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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Wound bed prep for graft, face or hands, first 100 sq cm

CPT 15004the billing code this page is about

The surgeon cleans and trims a wound on the face, scalp, eyelids, mouth, neck, ears, genitals, hands or feet so a skin graft can be placed; covers the first 100 square centimeters, or 1% of body surface in infants and children.

Hospitals typically charge $925 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,584 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,040. Most fall between $523 and $2,115 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,584
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 1,584 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
$366$599$925$1,721$4,447

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($366 vs $4,447).

How the prices are spread

$288 – $394: 113 hospitals$288$394 – $539: 138 hospitals$539 – $736: 269 hospitals$539$736 – $1,007: 250 hospitals$1,007 – $1,376: 235 hospitals$1,007$1,376 – $1,881: 137 hospitals$1,881 – $2,572: 122 hospitals$1,881$2,572 – $3,515: 55 hospitals$3,515 – $4,805: 61 hospitals$3,515$4,805 – $6,569: 47 hospitals$4,805median $925price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,427 of 1,584 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$288$394113
$394$539138
$539$736269
$736$1,007250
$1,007$1,376235
$1,376$1,881137
$1,881$2,572122
$2,572$3,51555
$3,515$4,80561
$4,805$6,56947

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$925
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $925.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $942 across 44 hospitalsWA$942Idaho: median $810 across 14 hospitalsID$810Montana: median $401 across 12 hospitalsMT$401North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $791 across 46 hospitalsMN$791Illinois: median $848 across 63 hospitalsIL$848Wisconsin: median $714 across 49 hospitalsWI$714Michigan: median $734 across 67 hospitalsMI$734New York: median $726 across 74 hospitalsNY$726Massachusetts: median $1,095 across 26 hospitalsMA$1,095Oregon: median $766 across 31 hospitalsOR$766Nevada: 4 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 $961 across 39 hospitalsIA$961Indiana: median $1,016 across 45 hospitalsIN$1,016Ohio: median $1,193 across 84 hospitalsOH$1,193Pennsylvania: median $865 across 78 hospitalsPA$865New Jersey: median $839 across 48 hospitalsNJ$839Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,281 across 105 hospitalsCA$1,281Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $792 across 30 hospitalsCO$792Nebraska: median $405 across 18 hospitalsNE$405Missouri: median $1,117 across 43 hospitalsMO$1,117Kentucky: median $638 across 25 hospitalsKY$638West Virginia: median $689 across 21 hospitalsWV$689Virginia: median $1,144 across 39 hospitalsVA$1,144Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,393 across 21 hospitalsAZ$2,393New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $795 across 23 hospitalsKS$795Arkansas: median $681 across 18 hospitalsAR$681Tennessee: median $309 across 33 hospitalsTN$309North Carolina: median $1,051 across 22 hospitalsNC$1,051South Carolina: median $1,085 across 32 hospitalsSC$1,085Oklahoma: median $614 across 30 hospitalsOK$614Louisiana: median $697 across 37 hospitalsLA$697Mississippi: median $582 across 31 hospitalsMS$582Alabama: median $702 across 16 hospitalsAL$702Georgia: median $944 across 57 hospitalsGA$944Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $897 across 118 hospitalsTX$897Florida: median $1,595 across 52 hospitalsFL$1,595
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $925. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ21$2,393+159%$1,364 – $2,393
Florida FL52$1,595+72%$885 – $2,366
California CA105$1,281+38%$698 – $4,469
Ohio OH84$1,193+29%$675 – $2,150
Virginia VA39$1,144+24%$259 – $1,258
Missouri MO43$1,117+21%$570 – $5,711
Massachusetts MA26$1,095+18%$773 – $1,858
South Carolina SC32$1,085+17%$696 – $6,100
North Carolina NC22$1,051+14%$414 – $1,399
Indiana IN45$1,016+10%$594 – $1,702
Iowa IA39$961+4%$612 – $1,257
Georgia GA57$944+2%$804 – $1,863
Washington WA44$942+2%$681 – $1,639
Texas TX118$897−3%$695 – $1,531
Pennsylvania PA78$865−6%$399 – $3,127
Illinois IL63$848−8%$385 – $2,029
New Jersey NJ48$839−9%$678 – $4,881
Idaho ID14$810−12%$411 – $1,686
Kansas KS23$795−14%$440 – $1,589
Colorado CO30$792−14%$751 – $1,473
Minnesota MN46$791−15%$627 – $2,305
Oregon OR31$766−17%$714 – $1,311
Michigan MI67$734−21%$323 – $1,157
New York NY74$726−22%$483 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI49$714−23%$662 – $1,253
Alabama AL16$702−24%$394 – $1,591
Louisiana LA37$697−25%$402 – $1,383
West Virginia WV21$689−26%$467 – $956
Arkansas AR18$681−26%$509 – $1,165
Kentucky KY25$638−31%$385 – $2,458
Oklahoma OK30$614−34%$362 – $1,173
Mississippi MS31$582−37%$334 – $1,035
Nebraska NE18$405−56%$360 – $944
Montana MT12$401−57%$248 – $713
Tennessee TN33$309−67%$259 – $1,852
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $925.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,253$986$511 – $2,305
Children’s32$1,925$750 – $3,284
Critical access296$756$555 – $1,373
Ownership
For-profit154$1,105$520 – $2,532
Government244$804$509 – $1,466
Non-profit1,183$944$524 – $2,208
System affiliation
Part of a system1,291$981$553 – $2,305
Independent293$767$468 – $1,466

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,716
Median cash price$925
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

1,054 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $933 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,022; most fall between $527 and $1,863.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,054 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
$369$628$933$1,608$2,541

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($369 vs $2,541).

Of the 1,146 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,054 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,584 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 1,717 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,584
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code1,717

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 F/S/N/H/F/G/M/D Gt 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 prep for graft, face or hands, first 100 sq cm (CPT 15004) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15004-wound-bed-prep-for-graft-face-or-hands-first-100-sq-cm