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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Wound bed preparation on trunk, arm or leg, each extra area

CPT 15003the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge billed for each additional 100 square centimeters, or each additional 1% of body surface in infants and children, of graft site prepared on the trunk, arm or leg.

Hospitals typically charge $571 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 881 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $616. Most fall between $114 and $1,677 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
881
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 881 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
$76$141$571$1,346$2,988

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 39× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $2,988).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $86: 76 hospitals$54$86 – $136: 96 hospitals$136 – $215: 90 hospitals$136$215 – $341: 63 hospitals$341 – $541: 62 hospitals$341$541 – $858: 136 hospitals$858 – $1,360: 112 hospitals$858$1,360 – $2,156: 78 hospitals$2,156 – $3,418: 52 hospitals$2,156$3,418 – $5,419: 30 hospitals$3,418median $571price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (795 of 881 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$8676
$86$13696
$136$21590
$215$34163
$341$54162
$541$858136
$858$1,360112
$1,360$2,15678
$2,156$3,41852
$3,418$5,41930

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $571.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $454 across 21 hospitalsWA$454Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $174 across 17 hospitalsMN$174Illinois: median $329 across 35 hospitalsIL$329Wisconsin: median $280 across 33 hospitalsWI$280Michigan: median $60 across 32 hospitalsMI$60New York: median $345 across 28 hospitalsNY$345Massachusetts: median $176 across 14 hospitalsMA$176Oregon: median $1,594 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,594Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $178 across 27 hospitalsIA$178Indiana: median $154 across 18 hospitalsIN$154Ohio: median $697 across 50 hospitalsOH$697Pennsylvania: median $334 across 46 hospitalsPA$334New Jersey: median $3,592 across 26 hospitalsNJ$3,592Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,347 across 80 hospitalsCA$1,347Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $841 across 18 hospitalsCO$841Nebraska: median $178 across 14 hospitalsNE$178Missouri: median $124 across 17 hospitalsMO$124Kentucky: median $102 across 10 hospitalsKY$102West Virginia: median $183 across 17 hospitalsWV$183Virginia: median $344 across 17 hospitalsVA$344Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $364 across 11 hospitalsKS$364Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $66 across 22 hospitalsTN$66North Carolina: median $262 across 17 hospitalsNC$262South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $83 across 14 hospitalsOK$83Louisiana: median $391 across 16 hospitalsLA$391Mississippi: median $334 across 15 hospitalsMS$334Alabama: median $206 across 12 hospitalsAL$206Georgia: median $675 across 45 hospitalsGA$675Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $744 across 62 hospitalsTX$744Florida: median $1,242 across 35 hospitalsFL$1,242
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $571. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ26$3,592+529%$1,617 – $5,339
Oregon OR17$1,594+179%$125 – $1,947
California CA80$1,347+136%$582 – $1,848
Florida FL35$1,242+117%$766 – $3,807
Colorado CO18$841+47%$138 – $2,337
Texas TX62$744+30%$583 – $1,255
Ohio OH50$697+22%$208 – $1,029
Georgia GA45$675+18%$534 – $2,907
Washington WA21$454−21%$170 – $1,514
Louisiana LA16$391−32%$165 – $1,100
Kansas KS11$364−36%$101 – $647
New York NY28$345−40%$139 – $1,386
Virginia VA17$344−40%$45 – $811
Pennsylvania PA46$334−41%$60 – $1,404
Mississippi MS15$334−42%$280 – $547
Illinois IL35$329−42%$102 – $1,140
Wisconsin WI33$280−51%$151 – $644
North Carolina NC17$262−54%$114 – $1,127
Alabama AL12$206−64%$93 – $1,338
West Virginia WV17$183−68%$48 – $1,055
Nebraska NE14$178−69%$116 – $1,184
Iowa IA27$178−69%$116 – $927
Massachusetts MA14$176−69%$123 – $2,552
Minnesota MN17$174−69%$101 – $382
Indiana IN18$154−73%$102 – $1,838
Missouri MO17$124−78%$80 – $16,538
Kentucky KY10$102−82%$70 – $1,652
Oklahoma OK14$83−86%$83 – $876
Tennessee TN22$66−88%$45 – $307
Michigan MI32$60−89%$56 – $278
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $571.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care708$613$124 – $1,820
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access152$215$94 – $876
Ownership
For-profit77$675$114 – $2,907
Government127$311$105 – $1,178
Non-profit674$583$120 – $1,772
System affiliation
Part of a system729$613$120 – $1,848
Independent152$220$94 – $918

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$943
Median cash price$571
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

654 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $583 and the average of the middle 60% is $632; most fall between $121 and $1,610.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 654 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
$83$158$583$1,323$2,585

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $2,585).

Of the 712 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 654 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

881 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 987 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted881
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code987

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Addl 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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Wound bed preparation on trunk, arm or leg, each extra area (CPT 15003) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15003-wound-bed-preparation-on-trunk-arm-or-leg-each-extra-area