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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of neck, hand or foot wound, 20.1 to 30 cm

CPT 12046the 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 20.1 to 30 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $790 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,416 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $860. Most fall between $448 and $1,492 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,416
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,416 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
$316$505$790$1,320$2,082

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($316 vs $2,082).

How the prices are spread

$243 – $309: 63 hospitals$243$309 – $392: 80 hospitals$392 – $498: 126 hospitals$392$498 – $632: 163 hospitals$632 – $802: 213 hospitals$632$802 – $1,019: 169 hospitals$1,019 – $1,293: 170 hospitals$1,019$1,293 – $1,642: 114 hospitals$1,642 – $2,085: 108 hospitals$1,642$2,085 – $2,648: 79 hospitals$2,085median $790price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,285 of 1,416 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$243$30963
$309$39280
$392$498126
$498$632163
$632$802213
$802$1,019169
$1,019$1,293170
$1,293$1,642114
$1,642$2,085108
$2,085$2,64879

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$790
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $790.

Alaska: median $978 across 10 hospitalsAK$978Maine: median $518 across 12 hospitalsME$518Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,025 across 45 hospitalsWA$1,025Idaho: median $1,579 across 16 hospitalsID$1,579Montana: median $493 across 18 hospitalsMT$493North Dakota: median $900 across 18 hospitalsND$900Minnesota: median $716 across 38 hospitalsMN$716Illinois: median $738 across 67 hospitalsIL$738Wisconsin: median $1,054 across 45 hospitalsWI$1,054Michigan: median $765 across 59 hospitalsMI$765New York: median $1,041 across 60 hospitalsNY$1,041Massachusetts: median $1,049 across 31 hospitalsMA$1,049Oregon: median $1,206 across 33 hospitalsOR$1,206Nevada: median $803 across 10 hospitalsNV$803Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $847 across 12 hospitalsSD$847Iowa: median $613 across 37 hospitalsIA$613Indiana: median $586 across 32 hospitalsIN$586Ohio: median $725 across 51 hospitalsOH$725Pennsylvania: median $755 across 43 hospitalsPA$755New Jersey: median $3,819 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,235 across 98 hospitalsCA$1,235Utah: median $401 across 24 hospitalsUT$401Colorado: median $1,101 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,101Nebraska: median $1,001 across 30 hospitalsNE$1,001Missouri: median $681 across 29 hospitalsMO$681Kentucky: median $500 across 18 hospitalsKY$500West Virginia: median $708 across 25 hospitalsWV$708Virginia: median $964 across 23 hospitalsVA$964Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $515 across 12 hospitalsNM$515Kansas: median $684 across 33 hospitalsKS$684Arkansas: median $533 across 13 hospitalsAR$533Tennessee: median $316 across 16 hospitalsTN$316North Carolina: median $423 across 26 hospitalsNC$423South Carolina: median $2,648 across 27 hospitalsSC$2,648Oklahoma: median $508 across 30 hospitalsOK$508Louisiana: median $373 across 30 hospitalsLA$373Mississippi: median $468 across 20 hospitalsMS$468Alabama: median $360 across 16 hospitalsAL$360Georgia: median $737 across 43 hospitalsGA$737Hawaii: median $1,290 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,290Texas: median $789 across 80 hospitalsTX$789Florida: median $1,407 across 58 hospitalsFL$1,407
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $790. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ33$3,819+383%$678 – $5,124
South Carolina SC27$2,648+235%$656 – $2,648
Idaho ID16$1,579+100%$598 – $1,686
Florida FL58$1,407+78%$587 – $2,419
Hawaii HI12$1,290+63%$818 – $1,462
California CA98$1,235+56%$680 – $2,145
Oregon OR33$1,206+53%$767 – $1,516
Colorado CO34$1,101+39%$746 – $1,444
Wisconsin WI45$1,054+33%$592 – $1,377
Massachusetts MA31$1,049+33%$577 – $1,858
New York NY60$1,041+32%$724 – $1,616
Washington WA45$1,025+30%$669 – $1,618
Nebraska NE30$1,001+27%$406 – $1,320
Alaska AK10$978+24%$638 – $2,113
Virginia VA23$964+22%$546 – $1,655
North Dakota ND18$900+14%$531 – $1,126
South Dakota SD12$847+7%$703 – $880
Nevada NV10$803+2%$547 – $980
Texas TX80$7890%$496 – $1,035
Michigan MI59$765−3%$405 – $1,086
Pennsylvania PA43$755−4%$214 – $1,928
Illinois IL67$738−7%$464 – $1,472
Georgia GA43$737−7%$363 – $1,728
Ohio OH51$725−8%$534 – $1,193
Minnesota MN38$716−9%$276 – $2,242
West Virginia WV25$708−10%$357 – $934
Kansas KS33$684−13%$357 – $1,289
Missouri MO29$681−14%$411 – $1,213
Iowa IA37$613−22%$463 – $932
Indiana IN32$586−26%$464 – $1,038
Arkansas AR13$533−33%$298 – $695
Maine ME12$518−34%$359 – $686
New Mexico NM12$515−35%$403 – $1,009
Oklahoma OK30$508−36%$396 – $1,142
Kentucky KY18$500−37%$364 – $786
Montana MT18$493−38%$356 – $857
Mississippi MS20$468−41%$194 – $610
North Carolina NC26$423−47%$340 – $574
Utah UT24$401−49%$329 – $491
Louisiana LA30$373−53%$222 – $677
Alabama AL16$360−54%$303 – $612
Tennessee TN16$316−60%$137 – $608
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $790.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care980$847$463 – $1,665
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access414$714$425 – $1,255
Ownership
For-profit121$857$465 – $1,666
Government294$723$356 – $1,310
Non-profit998$809$467 – $1,583
System affiliation
Part of a system1,089$847$465 – $1,618
Independent327$715$383 – $1,262

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,330
Median cash price$790
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

1,037 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $857 and the average of the middle 60% is $919; most fall between $463 and $1,655.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,037 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$508$857$1,407$2,145

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($340 vs $2,145).

Of the 1,121 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,037 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,416 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,531 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,416
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded62
Hospitals that filed this code1,531

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 Rpr Intermediate N/H/F/Xtrnl Gent 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 neck, hand or foot wound, 20.1 to 30 cm (CPT 12046) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12046-layered-repair-of-neck-hand-or-foot-wound-20-1-to-30-cm