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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Skin substitute graft, trunk/arm/leg, first 25 sq cm

CPT 15271the billing code this page is about

Placement of a manufactured or donor-derived skin replacement product on a wound of the trunk, arm, or leg with a total wound area under 100 square centimeters; this code covers the first 25 square centimeters of wound.

Hospitals typically charge $1,522 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,380 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,622. Most fall between $408 and $3,163 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,380
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 2,380 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
$212$575$1,522$2,837$4,224

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($212 vs $4,224).

How the prices are spread

$143 – $206: 103 hospitals$143$206 – $297: 142 hospitals$297 – $426: 122 hospitals$297$426 – $613: 136 hospitals$613 – $882: 176 hospitals$613$882 – $1,268: 252 hospitals$1,268 – $1,823: 276 hospitals$1,268$1,823 – $2,621: 385 hospitals$2,621 – $3,769: 364 hospitals$2,621$3,769 – $5,419: 187 hospitals$3,769median $1,522price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,143 of 2,380 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$143$206103
$206$297142
$297$426122
$426$613136
$613$882176
$882$1,268252
$1,268$1,823276
$1,823$2,621385
$2,621$3,769364
$3,769$5,419187

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$1,522
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.0×

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 $1,522.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $733 across 15 hospitalsME$733Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $236 across 15 hospitalsNH$236Washington: median $1,511 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,511Idaho: median $1,882 across 20 hospitalsID$1,882Montana: median $284 across 16 hospitalsMT$284North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $744 across 67 hospitalsMN$744Illinois: median $1,747 across 102 hospitalsIL$1,747Wisconsin: median $575 across 74 hospitalsWI$575Michigan: median $1,360 across 85 hospitalsMI$1,360New York: median $2,210 across 96 hospitalsNY$2,210Massachusetts: median $2,459 across 38 hospitalsMA$2,459Oregon: median $279 across 46 hospitalsOR$279Nevada: median $803 across 13 hospitalsNV$803Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $590 across 19 hospitalsSD$590Iowa: median $386 across 70 hospitalsIA$386Indiana: median $1,310 across 66 hospitalsIN$1,310Ohio: median $1,721 across 128 hospitalsOH$1,721Pennsylvania: median $2,145 across 98 hospitalsPA$2,145New Jersey: median $2,400 across 54 hospitalsNJ$2,400Connecticut: median $2,045 across 21 hospitalsCT$2,045Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,958 across 141 hospitalsCA$2,958Utah: median $2,554 across 30 hospitalsUT$2,554Colorado: median $1,180 across 47 hospitalsCO$1,180Nebraska: median $617 across 45 hospitalsNE$617Missouri: median $2,050 across 64 hospitalsMO$2,050Kentucky: median $937 across 35 hospitalsKY$937West Virginia: median $1,133 across 34 hospitalsWV$1,133Virginia: median $1,701 across 54 hospitalsVA$1,701Maryland: median $945 across 15 hospitalsMD$945Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,663 across 30 hospitalsAZ$2,663New Mexico: median $1,036 across 12 hospitalsNM$1,036Kansas: median $450 across 58 hospitalsKS$450Arkansas: median $686 across 22 hospitalsAR$686Tennessee: median $729 across 45 hospitalsTN$729North Carolina: median $1,244 across 68 hospitalsNC$1,244South Carolina: median $2,538 across 40 hospitalsSC$2,538Oklahoma: median $1,213 across 48 hospitalsOK$1,213Louisiana: median $1,535 across 33 hospitalsLA$1,535Mississippi: median $1,176 across 48 hospitalsMS$1,176Alabama: median $2,000 across 34 hospitalsAL$2,000Georgia: median $1,170 across 73 hospitalsGA$1,170Hawaii: median $669 across 10 hospitalsHI$669Texas: median $2,182 across 150 hospitalsTX$2,182Florida: median $3,088 across 90 hospitalsFL$3,088
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,522. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL90$3,088+103%$1,300 – $4,965
California CA141$2,958+94%$676 – $4,844
Arizona AZ30$2,663+75%$342 – $3,669
Utah UT30$2,554+68%$2,554 – $2,837
South Carolina SC40$2,538+67%$1,235 – $3,241
Massachusetts MA38$2,459+62%$1,626 – $4,092
New Jersey NJ54$2,400+58%$1,210 – $5,339
New York NY96$2,210+45%$662 – $4,595
Texas TX150$2,182+43%$923 – $2,635
Pennsylvania PA98$2,145+41%$873 – $3,392
Missouri MO64$2,050+35%$678 – $2,989
Connecticut CT21$2,045+34%$445 – $3,644
Alabama AL34$2,000+31%$498 – $6,336
Idaho ID20$1,882+24%$248 – $2,988
Illinois IL102$1,747+15%$428 – $3,498
Ohio OH128$1,721+13%$966 – $3,095
Virginia VA54$1,701+12%$861 – $3,102
Louisiana LA33$1,535+1%$601 – $2,174
Washington WA63$1,511−1%$317 – $3,326
Michigan MI85$1,360−11%$132 – $3,414
Indiana IN66$1,310−14%$264 – $2,965
North Carolina NC68$1,244−18%$549 – $2,156
Oklahoma OK48$1,213−20%$893 – $2,318
Colorado CO47$1,180−23%$954 – $3,059
Mississippi MS48$1,176−23%$408 – $2,540
Georgia GA73$1,170−23%$638 – $3,302
West Virginia WV34$1,133−26%$239 – $2,252
New Mexico NM12$1,036−32%$263 – $2,487
Maryland MD15$945−38%$282 – $1,761
Kentucky KY35$937−38%$195 – $2,254
Nevada NV13$803−47%$396 – $2,379
Minnesota MN67$744−51%$293 – $2,045
Maine ME15$733−52%$168 – $1,806
Tennessee TN45$729−52%$368 – $1,223
Arkansas AR22$686−55%$489 – $1,626
Hawaii HI10$669−56%$177 – $1,875
Nebraska NE45$617−59%$295 – $1,145
South Dakota SD19$590−61%$384 – $2,973
Wisconsin WI74$575−62%$250 – $1,493
Kansas KS58$450−70%$181 – $2,061
Iowa IA70$386−75%$205 – $1,877
Montana MT16$284−81%$126 – $1,348
Oregon OR46$279−82%$226 – $2,147
New Hampshire NH15$236−85%$141 – $699
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $1,522.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,788$1,882$686 – $3,440
Children’s22$1,139$408 – $2,554
Critical access561$569$200 – $2,097
Ownership
For-profit227$1,913$656 – $4,092
Government448$966$242 – $2,730
Non-profit1,696$1,625$485 – $3,164
System affiliation
Part of a system1,909$1,639$549 – $3,244
Independent471$968$221 – $2,766

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,748
Median cash price$1,522
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

1,670 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,771 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,785; most fall between $549 and $3,214.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,670 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
$250$729$1,771$2,965$4,091

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($250 vs $4,091).

Of the 1,806 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,670 gave a usable cash price; 59 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,380 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,586 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,380
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here111
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,586

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 App Skn Sub Grft T/a/L Area/100sq Cm /<1st 25.

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 substitute graft, trunk/arm/leg, first 25 sq cm (CPT 15271) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15271-skin-substitute-graft-trunk-arm-leg-first-25-sq-cm