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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Wound bed preparation on trunk, arm or leg, first area

CPT 15002the billing code this page is about

Cleaning and surgical preparation of a wound, burn or scar site on the trunk, arm or leg so a graft can be placed; covers the first 100 square centimeters, or first 1% of body surface in infants and children.

Hospitals typically charge $1,429 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,566 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,640. Most fall between $587 and $3,440 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,566
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 1,566 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
$404$678$1,429$3,054$5,107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($404 vs $5,107).

How the prices are spread

$303 – $417: 96 hospitals$303$417 – $573: 127 hospitals$573 – $787: 177 hospitals$573$787 – $1,082: 175 hospitals$1,082 – $1,488: 139 hospitals$1,082$1,488 – $2,045: 154 hospitals$2,045 – $2,812: 179 hospitals$2,045$2,812 – $3,865: 188 hospitals$3,865 – $5,313: 121 hospitals$3,865$5,313 – $7,304: 55 hospitals$5,313median $1,429price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,411 of 1,566 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$303$41796
$417$573127
$573$787177
$787$1,082175
$1,082$1,488139
$1,488$2,045154
$2,045$2,812179
$2,812$3,865188
$3,865$5,313121
$5,313$7,30455

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$1,429
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.89×

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 $1,429.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $572 across 11 hospitalsME$572Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $453 across 10 hospitalsNH$453Washington: median $2,474 across 39 hospitalsWA$2,474Idaho: median $856 across 14 hospitalsID$856Montana: median $581 across 12 hospitalsMT$581North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,057 across 41 hospitalsMN$1,057Illinois: median $1,369 across 66 hospitalsIL$1,369Wisconsin: median $1,142 across 51 hospitalsWI$1,142Michigan: median $870 across 58 hospitalsMI$870New York: median $2,165 across 77 hospitalsNY$2,165Massachusetts: median $1,611 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,611Oregon: median $844 across 29 hospitalsOR$844Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $859 across 39 hospitalsIA$859Indiana: median $1,246 across 46 hospitalsIN$1,246Ohio: median $1,650 across 85 hospitalsOH$1,650Pennsylvania: median $2,107 across 79 hospitalsPA$2,107New Jersey: median $2,484 across 43 hospitalsNJ$2,484Connecticut: median $1,250 across 13 hospitalsCT$1,250Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,344 across 107 hospitalsCA$3,344Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,284 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,284Nebraska: median $1,049 across 21 hospitalsNE$1,049Missouri: median $1,743 across 45 hospitalsMO$1,743Kentucky: median $1,632 across 25 hospitalsKY$1,632West Virginia: median $840 across 24 hospitalsWV$840Virginia: median $1,214 across 40 hospitalsVA$1,214Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,260 across 23 hospitalsAZ$2,260New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $644 across 27 hospitalsKS$644Arkansas: median $881 across 15 hospitalsAR$881Tennessee: median $524 across 32 hospitalsTN$524North Carolina: median $1,202 across 23 hospitalsNC$1,202South Carolina: median $2,972 across 26 hospitalsSC$2,972Oklahoma: median $937 across 23 hospitalsOK$937Louisiana: median $999 across 33 hospitalsLA$999Mississippi: median $604 across 26 hospitalsMS$604Alabama: median $1,591 across 19 hospitalsAL$1,591Georgia: median $1,422 across 58 hospitalsGA$1,422Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,531 across 103 hospitalsTX$1,531Florida: median $3,557 across 55 hospitalsFL$3,557
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,429. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL55$3,557+149%$2,131 – $5,294
California CA107$3,344+134%$1,531 – $5,107
South Carolina SC26$2,972+108%$1,510 – $3,241
New Jersey NJ43$2,484+74%$2,025 – $4,881
Washington WA39$2,474+73%$689 – $3,606
Arizona AZ23$2,260+58%$825 – $3,378
New York NY77$2,165+51%$478 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA79$2,107+47%$420 – $3,651
Missouri MO45$1,743+22%$519 – $4,904
Ohio OH85$1,650+15%$930 – $3,567
Kentucky KY25$1,632+14%$586 – $2,154
Massachusetts MA20$1,611+13%$1,095 – $2,600
Alabama AL19$1,591+11%$659 – $6,098
Texas TX103$1,531+7%$738 – $2,247
Georgia GA58$1,4220%$686 – $3,333
Illinois IL66$1,369−4%$519 – $3,806
Colorado CO35$1,284−10%$717 – $2,686
Connecticut CT13$1,250−13%$765 – $6,113
Indiana IN46$1,246−13%$739 – $2,069
Virginia VA40$1,214−15%$311 – $3,210
North Carolina NC23$1,202−16%$543 – $2,914
Wisconsin WI51$1,142−20%$615 – $1,617
Minnesota MN41$1,057−26%$596 – $1,984
Nebraska NE21$1,049−27%$397 – $1,389
Louisiana LA33$999−30%$574 – $2,609
Oklahoma OK23$937−34%$410 – $2,132
Arkansas AR15$881−38%$545 – $2,106
Michigan MI58$870−39%$217 – $2,273
Iowa IA39$859−40%$458 – $2,565
Idaho ID14$856−40%$354 – $2,988
Oregon OR29$844−41%$524 – $3,896
West Virginia WV24$840−41%$242 – $5,745
Kansas KS27$644−55%$489 – $1,589
Mississippi MS26$604−58%$478 – $1,046
Montana MT12$581−59%$340 – $1,028
Maine ME11$572−60%$200 – $1,422
Tennessee TN32$524−63%$311 – $1,418
New Hampshire NH10$453−68%$230 – $739
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,429.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,225$1,762$672 – $3,745
Children’s28$1,486$643 – $4,753
Critical access308$762$460 – $1,800
Ownership
For-profit149$1,882$626 – $6,082
Government244$858$515 – $2,497
Non-profit1,168$1,556$616 – $3,397
System affiliation
Part of a system1,271$1,599$622 – $3,567
Independent295$909$499 – $2,468

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,574
Median cash price$1,429
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,050 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,531 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,651; most fall between $606 and $3,291.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,050 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
$410$679$1,531$2,988$4,138

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($410 vs $4,138).

Of the 1,129 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,050 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,566 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,691 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,566
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
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 — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,691

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 Skin graft family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prep Site Trunk/Arm/Leg 1st 100 Sq Cm/1pct.

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, “Wound bed preparation on trunk, arm or leg, first area (CPT 15002) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15002-wound-bed-preparation-on-trunk-arm-or-leg-first-area