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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Layered stitch repair of face or mouth wound, 12.6-20 cm

CPT 12055the 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 12.6 to 20.0 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $707 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,920 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $728. Most fall between $387 and $1,226 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,920
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,920 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
$300$438$707$1,092$1,699

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $1,699).

How the prices are spread

$222 – $281: 62 hospitals$222$281 – $354: 152 hospitals$354 – $447: 192 hospitals$354$447 – $565: 245 hospitals$565 – $713: 228 hospitals$565$713 – $900: 266 hospitals$900 – $1,137: 245 hospitals$900$1,137 – $1,435: 143 hospitals$1,435 – $1,812: 120 hospitals$1,435$1,812 – $2,288: 77 hospitals$1,812median $707price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,730 of 1,920 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$222$28162
$281$354152
$354$447192
$447$565245
$565$713228
$713$900266
$900$1,137245
$1,137$1,435143
$1,435$1,812120
$1,812$2,28877

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$707
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.70×

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 $707.

Alaska: median $1,171 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,171Maine: median $401 across 18 hospitalsME$401Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $444 across 13 hospitalsNH$444Washington: median $782 across 59 hospitalsWA$782Idaho: median $1,022 across 16 hospitalsID$1,022Montana: median $654 across 23 hospitalsMT$654North Dakota: median $636 across 20 hospitalsND$636Minnesota: median $557 across 61 hospitalsMN$557Illinois: median $800 across 88 hospitalsIL$800Wisconsin: median $865 across 58 hospitalsWI$865Michigan: median $649 across 53 hospitalsMI$649New York: median $787 across 76 hospitalsNY$787Massachusetts: median $945 across 36 hospitalsMA$945Oregon: median $1,052 across 42 hospitalsOR$1,052Nevada: median $714 across 13 hospitalsNV$714Wyoming: median $764 across 12 hospitalsWY$764South Dakota: median $834 across 18 hospitalsSD$834Iowa: median $540 across 52 hospitalsIA$540Indiana: median $555 across 38 hospitalsIN$555Ohio: median $648 across 74 hospitalsOH$648Pennsylvania: median $826 across 82 hospitalsPA$826New Jersey: median $1,355 across 40 hospitalsNJ$1,355Connecticut: median $635 across 11 hospitalsCT$635Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,269 across 119 hospitalsCA$1,269Utah: median $531 across 26 hospitalsUT$531Colorado: median $866 across 40 hospitalsCO$866Nebraska: median $684 across 42 hospitalsNE$684Missouri: median $653 across 35 hospitalsMO$653Kentucky: median $567 across 26 hospitalsKY$567West Virginia: median $553 across 30 hospitalsWV$553Virginia: median $528 across 50 hospitalsVA$528Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $678 across 19 hospitalsAZ$678New Mexico: median $685 across 16 hospitalsNM$685Kansas: median $652 across 44 hospitalsKS$652Arkansas: median $533 across 19 hospitalsAR$533Tennessee: median $336 across 33 hospitalsTN$336North Carolina: median $406 across 37 hospitalsNC$406South Carolina: median $913 across 39 hospitalsSC$913Oklahoma: median $376 across 44 hospitalsOK$376Louisiana: median $328 across 35 hospitalsLA$328Mississippi: median $315 across 34 hospitalsMS$315Alabama: median $360 across 22 hospitalsAL$360Georgia: median $721 across 56 hospitalsGA$721Hawaii: median $964 across 11 hospitalsHI$964Texas: median $766 across 136 hospitalsTX$766Florida: median $969 across 71 hospitalsFL$969
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $707. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ40$1,355+92%$471 – $4,881
California CA119$1,269+79%$555 – $1,949
Alaska AK12$1,171+66%$756 – $2,471
Oregon OR42$1,052+49%$770 – $1,536
Idaho ID16$1,022+45%$460 – $1,117
Florida FL71$969+37%$502 – $2,053
Hawaii HI11$964+36%$954 – $1,704
Massachusetts MA36$945+34%$421 – $1,411
South Carolina SC39$913+29%$679 – $1,481
Colorado CO40$866+22%$519 – $1,270
Wisconsin WI58$865+22%$634 – $937
South Dakota SD18$834+18%$703 – $1,330
Pennsylvania PA82$826+17%$418 – $1,829
Illinois IL88$800+13%$431 – $1,320
New York NY76$787+11%$473 – $1,420
Washington WA59$782+11%$495 – $1,405
Texas TX136$766+8%$313 – $1,062
Wyoming WY12$764+8%$384 – $1,264
Georgia GA56$721+2%$363 – $1,499
Nevada NV13$714+1%$442 – $1,497
New Mexico NM16$685−3%$385 – $1,210
Nebraska NE42$684−3%$429 – $1,047
Arizona AZ19$678−4%$678 – $1,320
Montana MT23$654−8%$386 – $1,012
Missouri MO35$653−8%$313 – $1,516
Kansas KS44$652−8%$382 – $1,514
Michigan MI53$649−8%$405 – $934
Ohio OH74$648−8%$434 – $794
North Dakota ND20$636−10%$440 – $927
Connecticut CT11$635−10%$387 – $1,129
Kentucky KY26$567−20%$315 – $1,390
Minnesota MN61$557−21%$427 – $770
Indiana IN38$555−22%$415 – $1,038
West Virginia WV30$553−22%$334 – $797
Iowa IA52$540−24%$377 – $1,008
Arkansas AR19$533−25%$229 – $874
Utah UT26$531−25%$447 – $657
Virginia VA50$528−25%$300 – $1,036
New Hampshire NH13$444−37%$251 – $667
North Carolina NC37$406−43%$340 – $693
Maine ME18$401−43%$274 – $560
Oklahoma OK44$376−47%$316 – $885
Alabama AL22$360−49%$304 – $703
Tennessee TN33$336−53%$294 – $583
Louisiana LA35$328−54%$146 – $595
Mississippi MS34$315−55%$140 – $597
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $707.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,337$712$384 – $1,322
Children’s33$995$448 – $2,355
Critical access547$681$389 – $1,098
Ownership
For-profit176$731$415 – $1,446
Government378$639$350 – $1,120
Non-profit1,363$725$400 – $1,237
System affiliation
Part of a system1,512$725$406 – $1,238
Independent408$631$363 – $1,131

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,170
Median cash price$707
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

1,439 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $741 and the average of the middle 60% is $765; most fall between $389 and $1,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,439 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
$308$442$741$1,117$1,827

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($308 vs $1,827).

Of the 1,551 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,439 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 74 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,920 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,069 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,920
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded81
Hospitals that filed this code2,069

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 12.6-20.0cm.

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, 12.6-20 cm (CPT 12055) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-12055-layered-stitch-repair-of-face-or-mouth-wound-12-6-20-cm