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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Skin cell suspension graft on trunk or limbs, first area

CPT 15015the billing code this page is about

Applying a liquid suspension of the patient's own skin cells to a wound on the trunk, arms or legs; this code covers the first 100 square centimeters treated, with separate add-on codes for further area.

Hospitals typically charge $2,449 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 165 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,620. Most fall between $1,730 and $3,923 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
165
States
26
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 165 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
$1,048$1,959$2,449$3,567$4,514

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,048 vs $4,514).

How the prices are spread

$687 – $831: 5 hospitals$687$831 – $1,004: 2 hospitals$1,004 – $1,213: 12 hospitals$1,004$1,213 – $1,465: 3 hospitals$1,465 – $1,771: 7 hospitals$1,465$1,771 – $2,140: 15 hospitals$2,140 – $2,586: 37 hospitals$2,140$2,586 – $3,124: 23 hospitals$3,124 – $3,775: 19 hospitals$3,124$3,775 – $4,562: 26 hospitals$3,775median $2,449price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (149 of 165 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$687$8315
$831$1,0042
$1,004$1,21312
$1,213$1,4653
$1,465$1,7717
$1,771$2,14015
$2,140$2,58637
$2,586$3,12423
$3,124$3,77519
$3,775$4,56226

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$2,449
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $2,449.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: median $2,282 across 17 hospitalsWI$2,282Michigan: median $2,282 across 13 hospitalsMI$2,282New York: median $2,165 across 19 hospitalsNY$2,165Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $3,567 across 15 hospitalsOH$3,567Pennsylvania: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $2,026 across 12 hospitalsNJ$2,026Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,514 across 20 hospitalsCA$4,514Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: median $2,972 across 15 hospitalsSC$2,972Oklahoma: median $1,048 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,048Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,449. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$4,514+84%$4,514 – $4,514
Ohio OH15$3,567+46%$453 – $3,567
South Carolina SC15$2,972+21%$2,972 – $3,430
Michigan MI13$2,282−7%$1,959 – $2,837
Wisconsin WI17$2,282−7%$1,730 – $2,282
New York NY19$2,165−12%$2,108 – $2,449
New Jersey NJ12$2,026−17%$2,025 – $2,670
Oklahoma OK12$1,048−57%$1,048 – $1,048
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $2,449.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care143$2,670$1,467 – $4,491
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access19fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit134$2,576$1,467 – $4,459
System affiliation
Part of a system148$2,519$1,730 – $4,459
Independent17fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,573
Median cash price$2,449
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

110 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,856 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,716; most fall between $1,207 and $4,491.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 110 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
$1,048$1,959$2,856$3,567$4,514

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,048 vs $4,514).

Of the 118 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 110 gave a usable cash price; 4 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

165 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 182 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted165
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code182

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Appl Skin Cell Ssp Agrft T/a/L 1st 480 Sq 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, “Skin cell suspension graft on trunk or limbs, first area (CPT 15015) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15015-skin-cell-suspension-graft-on-trunk-or-limbs-first-area