HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Complex wound repair on scalp, arms or legs, 1.1-2.5 cm

CPT 13120the billing code this page is about

Complex closure of a wound on the scalp, arms or legs, involving extra work such as trimming the wound edges or layered reconstruction, for a repaired length of 1.1 to 2.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $696 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,047 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $733. Most fall between $392 and $1,343 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,047
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 2,047 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$426$696$1,142$1,956

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($262 vs $1,956).

How the prices are spread

$205 – $265: 107 hospitals$205$265 – $343: 105 hospitals$343 – $444: 231 hospitals$343$444 – $574: 272 hospitals$574 – $743: 295 hospitals$574$743 – $961: 292 hospitals$961 – $1,243: 187 hospitals$961$1,243 – $1,609: 164 hospitals$1,609 – $2,082: 113 hospitals$1,609$2,082 – $2,693: 77 hospitals$2,082median $696price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,843 of 2,047 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$205$265107
$265$343105
$343$444231
$444$574272
$574$743295
$743$961292
$961$1,243187
$1,243$1,609164
$1,609$2,082113
$2,082$2,69377

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$696
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.68×

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 $696.

Alaska: median $1,069 across 12 hospitalsAK$1,069Maine: median $475 across 17 hospitalsME$475Vermont: median $774 across 11 hospitalsVT$774New Hampshire: median $496 across 15 hospitalsNH$496Washington: median $763 across 60 hospitalsWA$763Idaho: median $537 across 19 hospitalsID$537Montana: median $502 across 24 hospitalsMT$502North Dakota: median $913 across 19 hospitalsND$913Minnesota: median $672 across 63 hospitalsMN$672Illinois: median $642 across 87 hospitalsIL$642Wisconsin: median $815 across 75 hospitalsWI$815Michigan: median $559 across 58 hospitalsMI$559New York: median $724 across 80 hospitalsNY$724Massachusetts: median $927 across 34 hospitalsMA$927Oregon: median $792 across 44 hospitalsOR$792Nevada: median $602 across 13 hospitalsNV$602Wyoming: median $379 across 13 hospitalsWY$379South Dakota: median $763 across 17 hospitalsSD$763Iowa: median $517 across 54 hospitalsIA$517Indiana: median $415 across 40 hospitalsIN$415Ohio: median $803 across 78 hospitalsOH$803Pennsylvania: median $1,033 across 94 hospitalsPA$1,033New Jersey: median $1,707 across 47 hospitalsNJ$1,707Connecticut: median $584 across 15 hospitalsCT$584Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,139 across 120 hospitalsCA$1,139Utah: median $563 across 26 hospitalsUT$563Colorado: median $768 across 39 hospitalsCO$768Nebraska: median $575 across 50 hospitalsNE$575Missouri: median $510 across 43 hospitalsMO$510Kentucky: median $415 across 24 hospitalsKY$415West Virginia: median $482 across 29 hospitalsWV$482Virginia: median $717 across 50 hospitalsVA$717Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,386 across 22 hospitalsAZ$2,386New Mexico: median $900 across 17 hospitalsNM$900Kansas: median $392 across 52 hospitalsKS$392Arkansas: median $641 across 20 hospitalsAR$641Tennessee: median $416 across 25 hospitalsTN$416North Carolina: median $423 across 35 hospitalsNC$423South Carolina: median $902 across 38 hospitalsSC$902Oklahoma: median $385 across 51 hospitalsOK$385Louisiana: median $354 across 35 hospitalsLA$354Mississippi: median $338 across 24 hospitalsMS$338Alabama: median $506 across 25 hospitalsAL$506Georgia: median $725 across 79 hospitalsGA$725Hawaii: median $1,462 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,462Texas: median $707 across 148 hospitalsTX$707Florida: median $1,492 across 79 hospitalsFL$1,492
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $696. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ22$2,386+243%$539 – $3,234
New Jersey NJ47$1,707+145%$678 – $4,627
Florida FL79$1,492+114%$557 – $2,164
Hawaii HI14$1,462+110%$774 – $2,072
California CA120$1,139+64%$652 – $2,117
Alaska AK12$1,069+54%$604 – $1,906
Pennsylvania PA94$1,033+48%$462 – $2,721
Massachusetts MA34$927+33%$459 – $1,810
North Dakota ND19$913+31%$604 – $1,092
South Carolina SC38$902+30%$613 – $1,197
New Mexico NM17$900+29%$362 – $2,321
Wisconsin WI75$815+17%$536 – $1,353
Ohio OH78$803+15%$454 – $1,294
Oregon OR44$792+14%$526 – $960
Vermont VT11$774+11%$291 – $946
Colorado CO39$768+10%$530 – $990
South Dakota SD17$763+10%$494 – $904
Washington WA60$763+10%$491 – $1,008
Georgia GA79$725+4%$393 – $1,003
New York NY80$724+4%$488 – $1,573
Virginia VA50$717+3%$416 – $1,336
Texas TX148$707+2%$450 – $1,109
Minnesota MN63$672−3%$392 – $1,056
Illinois IL87$642−8%$369 – $1,276
Arkansas AR20$641−8%$434 – $697
Nevada NV13$602−14%$442 – $1,098
Connecticut CT15$584−16%$403 – $1,778
Nebraska NE50$575−17%$400 – $831
Utah UT26$563−19%$507 – $945
Michigan MI58$559−20%$221 – $1,542
Idaho ID19$537−23%$359 – $1,686
Iowa IA54$517−26%$346 – $876
Missouri MO43$510−27%$237 – $1,306
Alabama AL25$506−27%$352 – $867
Montana MT24$502−28%$242 – $764
New Hampshire NH15$496−29%$204 – $884
West Virginia WV29$482−31%$261 – $902
Maine ME17$475−32%$247 – $623
North Carolina NC35$423−39%$248 – $632
Tennessee TN25$416−40%$409 – $914
Indiana IN40$415−40%$197 – $724
Kentucky KY24$415−40%$340 – $673
Kansas KS52$392−44%$272 – $549
Oklahoma OK51$385−45%$287 – $905
Wyoming WY13$379−46%$289 – $836
Louisiana LA35$354−49%$209 – $618
Mississippi MS24$338−51%$193 – $512
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $696.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,426$730$412 – $1,512
Children’s40$772$366 – $1,306
Critical access577$579$331 – $980
Ownership
For-profit192$746$413 – $1,778
Government416$573$336 – $949
Non-profit1,435$725$404 – $1,353
System affiliation
Part of a system1,608$735$410 – $1,458
Independent439$554$333 – $923

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,185
Median cash price$696
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

1,512 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $738 and the average of the middle 60% is $795; most fall between $412 and $1,414.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,512 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
$297$455$738$1,276$1,956

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($297 vs $1,956).

Of the 1,637 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,512 gave a usable cash price; 42 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,047 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,204 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,047
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded87
Hospitals that filed this code2,204

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 PR Repr Cmpl Wnd Scalp,Extr 1.1-2.5.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Complex wound repair on scalp, arms or legs, 1.1-2.5 cm (CPT 13120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-13120-complex-wound-repair-on-scalp-arms-or-legs-1-1-2-5-cm