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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered stitch repair of face or mouth wound, 2.6-5 cm

CPT 12052the billing code this page is about

Intermediate repair, using more than one layer of stitches, of a cut on the face, ear, eyelid, nose, lip or inside the mouth, with a total repaired length of 2.6 to 5.0 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $532 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,576 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $561. Most fall between $305 and $951 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,576
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 2,576 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
$223$346$532$821$1,407

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($223 vs $1,407).

How the prices are spread

$175 – $227: 139 hospitals$175$227 – $294: 204 hospitals$294 – $380: 264 hospitals$294$380 – $493: 423 hospitals$493 – $638: 409 hospitals$493$638 – $827: 373 hospitals$827 – $1,071: 209 hospitals$827$1,071 – $1,387: 168 hospitals$1,387 – $1,797: 66 hospitals$1,387$1,797 – $2,328: 65 hospitals$1,797median $532price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,320 of 2,576 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$175$227139
$227$294204
$294$380264
$380$493423
$493$638409
$638$827373
$827$1,071209
$1,071$1,387168
$1,387$1,79766
$1,797$2,32865

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$532
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.28×

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 $532.

Alaska: median $790 across 16 hospitalsAK$790Maine: median $373 across 21 hospitalsME$373Vermont: median $404 across 12 hospitalsVT$404New Hampshire: median $282 across 18 hospitalsNH$282Washington: median $640 across 68 hospitalsWA$640Idaho: median $386 across 21 hospitalsID$386Montana: median $407 across 32 hospitalsMT$407North Dakota: median $574 across 27 hospitalsND$574Minnesota: median $495 across 92 hospitalsMN$495Illinois: median $571 across 115 hospitalsIL$571Wisconsin: median $553 across 85 hospitalsWI$553Michigan: median $404 across 75 hospitalsMI$404New York: median $582 across 100 hospitalsNY$582Massachusetts: median $725 across 46 hospitalsMA$725Oregon: median $573 across 50 hospitalsOR$573Nevada: median $726 across 17 hospitalsNV$726Wyoming: median $344 across 14 hospitalsWY$344South Dakota: median $638 across 32 hospitalsSD$638Iowa: median $439 across 79 hospitalsIA$439Indiana: median $503 across 56 hospitalsIN$503Ohio: median $658 across 86 hospitalsOH$658Pennsylvania: median $539 across 116 hospitalsPA$539New Jersey: median $1,048 across 48 hospitalsNJ$1,048Connecticut: median $847 across 20 hospitalsCT$847Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $784 across 135 hospitalsCA$784Utah: median $694 across 28 hospitalsUT$694Colorado: median $542 across 48 hospitalsCO$542Nebraska: median $559 across 72 hospitalsNE$559Missouri: median $477 across 54 hospitalsMO$477Kentucky: median $308 across 48 hospitalsKY$308West Virginia: median $468 across 36 hospitalsWV$468Virginia: median $495 across 53 hospitalsVA$495Maryland: 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 $770 across 26 hospitalsAZ$770New Mexico: median $593 across 25 hospitalsNM$593Kansas: median $407 across 79 hospitalsKS$407Arkansas: median $448 across 29 hospitalsAR$448Tennessee: median $241 across 42 hospitalsTN$241North Carolina: median $397 across 46 hospitalsNC$397South Carolina: median $588 across 45 hospitalsSC$588Oklahoma: median $387 across 66 hospitalsOK$387Louisiana: median $312 across 47 hospitalsLA$312Mississippi: median $260 across 52 hospitalsMS$260Alabama: median $382 across 29 hospitalsAL$382Georgia: median $589 across 73 hospitalsGA$589Hawaii: median $766 across 16 hospitalsHI$766Texas: median $595 across 171 hospitalsTX$595Florida: median $1,024 across 94 hospitalsFL$1,024
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $532. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ48$1,048+97%$471 – $4,350
Florida FL94$1,024+93%$555 – $3,086
Connecticut CT20$847+59%$417 – $1,129
Alaska AK16$790+49%$527 – $1,628
California CA135$784+47%$520 – $1,412
Arizona AZ26$770+45%$427 – $1,630
Hawaii HI16$766+44%$451 – $1,086
Nevada NV17$726+37%$442 – $995
Massachusetts MA46$725+36%$413 – $1,165
Utah UT28$694+30%$507 – $831
Ohio OH86$658+24%$356 – $1,088
Washington WA68$640+20%$422 – $977
South Dakota SD32$638+20%$433 – $877
Texas TX171$595+12%$313 – $943
New Mexico NM25$593+12%$313 – $909
Georgia GA73$589+11%$327 – $1,148
South Carolina SC45$588+11%$260 – $1,280
New York NY100$582+9%$339 – $1,140
North Dakota ND27$574+8%$427 – $677
Oregon OR50$573+8%$414 – $950
Illinois IL115$571+7%$301 – $940
Nebraska NE72$559+5%$424 – $691
Wisconsin WI85$553+4%$368 – $704
Colorado CO48$542+2%$375 – $964
Pennsylvania PA116$539+1%$356 – $1,160
Indiana IN56$503−5%$328 – $890
Minnesota MN92$495−7%$337 – $657
Virginia VA53$495−7%$175 – $700
Missouri MO54$477−10%$285 – $1,287
West Virginia WV36$468−12%$390 – $645
Arkansas AR29$448−16%$229 – $519
Iowa IA79$439−17%$260 – $608
Kansas KS79$407−23%$265 – $741
Montana MT32$407−23%$242 – $631
Vermont VT12$404−24%$291 – $1,201
Michigan MI75$404−24%$209 – $704
North Carolina NC46$397−25%$295 – $530
Oklahoma OK66$387−27%$177 – $784
Idaho ID21$386−27%$282 – $1,117
Alabama AL29$382−28%$227 – $791
Maine ME21$373−30%$278 – $498
Wyoming WY14$344−35%$254 – $807
Louisiana LA47$312−41%$176 – $500
Kentucky KY48$308−42%$277 – $590
New Hampshire NH18$282−47%$166 – $541
Mississippi MS52$260−51%$187 – $541
Tennessee TN42$241−55%$175 – $446
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 $532.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,702$568$313 – $1,098
Children’s48$584$292 – $1,217
Critical access822$490$281 – $719
Ownership
For-profit269$644$327 – $1,746
Government535$473$280 – $731
Non-profit1,768$550$308 – $966
System affiliation
Part of a system2,028$560$313 – $1,012
Independent548$451$266 – $766

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$862
Median cash price$532
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

1,871 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $571 and the average of the middle 60% is $592; most fall between $313 and $969.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,871 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
$239$364$571$865$1,307

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($239 vs $1,307).

Of the 2,014 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,871 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 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,576 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,772 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,576
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
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 — excluded104
Hospitals that filed this code2,772

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 2.6-5.0 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 stitch repair of face or mouth wound, 2.6-5 cm (CPT 12052) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12052-layered-stitch-repair-of-face-or-mouth-wound-2-6-5-cm