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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Full-thickness skin graft to trunk, first small area

CPT 15200the billing code this page is about

Transfer of a full-thickness piece of the patient's own skin to a trunk wound, including stitched closure of the site the skin came from; covers 20 square centimeters or less.

Hospitals typically charge $2,418 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 571 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,554. Most fall between $1,317 and $4,595 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
571
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 571 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
$952$1,508$2,418$3,986$6,588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($952 vs $6,588).

How the prices are spread

$679 – $881: 26 hospitals$679$881 – $1,143: 36 hospitals$1,143 – $1,482: 54 hospitals$1,143$1,482 – $1,922: 57 hospitals$1,922 – $2,494: 101 hospitals$1,922$2,494 – $3,235: 94 hospitals$3,235 – $4,196: 45 hospitals$3,235$4,196 – $5,443: 41 hospitals$5,443 – $7,061: 45 hospitals$5,443$7,061 – $9,159: 21 hospitals$7,061median $2,418price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (520 of 571 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$679$88126
$881$1,14336
$1,143$1,48254
$1,482$1,92257
$1,922$2,494101
$2,494$3,23594
$3,235$4,19645
$4,196$5,44341
$5,443$7,06145
$7,061$9,15921

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$2,418
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $2,418.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,640 across 10 hospitalsWA$1,640Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,131 across 17 hospitalsMN$2,131Illinois: median $1,199 across 20 hospitalsIL$1,199Wisconsin: median $2,708 across 31 hospitalsWI$2,708Michigan: median $1,361 across 17 hospitalsMI$1,361New York: median $2,576 across 45 hospitalsNY$2,576Massachusetts: median $5,903 across 12 hospitalsMA$5,903Oregon: median $2,029 across 18 hospitalsOR$2,029Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,053 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,053Indiana: median $3,730 across 19 hospitalsIN$3,730Ohio: median $2,379 across 14 hospitalsOH$2,379Pennsylvania: median $2,145 across 35 hospitalsPA$2,145New Jersey: median $4,350 across 36 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,751 across 40 hospitalsCA$5,751Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,283 across 14 hospitalsMO$1,283Kentucky: median $1,540 across 12 hospitalsKY$1,540West Virginia: median $1,828 across 19 hospitalsWV$1,828Virginia: median $2,640 across 16 hospitalsVA$2,640Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,365 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,365Louisiana: median $1,896 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,896Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,284 across 19 hospitalsGA$2,284Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,499 across 30 hospitalsTX$2,499Florida: median $2,379 across 14 hospitalsFL$2,379
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,418. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA12$5,903+144%$3,247 – $6,876
California CA40$5,751+138%$1,340 – $5,751
New Jersey NJ36$4,350+80%$2,154 – $7,588
Indiana IN19$3,730+54%$952 – $4,947
Wisconsin WI31$2,708+12%$2,708 – $4,059
Virginia VA16$2,640+9%$1,179 – $2,704
New York NY45$2,576+7%$1,970 – $4,595
Texas TX30$2,499+3%$1,801 – $3,157
Florida FL14$2,379−2%$1,735 – $7,510
Ohio OH14$2,379−2%$1,471 – $3,567
Georgia GA19$2,284−6%$2,190 – $6,588
Pennsylvania PA35$2,145−11%$453 – $3,093
Minnesota MN17$2,131−12%$1,514 – $2,418
Iowa IA19$2,053−15%$1,738 – $3,375
Oregon OR18$2,029−16%$1,539 – $4,523
Louisiana LA11$1,896−22%$1,065 – $3,107
West Virginia WV19$1,828−24%$700 – $2,635
Washington WA10$1,640−32%$1,519 – $3,260
Kentucky KY12$1,540−36%$952 – $1,948
Oklahoma OK14$1,365−44%$1,365 – $3,418
Michigan MI17$1,361−44%$1,129 – $2,837
Missouri MO14$1,283−47%$1,146 – $2,740
Illinois IL20$1,199−50%$872 – $3,043
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $2,418.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care443$2,418$1,340 – $4,595
Children’s20$7,386$1,699 – $9,240
Critical access107$2,061$1,146 – $4,059
Ownership
For-profit52$2,190$952 – $3,974
Government89$2,165$1,283 – $3,107
Non-profit429$2,499$1,365 – $4,829
System affiliation
Part of a system471$2,466$1,365 – $4,831
Independent100$1,875$1,182 – $3,516

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,475
Median cash price$2,418
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

309 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,150 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,141; most fall between $1,146 and $3,375.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 309 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
$937$1,361$2,150$3,043$5,751

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($937 vs $5,751).

Of the 339 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 309 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

571 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 636 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted571
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code636

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 Fth/Gft Free W/Direct Closure Trunk 20 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, “Full-thickness skin graft to trunk, first small area (CPT 15200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15200-full-thickness-skin-graft-to-trunk-first-small-area