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Procedure price report · Suture of skin and subcutaneous tissue

Complex wound repair on scalp, arms or legs, 2.6-7.5 cm

CPT 13121the 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 2.6 to 7.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $792 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,519 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $858. Most fall between $447 and $1,524 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,519
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 2,519 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
$316$500$792$1,340$2,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($316 vs $2,458).

How the prices are spread

$218 – $292: 100 hospitals$218$292 – $391: 129 hospitals$391 – $524: 341 hospitals$391$524 – $702: 372 hospitals$702 – $940: 401 hospitals$702$940 – $1,259: 347 hospitals$1,259 – $1,686: 269 hospitals$1,259$1,686 – $2,258: 154 hospitals$2,258 – $3,024: 101 hospitals$2,258$3,024 – $4,050: 55 hospitals$3,024median $792price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,269 of 2,519 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$218$292100
$292$391129
$391$524341
$524$702372
$702$940401
$940$1,259347
$1,259$1,686269
$1,686$2,258154
$2,258$3,024101
$3,024$4,05055

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$792
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.91×

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 $792.

Alaska: median $1,253 across 14 hospitalsAK$1,253Maine: median $482 across 21 hospitalsME$482Vermont: median $767 across 12 hospitalsVT$767New Hampshire: median $404 across 18 hospitalsNH$404Washington: median $909 across 66 hospitalsWA$909Idaho: median $689 across 21 hospitalsID$689Montana: median $599 across 29 hospitalsMT$599North Dakota: median $830 across 26 hospitalsND$830Minnesota: median $854 across 87 hospitalsMN$854Illinois: median $864 across 108 hospitalsIL$864Wisconsin: median $757 across 82 hospitalsWI$757Michigan: median $629 across 70 hospitalsMI$629New York: median $1,085 across 105 hospitalsNY$1,085Massachusetts: median $1,125 across 45 hospitalsMA$1,125Oregon: median $770 across 49 hospitalsOR$770Nevada: median $1,024 across 15 hospitalsNV$1,024Wyoming: median $588 across 14 hospitalsWY$588South Dakota: median $1,060 across 23 hospitalsSD$1,060Iowa: median $621 across 79 hospitalsIA$621Indiana: median $509 across 51 hospitalsIN$509Ohio: median $969 across 88 hospitalsOH$969Pennsylvania: median $1,157 across 115 hospitalsPA$1,157New Jersey: median $838 across 47 hospitalsNJ$838Connecticut: median $982 across 18 hospitalsCT$982Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,196 across 130 hospitalsCA$1,196Utah: median $1,003 across 29 hospitalsUT$1,003Colorado: median $857 across 49 hospitalsCO$857Nebraska: median $743 across 66 hospitalsNE$743Missouri: median $742 across 61 hospitalsMO$742Kentucky: median $500 across 45 hospitalsKY$500West Virginia: median $850 across 35 hospitalsWV$850Virginia: median $739 across 53 hospitalsVA$739Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,174 across 23 hospitalsAZ$3,174New Mexico: median $900 across 25 hospitalsNM$900Kansas: median $512 across 69 hospitalsKS$512Arkansas: median $697 across 32 hospitalsAR$697Tennessee: median $424 across 44 hospitalsTN$424North Carolina: median $625 across 50 hospitalsNC$625South Carolina: median $695 across 43 hospitalsSC$695Oklahoma: median $569 across 63 hospitalsOK$569Louisiana: median $368 across 39 hospitalsLA$368Mississippi: median $432 across 48 hospitalsMS$432Alabama: median $604 across 30 hospitalsAL$604Georgia: median $747 across 85 hospitalsGA$747Hawaii: median $1,632 across 15 hospitalsHI$1,632Texas: median $797 across 176 hospitalsTX$797Florida: median $1,825 across 91 hospitalsFL$1,825
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $792. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ23$3,174+301%$586 – $3,839
Florida FL91$1,825+130%$680 – $2,268
Hawaii HI15$1,632+106%$1,325 – $1,886
Alaska AK14$1,253+58%$557 – $2,140
California CA130$1,196+51%$630 – $2,470
Pennsylvania PA115$1,157+46%$469 – $2,839
Massachusetts MA45$1,125+42%$515 – $1,678
New York NY105$1,085+37%$508 – $2,306
South Dakota SD23$1,060+34%$685 – $1,446
Nevada NV15$1,024+29%$442 – $1,346
Utah UT29$1,003+27%$774 – $1,119
Connecticut CT18$982+24%$570 – $1,405
Ohio OH88$969+22%$580 – $1,204
Washington WA66$909+15%$609 – $1,493
New Mexico NM25$900+14%$463 – $2,691
Illinois IL108$864+9%$481 – $1,440
Colorado CO49$857+8%$522 – $1,423
Minnesota MN87$854+8%$538 – $1,213
West Virginia WV35$850+7%$468 – $1,138
New Jersey NJ47$838+6%$678 – $4,627
North Dakota ND26$830+5%$630 – $1,092
Texas TX176$797+1%$479 – $1,285
Oregon OR49$770−3%$570 – $1,174
Vermont VT12$767−3%$257 – $2,609
Wisconsin WI82$757−4%$573 – $1,305
Georgia GA85$747−6%$451 – $1,728
Nebraska NE66$743−6%$476 – $979
Missouri MO61$742−6%$438 – $1,695
Virginia VA53$739−7%$424 – $1,367
Arkansas AR32$697−12%$449 – $2,730
South Carolina SC43$695−12%$656 – $977
Idaho ID21$689−13%$414 – $1,686
Michigan MI70$629−21%$348 – $1,305
North Carolina NC50$625−21%$455 – $1,074
Iowa IA79$621−22%$378 – $1,089
Alabama AL30$604−24%$364 – $1,167
Montana MT29$599−24%$372 – $918
Wyoming WY14$588−26%$332 – $1,282
Oklahoma OK63$569−28%$263 – $1,027
Kansas KS69$512−35%$389 – $688
Indiana IN51$509−36%$299 – $1,248
Kentucky KY45$500−37%$407 – $1,179
Maine ME21$482−39%$243 – $778
Mississippi MS48$432−45%$187 – $823
Tennessee TN44$424−46%$347 – $997
New Hampshire NH18$404−49%$215 – $834
Louisiana LA39$368−54%$208 – $862
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $792.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,700$857$461 – $1,820
Children’s44$969$437 – $2,238
Critical access771$698$416 – $1,148
Ownership
For-profit265$910$446 – $2,611
Government525$698$439 – $1,152
Non-profit1,725$834$449 – $1,556
System affiliation
Part of a system1,990$855$463 – $1,650
Independent529$643$404 – $1,138

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,329
Median cash price$792
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

1,827 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $840 and the average of the middle 60% is $885; most fall between $455 and $1,524.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,827 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
$348$506$840$1,352$2,164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($348 vs $2,164).

Of the 1,971 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,827 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 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,519 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,709 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,519
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,709

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 Complex Scalp/Arm/Leg 2.6-7.5 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, “Complex wound repair on scalp, arms or legs, 2.6-7.5 cm (CPT 13121) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-13121-complex-wound-repair-on-scalp-arms-or-legs-2-6-7-5-cm