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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of neck, hand or foot wound, 7.6 to 12.5 cm

CPT 12044the billing code this page is about

Multi-layer stitch repair, including the tissue under the skin, of a cut on the neck, hand, foot or external genitals, with repaired length totaling 7.6 to 12.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $678 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,366 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $697. Most fall between $374 and $1,150 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,366
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 2,366 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
$251$424$678$1,040$1,746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $1,746).

How the prices are spread

$190 – $245: 98 hospitals$190$245 – $316: 132 hospitals$316 – $409: 208 hospitals$316$409 – $528: 289 hospitals$528 – $682: 344 hospitals$528$682 – $880: 406 hospitals$880 – $1,137: 259 hospitals$880$1,137 – $1,469: 191 hospitals$1,469 – $1,897: 139 hospitals$1,469$1,897 – $2,450: 64 hospitals$1,897median $678price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,130 of 2,366 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$190$24598
$245$316132
$316$409208
$409$528289
$528$682344
$682$880406
$880$1,137259
$1,137$1,469191
$1,469$1,897139
$1,897$2,45064

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$678
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $678.

Alaska: median $906 across 14 hospitalsAK$906Maine: median $482 across 20 hospitalsME$482Vermont: median $544 across 12 hospitalsVT$544New Hampshire: median $296 across 16 hospitalsNH$296Washington: median $766 across 64 hospitalsWA$766Idaho: median $432 across 19 hospitalsID$432Montana: median $509 across 30 hospitalsMT$509North Dakota: median $669 across 24 hospitalsND$669Minnesota: median $672 across 80 hospitalsMN$672Illinois: median $714 across 109 hospitalsIL$714Wisconsin: median $711 across 82 hospitalsWI$711Michigan: median $566 across 69 hospitalsMI$566New York: median $772 across 95 hospitalsNY$772Massachusetts: median $765 across 43 hospitalsMA$765Oregon: median $742 across 47 hospitalsOR$742Nevada: median $608 across 14 hospitalsNV$608Wyoming: median $514 across 12 hospitalsWY$514South Dakota: median $747 across 22 hospitalsSD$747Iowa: median $463 across 65 hospitalsIA$463Indiana: median $535 across 41 hospitalsIN$535Ohio: median $657 across 85 hospitalsOH$657Pennsylvania: median $918 across 110 hospitalsPA$918New Jersey: median $1,355 across 45 hospitalsNJ$1,355Connecticut: median $966 across 19 hospitalsCT$966Rhode Island: median $828 across 10 hospitalsRI$828California: median $1,139 across 127 hospitalsCA$1,139Utah: median $563 across 28 hospitalsUT$563Colorado: median $692 across 44 hospitalsCO$692Nebraska: median $708 across 54 hospitalsNE$708Missouri: median $615 across 49 hospitalsMO$615Kentucky: median $402 across 41 hospitalsKY$402West Virginia: median $700 across 37 hospitalsWV$700Virginia: median $554 across 50 hospitalsVA$554Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $518 across 26 hospitalsAZ$518New Mexico: median $629 across 24 hospitalsNM$629Kansas: median $515 across 70 hospitalsKS$515Arkansas: median $533 across 32 hospitalsAR$533Tennessee: median $307 across 42 hospitalsTN$307North Carolina: median $465 across 44 hospitalsNC$465South Carolina: median $645 across 41 hospitalsSC$645Oklahoma: median $520 across 56 hospitalsOK$520Louisiana: median $319 across 39 hospitalsLA$319Mississippi: median $326 across 46 hospitalsMS$326Alabama: median $426 across 27 hospitalsAL$426Georgia: median $667 across 71 hospitalsGA$667Hawaii: median $795 across 15 hospitalsHI$795Texas: median $608 across 154 hospitalsTX$608Florida: median $1,794 across 96 hospitalsFL$1,794
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $678. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL96$1,794+165%$758 – $2,328
New Jersey NJ45$1,355+100%$721 – $4,350
California CA127$1,139+68%$636 – $1,680
Connecticut CT19$966+43%$444 – $1,778
Pennsylvania PA110$918+35%$503 – $1,903
Alaska AK14$906+34%$601 – $1,628
Rhode Island RI10$828+22%$489 – $1,510
Hawaii HI15$795+17%$440 – $1,408
New York NY95$772+14%$374 – $1,560
Washington WA64$766+13%$494 – $1,130
Massachusetts MA43$765+13%$499 – $1,644
South Dakota SD22$747+10%$619 – $1,058
Oregon OR47$742+9%$505 – $990
Illinois IL109$714+5%$416 – $1,073
Wisconsin WI82$711+5%$481 – $1,133
Nebraska NE54$708+4%$457 – $913
West Virginia WV37$700+3%$358 – $1,119
Colorado CO44$692+2%$503 – $1,238
Minnesota MN80$672−1%$480 – $804
North Dakota ND24$669−1%$460 – $967
Georgia GA71$667−2%$405 – $1,090
Ohio OH85$657−3%$404 – $1,193
South Carolina SC41$645−5%$397 – $1,344
New Mexico NM24$629−7%$330 – $916
Missouri MO49$615−9%$439 – $1,068
Nevada NV14$608−10%$443 – $1,007
Texas TX154$608−10%$374 – $967
Michigan MI69$566−17%$202 – $1,016
Utah UT28$563−17%$507 – $1,063
Virginia VA50$554−18%$311 – $1,036
Vermont VT12$544−20%$394 – $1,612
Indiana IN41$535−21%$355 – $953
Arkansas AR32$533−21%$254 – $645
Oklahoma OK56$520−23%$351 – $898
Arizona AZ26$518−24%$470 – $1,214
Kansas KS70$515−24%$312 – $880
Wyoming WY12$514−24%$267 – $906
Montana MT30$509−25%$358 – $651
Maine ME20$482−29%$248 – $542
North Carolina NC44$465−31%$307 – $820
Iowa IA65$463−32%$323 – $708
Idaho ID19$432−36%$345 – $1,686
Alabama AL27$426−37%$212 – $791
Kentucky KY41$402−41%$293 – $901
Mississippi MS46$326−52%$233 – $789
Louisiana LA39$319−53%$183 – $684
Tennessee TN42$307−55%$247 – $740
New Hampshire NH16$296−56%$200 – $497
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $678.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,593$724$396 – $1,341
Children’s38$719$439 – $1,578
Critical access731$571$337 – $876
Ownership
For-profit234$764$465 – $1,778
Government481$581$345 – $922
Non-profit1,647$696$386 – $1,193
System affiliation
Part of a system1,866$712$396 – $1,217
Independent500$543$320 – $932

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,072
Median cash price$678
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

1,756 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $695 and the average of the middle 60% is $725; most fall between $385 and $1,208.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,756 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
$277$434$695$1,118$1,748

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($277 vs $1,748).

Of the 1,886 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,756 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,366 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,537 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,366
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here75
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 — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,537

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 N/H/F/Xtrnl Gent 7.6-12.5cm.

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 neck, hand or foot wound, 7.6 to 12.5 cm (CPT 12044) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12044-layered-repair-of-neck-hand-or-foot-wound-7-6-to-12-5-cm