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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Skin substitute graft, trunk/arm/leg, first 100 sq cm

CPT 15273the billing code this page is about

Placement of a skin replacement product on a large wound of the trunk, arm, or leg measuring 100 square centimeters or more; this code covers the first 100 square centimeters, or 1% of body surface in infants and children.

Hospitals typically charge $2,599 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,793 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,781. Most fall between $744 and $5,356 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,793
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 1,793 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
$456$972$2,599$4,855$7,260

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($456 vs $7,260).

How the prices are spread

$303 – $427: 70 hospitals$303$427 – $601: 117 hospitals$601 – $848: 130 hospitals$601$848 – $1,194: 119 hospitals$1,194 – $1,683: 95 hospitals$1,194$1,683 – $2,372: 226 hospitals$2,372 – $3,343: 217 hospitals$2,372$3,343 – $4,711: 257 hospitals$4,711 – $6,639: 249 hospitals$4,711$6,639 – $9,356: 135 hospitals$6,639median $2,599price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,615 of 1,793 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$303$42770
$427$601117
$601$848130
$848$1,194119
$1,194$1,68395
$1,683$2,372226
$2,372$3,343217
$3,343$4,711257
$4,711$6,639249
$6,639$9,356135

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$2,599
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.23×

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 $2,599.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $739 across 11 hospitalsME$739Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,808 across 44 hospitalsWA$2,808Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,130 across 32 hospitalsMN$1,130Illinois: median $3,150 across 91 hospitalsIL$3,150Wisconsin: median $1,351 across 56 hospitalsWI$1,351Michigan: median $2,350 across 68 hospitalsMI$2,350New York: median $4,332 across 72 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: median $4,348 across 31 hospitalsMA$4,348Oregon: median $918 across 29 hospitalsOR$918Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,010 across 11 hospitalsSD$4,010Iowa: median $1,786 across 45 hospitalsIA$1,786Indiana: median $1,525 across 50 hospitalsIN$1,525Ohio: median $2,978 across 115 hospitalsOH$2,978Pennsylvania: median $3,666 across 88 hospitalsPA$3,666New Jersey: median $4,350 across 50 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: median $3,300 across 15 hospitalsCT$3,300Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,570 across 92 hospitalsCA$4,570Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,227 across 39 hospitalsCO$2,227Nebraska: median $1,677 across 31 hospitalsNE$1,677Missouri: median $3,572 across 52 hospitalsMO$3,572Kentucky: median $842 across 26 hospitalsKY$842West Virginia: median $1,075 across 28 hospitalsWV$1,075Virginia: median $4,541 across 45 hospitalsVA$4,541Maryland: median $1,058 across 10 hospitalsMD$1,058Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,532 across 20 hospitalsAZ$2,532New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,238 across 44 hospitalsKS$1,238Arkansas: median $1,117 across 16 hospitalsAR$1,117Tennessee: median $1,468 across 37 hospitalsTN$1,468North Carolina: median $1,532 across 44 hospitalsNC$1,532South Carolina: median $2,398 across 37 hospitalsSC$2,398Oklahoma: median $2,479 across 40 hospitalsOK$2,479Louisiana: median $1,196 across 28 hospitalsLA$1,196Mississippi: median $1,220 across 31 hospitalsMS$1,220Alabama: median $1,841 across 24 hospitalsAL$1,841Georgia: median $2,015 across 67 hospitalsGA$2,015Hawaii: median $1,867 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,867Texas: median $2,366 across 116 hospitalsTX$2,366Florida: median $5,049 across 68 hospitalsFL$5,049
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,599. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL68$5,049+94%$2,257 – $8,924
California CA92$4,570+76%$1,614 – $9,470
Virginia VA45$4,541+75%$861 – $6,510
New Jersey NJ50$4,350+67%$2,670 – $5,462
Massachusetts MA31$4,348+67%$1,560 – $6,425
New York NY72$4,332+67%$468 – $8,386
South Dakota SD11$4,010+54%$788 – $4,010
Pennsylvania PA88$3,666+41%$2,018 – $5,685
Missouri MO52$3,572+37%$739 – $4,930
Connecticut CT15$3,300+27%$1,095 – $8,983
Illinois IL91$3,150+21%$739 – $6,555
Ohio OH115$2,978+15%$1,942 – $5,879
Washington WA44$2,808+8%$546 – $5,031
Arizona AZ20$2,532−3%$446 – $4,795
Oklahoma OK40$2,479−5%$1,652 – $5,765
South Carolina SC37$2,398−8%$1,901 – $4,366
Texas TX116$2,366−9%$2,034 – $3,895
Michigan MI68$2,350−10%$256 – $4,336
Colorado CO39$2,227−14%$1,667 – $5,763
Georgia GA67$2,015−22%$848 – $5,462
Hawaii HI10$1,867−28%$356 – $3,038
Alabama AL24$1,841−29%$700 – $5,370
Iowa IA45$1,786−31%$507 – $4,373
Nebraska NE31$1,677−35%$328 – $2,532
North Carolina NC44$1,532−41%$741 – $3,756
Indiana IN50$1,525−41%$458 – $4,704
Tennessee TN37$1,468−44%$861 – $1,947
Wisconsin WI56$1,351−48%$526 – $2,245
Kansas KS44$1,238−52%$340 – $3,338
Mississippi MS31$1,220−53%$414 – $2,195
Louisiana LA28$1,196−54%$686 – $4,658
Minnesota MN32$1,130−57%$648 – $3,986
Arkansas AR16$1,117−57%$709 – $3,835
West Virginia WV28$1,075−59%$205 – $3,837
Maryland MD10$1,058−59%$702 – $1,378
Oregon OR29$918−65%$451 – $4,842
Kentucky KY26$842−68%$458 – $4,189
Maine ME11$739−72%$321 – $2,029
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $2,599.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,410$2,978$993 – $5,565
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access356$1,239$458 – $3,980
Ownership
For-profit156$2,640$994 – $5,783
Government333$1,891$546 – $5,315
Non-profit1,296$2,808$845 – $5,352
System affiliation
Part of a system1,464$2,758$861 – $5,410
Independent329$1,931$452 – $4,957

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,743
Median cash price$2,599
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

1,295 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,943 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,027; most fall between $861 and $5,681.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,295 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
$526$1,134$2,943$5,220$7,511

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($526 vs $7,511).

Of the 1,408 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,295 gave a usable cash price; 46 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 67 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,793 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,957 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,793
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
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 — excluded78
Hospitals that filed this code1,957

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 Hp 15273 App Skn Subgrft T/a/L Area/100sq Cm 1st 100sq 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 substitute graft, trunk/arm/leg, first 100 sq cm (CPT 15273) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15273-skin-substitute-graft-trunk-arm-leg-first-100-sq-cm