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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered stitch repair of face or mouth wound, 5.1-7.5 cm

CPT 12053the 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 5.1 to 7.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $588 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,415 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $615. Most fall between $332 and $1,011 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,415
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 2,415 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
$244$381$588$892$1,364

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($244 vs $1,364).

How the prices are spread

$189 – $241: 111 hospitals$189$241 – $307: 171 hospitals$307 – $391: 223 hospitals$307$391 – $498: 327 hospitals$498 – $635: 356 hospitals$498$635 – $809: 368 hospitals$809 – $1,031: 273 hospitals$809$1,031 – $1,313: 196 hospitals$1,313 – $1,674: 98 hospitals$1,313$1,674 – $2,133: 58 hospitals$1,674median $588price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,181 of 2,415 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$189$241111
$241$307171
$307$391223
$391$498327
$498$635356
$635$809368
$809$1,031273
$1,031$1,313196
$1,313$1,67498
$1,674$2,13358

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$588
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $588.

Alaska: median $821 across 14 hospitalsAK$821Maine: median $401 across 21 hospitalsME$401Vermont: median $738 across 11 hospitalsVT$738New Hampshire: median $332 across 18 hospitalsNH$332Washington: median $698 across 66 hospitalsWA$698Idaho: median $482 across 19 hospitalsID$482Montana: median $468 across 30 hospitalsMT$468North Dakota: median $614 across 23 hospitalsND$614Minnesota: median $550 across 80 hospitalsMN$550Illinois: median $657 across 109 hospitalsIL$657Wisconsin: median $650 across 79 hospitalsWI$650Michigan: median $491 across 75 hospitalsMI$491New York: median $658 across 97 hospitalsNY$658Massachusetts: median $751 across 47 hospitalsMA$751Oregon: median $723 across 48 hospitalsOR$723Nevada: median $584 across 14 hospitalsNV$584Wyoming: median $407 across 14 hospitalsWY$407South Dakota: median $658 across 25 hospitalsSD$658Iowa: median $455 across 74 hospitalsIA$455Indiana: median $446 across 41 hospitalsIN$446Ohio: median $779 across 83 hospitalsOH$779Pennsylvania: median $693 across 112 hospitalsPA$693New Jersey: median $1,204 across 48 hospitalsNJ$1,204Connecticut: median $897 across 19 hospitalsCT$897Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $973 across 128 hospitalsCA$973Utah: median $584 across 27 hospitalsUT$584Colorado: median $664 across 48 hospitalsCO$664Nebraska: median $615 across 62 hospitalsNE$615Missouri: median $462 across 50 hospitalsMO$462Kentucky: median $328 across 40 hospitalsKY$328West Virginia: median $515 across 34 hospitalsWV$515Virginia: median $554 across 52 hospitalsVA$554Maryland: 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 $499 across 27 hospitalsAZ$499New Mexico: median $629 across 24 hospitalsNM$629Kansas: median $450 across 65 hospitalsKS$450Arkansas: median $417 across 24 hospitalsAR$417Tennessee: median $264 across 40 hospitalsTN$264North Carolina: median $354 across 41 hospitalsNC$354South Carolina: median $729 across 44 hospitalsSC$729Oklahoma: median $446 across 60 hospitalsOK$446Louisiana: median $300 across 44 hospitalsLA$300Mississippi: median $259 across 44 hospitalsMS$259Alabama: median $381 across 28 hospitalsAL$381Georgia: median $676 across 82 hospitalsGA$676Hawaii: median $883 across 15 hospitalsHI$883Texas: median $665 across 159 hospitalsTX$665Florida: median $974 across 94 hospitalsFL$974
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $588. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ48$1,204+105%$471 – $4,627
Florida FL94$974+66%$437 – $2,328
California CA128$973+65%$520 – $1,412
Connecticut CT19$897+53%$458 – $1,405
Hawaii HI15$883+50%$409 – $1,201
Alaska AK14$821+40%$580 – $1,768
Ohio OH83$779+33%$356 – $1,050
Massachusetts MA47$751+28%$459 – $1,165
Vermont VT11$738+25%$291 – $1,255
South Carolina SC44$729+24%$462 – $1,344
Oregon OR48$723+23%$520 – $1,045
Washington WA66$698+19%$449 – $1,011
Pennsylvania PA112$693+18%$375 – $1,189
Georgia GA82$676+15%$437 – $1,176
Texas TX159$665+13%$313 – $903
Colorado CO48$664+13%$428 – $1,202
New York NY97$658+12%$368 – $1,158
South Dakota SD25$658+12%$559 – $1,014
Illinois IL109$657+12%$350 – $966
Wisconsin WI79$650+10%$464 – $831
New Mexico NM24$629+7%$334 – $1,000
Nebraska NE62$615+5%$445 – $796
North Dakota ND23$614+4%$410 – $876
Nevada NV14$584−1%$442 – $1,008
Utah UT27$584−1%$507 – $730
Virginia VA52$554−6%$248 – $742
Minnesota MN80$550−6%$407 – $760
West Virginia WV34$515−12%$451 – $799
Arizona AZ27$499−15%$491 – $1,330
Michigan MI75$491−17%$332 – $831
Idaho ID19$482−18%$301 – $1,117
Montana MT30$468−20%$250 – $563
Missouri MO50$462−21%$227 – $755
Iowa IA74$455−23%$288 – $661
Kansas KS65$450−23%$300 – $1,067
Indiana IN41$446−24%$334 – $771
Oklahoma OK60$446−24%$227 – $771
Arkansas AR24$417−29%$216 – $588
Wyoming WY14$407−31%$268 – $728
Maine ME21$401−32%$276 – $629
Alabama AL28$381−35%$228 – $1,097
North Carolina NC41$354−40%$295 – $563
New Hampshire NH18$332−44%$181 – $595
Kentucky KY40$328−44%$277 – $770
Louisiana LA44$300−49%$183 – $559
Tennessee TN40$264−55%$234 – $488
Mississippi MS44$259−56%$186 – $550
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 $588.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,626$630$340 – $1,147
Children’s42$600$323 – $1,682
Critical access743$542$313 – $822
Ownership
For-profit235$630$374 – $1,346
Government498$507$312 – $822
Non-profit1,678$619$333 – $1,039
System affiliation
Part of a system1,909$622$350 – $1,057
Independent506$487$294 – $846

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$953
Median cash price$588
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

1,788 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $638 and the average of the middle 60% is $651; most fall between $334 and $1,082.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,788 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
$250$394$638$954$1,402

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($250 vs $1,402).

Of the 1,923 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,788 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 85 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,415 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,415
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code2,589

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 Hp 12053 Repair Intermediate F/E/E/N/L&/Muc 5.1-7.5 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 stitch repair of face or mouth wound, 5.1-7.5 cm (CPT 12053) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12053-layered-stitch-repair-of-face-or-mouth-wound-5-1-7-5-cm