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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Skin substitute graft, face/hands/feet, extra 100 sq cm

CPT 15278the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each additional 100 square centimeters, or part of it, of a large wound on the face, scalp, mouth, neck, ears, genitals, hands, feet, or digits, or each additional 1% of body surface in children.

Hospitals typically charge $617 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,374 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $714. Most fall between $172 and $1,663 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,374
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 1,374 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
$107$227$617$1,360$2,912

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($107 vs $2,912).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $101: 53 hospitals$67$101 – $152: 117 hospitals$152 – $228: 106 hospitals$152$228 – $343: 109 hospitals$343 – $515: 161 hospitals$343$515 – $774: 154 hospitals$774 – $1,163: 197 hospitals$774$1,163 – $1,747: 154 hospitals$1,747 – $2,624: 91 hospitals$1,747$2,624 – $3,942: 104 hospitals$2,624median $617price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,246 of 1,374 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$10153
$101$152117
$152$228106
$228$343109
$343$515161
$515$774154
$774$1,163197
$1,163$1,747154
$1,747$2,62491
$2,624$3,942104

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $617.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 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 $775 across 36 hospitalsWA$775Idaho: median $1,038 across 10 hospitalsID$1,038Montana: 5 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 $479 across 28 hospitalsMN$479Illinois: median $768 across 63 hospitalsIL$768Wisconsin: median $305 across 41 hospitalsWI$305Michigan: median $250 across 61 hospitalsMI$250New York: median $788 across 49 hospitalsNY$788Massachusetts: median $592 across 21 hospitalsMA$592Oregon: median $873 across 27 hospitalsOR$873Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,306 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,306Iowa: median $446 across 39 hospitalsIA$446Indiana: median $348 across 38 hospitalsIN$348Ohio: median $1,223 across 94 hospitalsOH$1,223Pennsylvania: median $560 across 58 hospitalsPA$560New Jersey: median $3,999 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,999Connecticut: median $1,377 across 14 hospitalsCT$1,377Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,148 across 75 hospitalsCA$1,148Utah: median $719 across 15 hospitalsUT$719Colorado: median $400 across 36 hospitalsCO$400Nebraska: median $241 across 26 hospitalsNE$241Missouri: median $392 across 40 hospitalsMO$392Kentucky: median $545 across 18 hospitalsKY$545West Virginia: median $164 across 21 hospitalsWV$164Virginia: median $1,901 across 32 hospitalsVA$1,901Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,476 across 15 hospitalsAZ$2,476New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $284 across 28 hospitalsKS$284Arkansas: median $831 across 15 hospitalsAR$831Tennessee: median $206 across 33 hospitalsTN$206North Carolina: median $513 across 30 hospitalsNC$513South Carolina: median $3,942 across 25 hospitalsSC$3,942Oklahoma: median $489 across 31 hospitalsOK$489Louisiana: median $485 across 23 hospitalsLA$485Mississippi: median $204 across 27 hospitalsMS$204Alabama: median $703 across 19 hospitalsAL$703Georgia: median $518 across 34 hospitalsGA$518Hawaii: median $112 across 10 hospitalsHI$112Texas: median $606 across 79 hospitalsTX$606Florida: median $908 across 55 hospitalsFL$908
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $617. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ33$3,999+548%$194 – $5,419
South Carolina SC25$3,942+539%$1,116 – $3,942
Arizona AZ15$2,476+301%$167 – $2,476
Virginia VA32$1,901+208%$143 – $3,102
Connecticut CT14$1,377+123%$812 – $2,154
South Dakota SD10$1,306+112%$225 – $1,306
Ohio OH94$1,223+98%$500 – $3,102
California CA75$1,148+86%$356 – $1,578
Idaho ID10$1,038+68%$588 – $2,988
Florida FL55$908+47%$876 – $2,811
Oregon OR27$873+42%$139 – $1,122
Arkansas AR15$831+35%$164 – $1,096
New York NY49$788+28%$209 – $1,993
Washington WA36$775+26%$189 – $2,820
Illinois IL63$768+24%$145 – $1,350
Utah UT15$719+16%$719 – $1,153
Alabama AL19$703+14%$248 – $2,927
Texas TX79$606−2%$554 – $1,057
Massachusetts MA21$592−4%$135 – $1,024
Pennsylvania PA58$560−9%$133 – $2,827
Kentucky KY18$545−12%$105 – $2,380
Georgia GA34$518−16%$447 – $1,526
North Carolina NC30$513−17%$189 – $1,378
Oklahoma OK31$489−21%$68 – $2,101
Louisiana LA23$485−21%$188 – $937
Minnesota MN28$479−22%$157 – $692
Iowa IA39$446−28%$151 – $1,545
Colorado CO36$400−35%$273 – $1,341
Missouri MO40$392−37%$248 – $2,250
Indiana IN38$348−44%$127 – $1,006
Wisconsin WI41$305−51%$189 – $705
Kansas KS28$284−54%$98 – $477
Michigan MI61$250−59%$73 – $1,452
Nebraska NE26$241−61%$109 – $509
Tennessee TN33$206−67%$137 – $1,144
Mississippi MS27$204−67%$117 – $410
West Virginia WV21$164−73%$60 – $838
Hawaii HI10$112−82%$94 – $367
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $617.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,054$725$227 – $1,796
Children’s22$1,517$245 – $11,286
Critical access290$305$122 – $1,063
Ownership
For-profit102$710$273 – $2,371
Government235$499$148 – $1,524
Non-profit1,029$642$183 – $1,680
System affiliation
Part of a system1,120$683$189 – $1,741
Independent254$413$136 – $1,368

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,130
Median cash price$617
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

1,000 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $683 and the average of the middle 60% is $777; most fall between $189 and $1,689.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,000 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$273$683$1,406$2,868

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($122 vs $2,868).

Of the 1,111 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,000 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,374 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,566 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,374
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
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 — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code1,566

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 Sub Grft F/S/N/H/F/G/M/D >= 100scm Adl 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Skin substitute graft, face/hands/feet, extra 100 sq cm (CPT 15278) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15278-skin-substitute-graft-face-hands-feet-extra-100-sq-cm