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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered repair of face or lip wound, up to 2.5 cm

CPT 12051the billing code this page is about

Multi-layer stitch repair, including the tissue under the skin, of a cut on the face, ear, eyelid, nose, lip or mouth lining, with repaired length up to 2.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $494 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,611 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $521. Most fall between $282 and $886 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,611
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 2,611 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
$200$318$494$779$1,303

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($200 vs $1,303).

How the prices are spread

$144 – $191: 114 hospitals$144$191 – $254: 183 hospitals$254 – $336: 299 hospitals$254$336 – $445: 387 hospitals$445 – $590: 491 hospitals$445$590 – $782: 374 hospitals$782 – $1,037: 255 hospitals$782$1,037 – $1,374: 136 hospitals$1,374 – $1,820: 73 hospitals$1,374$1,820 – $2,412: 46 hospitals$1,820median $494price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,358 of 2,611 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$144$191114
$191$254183
$254$336299
$336$445387
$445$590491
$590$782374
$782$1,037255
$1,037$1,374136
$1,374$1,82073
$1,820$2,41246

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$494
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $494.

Alaska: median $761 across 15 hospitalsAK$761Maine: median $315 across 22 hospitalsME$315Vermont: median $322 across 12 hospitalsVT$322New Hampshire: median $203 across 18 hospitalsNH$203Washington: median $557 across 68 hospitalsWA$557Idaho: median $389 across 21 hospitalsID$389Montana: median $392 across 32 hospitalsMT$392North Dakota: median $518 across 28 hospitalsND$518Minnesota: median $459 across 95 hospitalsMN$459Illinois: median $537 across 119 hospitalsIL$537Wisconsin: median $545 across 85 hospitalsWI$545Michigan: median $371 across 77 hospitalsMI$371New York: median $516 across 99 hospitalsNY$516Massachusetts: median $684 across 49 hospitalsMA$684Oregon: median $579 across 51 hospitalsOR$579Nevada: median $602 across 17 hospitalsNV$602Wyoming: median $292 across 14 hospitalsWY$292South Dakota: median $622 across 28 hospitalsSD$622Iowa: median $401 across 83 hospitalsIA$401Indiana: median $446 across 55 hospitalsIN$446Ohio: median $551 across 90 hospitalsOH$551Pennsylvania: median $486 across 118 hospitalsPA$486New Jersey: median $532 across 48 hospitalsNJ$532Connecticut: median $472 across 19 hospitalsCT$472Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $725 across 136 hospitalsCA$725Utah: median $423 across 29 hospitalsUT$423Colorado: median $603 across 50 hospitalsCO$603Nebraska: median $517 across 71 hospitalsNE$517Missouri: median $455 across 61 hospitalsMO$455Kentucky: median $305 across 46 hospitalsKY$305West Virginia: median $480 across 36 hospitalsWV$480Virginia: median $478 across 54 hospitalsVA$478Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,320 across 25 hospitalsAZ$1,320New Mexico: median $515 across 26 hospitalsNM$515Kansas: median $363 across 79 hospitalsKS$363Arkansas: median $374 across 33 hospitalsAR$374Tennessee: median $302 across 44 hospitalsTN$302North Carolina: median $425 across 47 hospitalsNC$425South Carolina: median $527 across 45 hospitalsSC$527Oklahoma: median $308 across 64 hospitalsOK$308Louisiana: median $292 across 45 hospitalsLA$292Mississippi: median $281 across 52 hospitalsMS$281Alabama: median $360 across 27 hospitalsAL$360Georgia: median $535 across 73 hospitalsGA$535Hawaii: median $870 across 17 hospitalsHI$870Texas: median $536 across 175 hospitalsTX$536Florida: median $974 across 96 hospitalsFL$974
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $494. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ25$1,320+167%$473 – $2,764
Florida FL96$974+97%$445 – $2,830
Hawaii HI17$870+76%$461 – $1,019
Alaska AK15$761+54%$431 – $1,385
California CA136$725+47%$433 – $1,375
Massachusetts MA49$684+38%$478 – $1,113
South Dakota SD28$622+26%$474 – $791
Colorado CO50$603+22%$334 – $859
Nevada NV17$602+22%$414 – $1,303
Oregon OR51$579+17%$391 – $842
Washington WA68$557+13%$401 – $834
Ohio OH90$551+11%$334 – $781
Wisconsin WI85$545+10%$362 – $800
Illinois IL119$537+9%$270 – $846
Texas TX175$536+8%$313 – $823
Georgia GA73$535+8%$327 – $1,013
New Jersey NJ48$532+8%$471 – $4,350
South Carolina SC45$527+7%$250 – $1,219
North Dakota ND28$518+5%$408 – $683
Nebraska NE71$517+5%$339 – $610
New York NY99$516+4%$264 – $1,107
New Mexico NM26$515+4%$313 – $857
Pennsylvania PA118$486−2%$276 – $826
West Virginia WV36$480−3%$384 – $721
Virginia VA54$478−3%$153 – $648
Connecticut CT19$472−4%$293 – $1,280
Minnesota MN95$459−7%$335 – $638
Missouri MO61$455−8%$282 – $1,111
Indiana IN55$446−10%$295 – $902
North Carolina NC47$425−14%$295 – $530
Utah UT29$423−14%$329 – $556
Iowa IA83$401−19%$257 – $617
Montana MT32$392−21%$255 – $567
Idaho ID21$389−21%$231 – $1,117
Arkansas AR33$374−24%$216 – $488
Michigan MI77$371−25%$194 – $689
Kansas KS79$363−26%$213 – $848
Alabama AL27$360−27%$181 – $811
Vermont VT12$322−35%$239 – $1,168
Maine ME22$315−36%$237 – $482
Oklahoma OK64$308−38%$178 – $608
Kentucky KY46$305−38%$264 – $656
Tennessee TN44$302−39%$128 – $488
Louisiana LA45$292−41%$183 – $538
Wyoming WY14$292−41%$210 – $771
Mississippi MS52$281−43%$180 – $531
New Hampshire NH18$203−59%$147 – $499
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $494.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,721$527$297 – $999
Children’s58$665$358 – $1,780
Critical access828$438$257 – $667
Ownership
For-profit270$579$313 – $1,746
Government543$442$264 – $711
Non-profit1,794$507$280 – $887
System affiliation
Part of a system2,060$516$299 – $950
Independent551$417$247 – $717

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$800
Median cash price$494
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

1,889 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $518 and the average of the middle 60% is $544; most fall between $295 and $919.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,889 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$327$518$808$1,204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $1,204).

Of the 2,029 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,889 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,611 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,804 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,611
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded100
Hospitals that filed this code2,804

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 F/E/E/N/L&/Muc 2.5 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 face or lip wound, up to 2.5 cm (CPT 12051) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12051-layered-repair-of-face-or-lip-wound-up-to-2-5-cm