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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Full-thickness skin graft, scalp/arm/leg, extra 20 sq cm

CPT 15221the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each additional 20 square centimeters of full-thickness skin graft to the scalp, arm, or leg, billed in addition to the first graft area.

Hospitals typically charge $455 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 560 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $694. Most fall between $188 and $2,053 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
560
States
47
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 560 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
$124$211$455$1,445$4,544

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $4,544).

How the prices are spread

$85 – $133: 44 hospitals$85$133 – $206: 67 hospitals$206 – $319: 93 hospitals$206$319 – $495: 61 hospitals$495 – $768: 35 hospitals$495$768 – $1,192: 52 hospitals$1,192 – $1,849: 63 hospitals$1,192$1,849 – $2,869: 28 hospitals$2,869 – $4,451: 34 hospitals$2,869$4,451 – $6,905: 34 hospitals$4,451median $455price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (511 of 560 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$85$13344
$133$20667
$206$31993
$319$49561
$495$76835
$768$1,19252
$1,192$1,84963
$1,849$2,86928
$2,869$4,45134
$4,451$6,90534

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $455.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $486 across 19 hospitalsMN$486Illinois: median $237 across 20 hospitalsIL$237Wisconsin: median $319 across 45 hospitalsWI$319Michigan: median $319 across 31 hospitalsMI$319New York: median $1,103 across 30 hospitalsNY$1,103Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $231 across 12 hospitalsOR$231Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $331 across 20 hospitalsIA$331Indiana: median $271 across 17 hospitalsIN$271Ohio: median $309 across 15 hospitalsOH$309Pennsylvania: median $135 across 26 hospitalsPA$135New Jersey: median $3,986 across 25 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,445 across 41 hospitalsCA$1,445Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $206 across 18 hospitalsMO$206Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $897 across 20 hospitalsWV$897Virginia: median $1,369 across 15 hospitalsVA$1,369Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $154 across 13 hospitalsOK$154Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $346 across 10 hospitalsMS$346Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,905 across 11 hospitalsGA$6,905Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,056 across 27 hospitalsTX$1,056Florida: median $1,264 across 17 hospitalsFL$1,264
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $455. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$6,905+1417%$5,814 – $6,905
New Jersey NJ25$3,986+776%$2,855 – $5,419
California CA41$1,445+217%$494 – $1,968
Virginia VA15$1,369+201%$132 – $1,417
Florida FL17$1,264+178%$529 – $8,201
New York NY30$1,103+142%$192 – $4,595
Texas TX27$1,056+132%$459 – $1,255
West Virginia WV20$897+97%$197 – $1,021
Minnesota MN19$486+7%$188 – $638
Mississippi MS10$346−24%$232 – $1,870
Iowa IA20$331−27%$272 – $1,532
Michigan MI31$319−30%$85 – $1,190
Wisconsin WI45$319−30%$236 – $429
Ohio OH15$309−32%$238 – $3,567
Indiana IN17$271−40%$190 – $360
Illinois IL20$237−48%$190 – $1,217
Oregon OR12$231−49%$230 – $320
Missouri MO18$206−55%$146 – $430
Oklahoma OK13$154−66%$154 – $154
Pennsylvania PA26$135−70%$44 – $1,512
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $455.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care426$647$190 – $2,808
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access123$319$167 – $891
Ownership
For-profit47$943$190 – $6,905
Government71$276$150 – $1,272
Non-profit441$467$194 – $2,053
System affiliation
Part of a system457$638$200 – $2,520
Independent103$251$124 – $943

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$675
Median cash price$455
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

330 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $331 and the average of the middle 60% is $582; most fall between $154 and $1,445.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 330 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
$122$190$331$1,445$2,855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($122 vs $2,855).

Of the 357 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 330 gave a usable cash price; 16 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

560 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 630 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted560
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code630

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 Fth/Gft Fr W/Dir Clsr S/a/L Ea Addl 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, scalp/arm/leg, extra 20 sq cm (CPT 15221) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15221-full-thickness-skin-graft-scalp-arm-leg-extra-20-sq-cm