals that filed this code2,285

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 September 4, 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 20.1-30.0 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, 20.1 to 30 cm (CPT 12036) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12036-layered-repair-of-scalp-trunk-or-limb-wound-20-1-to-30-cm