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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered stitch repair of face or mouth wound, 7.6-12.5 cm

CPT 12054the 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 7.6 to 12.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $622 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $642. Most fall between $353 and $1,068 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,296
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 2,296 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
$262$399$622$927$1,499

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($262 vs $1,499).

How the prices are spread

$182 – $233: 70 hospitals$182$233 – $299: 145 hospitals$299 – $382: 196 hospitals$299$382 – $489: 305 hospitals$489 – $626: 321 hospitals$489$626 – $801: 374 hospitals$801 – $1,025: 271 hospitals$801$1,025 – $1,311: 190 hospitals$1,311 – $1,678: 130 hospitals$1,311$1,678 – $2,147: 66 hospitals$1,678median $622price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,068 of 2,296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$182$23370
$233$299145
$299$382196
$382$489305
$489$626321
$626$801374
$801$1,025271
$1,025$1,311190
$1,311$1,678130
$1,678$2,14766

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$622
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.50×

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 $622.

Alaska: median $1,057 across 13 hospitalsAK$1,057Maine: median $417 across 21 hospitalsME$417Vermont: median $602 across 11 hospitalsVT$602New Hampshire: median $346 across 17 hospitalsNH$346Washington: median $714 across 65 hospitalsWA$714Idaho: median $482 across 19 hospitalsID$482Montana: median $498 across 29 hospitalsMT$498North Dakota: median $546 across 25 hospitalsND$546Minnesota: median $589 across 79 hospitalsMN$589Illinois: median $731 across 109 hospitalsIL$731Wisconsin: median $686 across 77 hospitalsWI$686Michigan: median $559 across 67 hospitalsMI$559New York: median $652 across 89 hospitalsNY$652Massachusetts: median $656 across 41 hospitalsMA$656Oregon: median $839 across 49 hospitalsOR$839Nevada: median $597 across 14 hospitalsNV$597Wyoming: median $547 across 14 hospitalsWY$547South Dakota: median $709 across 24 hospitalsSD$709Iowa: median $461 across 67 hospitalsIA$461Indiana: median $446 across 41 hospitalsIN$446Ohio: median $518 across 77 hospitalsOH$518Pennsylvania: median $806 across 111 hospitalsPA$806New Jersey: median $1,065 across 46 hospitalsNJ$1,065Connecticut: median $881 across 19 hospitalsCT$881Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $967 across 128 hospitalsCA$967Utah: median $584 across 26 hospitalsUT$584Colorado: median $806 across 43 hospitalsCO$806Nebraska: median $677 across 51 hospitalsNE$677Missouri: median $566 across 48 hospitalsMO$566Kentucky: median $432 across 36 hospitalsKY$432West Virginia: median $490 across 34 hospitalsWV$490Virginia: median $430 across 51 hospitalsVA$430Maryland: 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 $516 across 20 hospitalsAZ$516New Mexico: median $650 across 22 hospitalsNM$650Kansas: median $560 across 62 hospitalsKS$560Arkansas: median $439 across 21 hospitalsAR$439Tennessee: median $326 across 41 hospitalsTN$326North Carolina: median $416 across 40 hospitalsNC$416South Carolina: median $764 across 42 hospitalsSC$764Oklahoma: median $495 across 60 hospitalsOK$495Louisiana: median $299 across 41 hospitalsLA$299Mississippi: median $259 across 44 hospitalsMS$259Alabama: median $362 across 28 hospitalsAL$362Georgia: median $654 across 67 hospitalsGA$654Hawaii: median $801 across 14 hospitalsHI$801Texas: median $611 across 151 hospitalsTX$611Florida: median $933 across 88 hospitalsFL$933
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $622. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ46$1,065+71%$471 – $4,350
Alaska AK13$1,057+70%$637 – $1,791
California CA128$967+56%$566 – $1,719
Florida FL88$933+50%$497 – $1,595
Connecticut CT19$881+42%$444 – $1,736
Oregon OR49$839+35%$563 – $1,045
Pennsylvania PA111$806+30%$405 – $1,869
Colorado CO43$806+30%$464 – $1,437
Hawaii HI14$801+29%$441 – $1,460
South Carolina SC42$764+23%$512 – $1,411
Illinois IL109$731+18%$377 – $1,143
Washington WA65$714+15%$449 – $1,042
South Dakota SD24$709+14%$609 – $1,066
Wisconsin WI77$686+10%$519 – $806
Nebraska NE51$677+9%$451 – $850
Massachusetts MA41$656+6%$385 – $1,249
Georgia GA67$654+5%$363 – $1,038
New York NY89$652+5%$394 – $1,224
New Mexico NM22$650+5%$368 – $1,100
Texas TX151$611−2%$313 – $1,069
Vermont VT11$602−3%$197 – $1,535
Nevada NV14$597−4%$442 – $1,127
Minnesota MN79$589−5%$437 – $867
Utah UT26$584−6%$492 – $730
Missouri MO48$566−9%$377 – $1,414
Kansas KS62$560−10%$364 – $1,040
Michigan MI67$559−10%$359 – $817
Wyoming WY14$547−12%$275 – $1,010
North Dakota ND25$546−12%$378 – $737
Ohio OH77$518−17%$364 – $779
Arizona AZ20$516−17%$516 – $1,286
Montana MT29$498−20%$265 – $728
Oklahoma OK60$495−20%$232 – $815
West Virginia WV34$490−21%$379 – $736
Idaho ID19$482−23%$383 – $1,117
Iowa IA67$461−26%$294 – $702
Indiana IN41$446−28%$357 – $1,012
Arkansas AR21$439−29%$206 – $814
Kentucky KY36$432−30%$315 – $923
Virginia VA51$430−31%$262 – $837
Maine ME21$417−33%$278 – $529
North Carolina NC40$416−33%$320 – $697
Alabama AL28$362−42%$274 – $679
New Hampshire NH17$346−44%$221 – $637
Tennessee TN41$326−48%$267 – $508
Louisiana LA41$299−52%$171 – $458
Mississippi MS44$259−58%$127 – $560
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $622.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,549$638$356 – $1,196
Children’s43$630$399 – $1,719
Critical access701$585$339 – $871
Ownership
For-profit221$636$362 – $1,408
Government479$559$345 – $891
Non-profit1,593$638$356 – $1,099
System affiliation
Part of a system1,800$651$371 – $1,109
Independent496$524$322 – $943

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,007
Median cash price$622
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

1,708 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $656 and the average of the middle 60% is $678; most fall between $355 and $1,141.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,708 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
$264$405$656$998$1,595

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($264 vs $1,595).

Of the 1,841 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,708 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 88 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,296 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,467 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,467

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 September 4, 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 7.6-12.5 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, 7.6-12.5 cm (CPT 12054) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12054-layered-stitch-repair-of-face-or-mouth-wound-7-6-12-5-cm