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Procedure price report · Skin graft

Muscle or muscle-and-skin flap of the trunk

CPT 15734the billing code this page is about

Reconstruction using a flap of muscle, muscle with overlying skin, or fascia with skin taken from the chest, back or abdomen and moved on its own blood vessels.

Hospitals typically charge $4,097 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 728 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,447. Most fall between $2,208 and $7,923 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
728
States
49
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 728 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
$1,554$2,538$4,097$7,322$13,820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,554 vs $13,820).

How the prices are spread

$998 – $1,370: 22 hospitals$998$1,370 – $1,883: 45 hospitals$1,883 – $2,587: 90 hospitals$1,883$2,587 – $3,553: 106 hospitals$3,553 – $4,882: 152 hospitals$3,553$4,882 – $6,706: 73 hospitals$6,706 – $9,213: 89 hospitals$6,706$9,213 – $12,657: 39 hospitals$12,657 – $17,389: 21 hospitals$12,657$17,389 – $23,888: 20 hospitals$17,389median $4,097price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (657 of 728 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$998$1,37022
$1,370$1,88345
$1,883$2,58790
$2,587$3,553106
$3,553$4,882152
$4,882$6,70673
$6,706$9,21389
$9,213$12,65739
$12,657$17,38921
$17,389$23,88820

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$4,097
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $4,097.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,982 across 17 hospitalsWA$2,982Idaho: median $8,768 across 12 hospitalsID$8,768Montana: median $2,728 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,728North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $6,779 across 21 hospitalsMN$6,779Illinois: median $2,860 across 24 hospitalsIL$2,860Wisconsin: median $7,558 across 35 hospitalsWI$7,558Michigan: median $2,900 across 37 hospitalsMI$2,900New York: median $4,332 across 58 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,755 across 15 hospitalsOR$2,755Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $3,705 across 34 hospitalsIA$3,705Indiana: median $4,200 across 26 hospitalsIN$4,200Ohio: median $5,980 across 21 hospitalsOH$5,980Pennsylvania: median $2,414 across 30 hospitalsPA$2,414New Jersey: median $4,627 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,322 across 61 hospitalsCA$7,322Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $3,202 across 10 hospitalsNE$3,202Missouri: median $2,597 across 17 hospitalsMO$2,597Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,559 across 15 hospitalsWV$2,559Virginia: median $2,569 across 12 hospitalsVA$2,569Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,262 across 16 hospitalsKS$2,262Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,106 across 14 hospitalsOK$2,106Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $7,906 across 17 hospitalsGA$7,906Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,786 across 35 hospitalsTX$3,786Florida: median $6,183 across 26 hospitalsFL$6,183
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,097. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$8,768+114%$2,959 – $8,768
Georgia GA17$7,906+93%$3,418 – $7,906
Wisconsin WI35$7,558+84%$4,729 – $7,558
California CA61$7,322+79%$4,032 – $11,301
Minnesota MN21$6,779+65%$3,383 – $8,904
Florida FL26$6,183+51%$5,980 – $11,947
Ohio OH21$5,980+46%$2,983 – $25,555
New Jersey NJ33$4,627+13%$4,052 – $6,097
New York NY58$4,332+6%$1,939 – $4,595
Indiana IN26$4,200+3%$1,925 – $23,655
Texas TX35$3,786−8%$3,527 – $6,272
Iowa IA34$3,705−10%$2,318 – $4,226
Nebraska NE10$3,202−22%$1,771 – $3,657
Washington WA17$2,982−27%$2,551 – $6,582
Michigan MI37$2,900−29%$2,694 – $7,558
Illinois IL24$2,860−30%$1,925 – $5,699
Oregon OR15$2,755−33%$2,580 – $4,352
Montana MT11$2,728−33%$1,641 – $4,535
Missouri MO17$2,597−37%$2,253 – $6,616
Virginia VA12$2,569−37%$998 – $25,778
West Virginia WV15$2,559−38%$1,590 – $3,744
Pennsylvania PA30$2,414−41%$927 – $6,898
Kansas KS16$2,262−45%$1,718 – $2,635
Oklahoma OK14$2,106−49%$2,106 – $7,094
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $4,097.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care556$4,332$2,320 – $8,768
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access159$3,206$1,830 – $7,088
Ownership
For-profit75$4,535$2,106 – $10,225
Government131$3,880$2,580 – $7,010
Non-profit521$4,097$2,106 – $7,923
System affiliation
Part of a system544$4,332$2,200 – $8,730
Independent184$3,263$2,241 – $5,710

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,388
Median cash price$4,097
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

386 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,508 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,806; most fall between $1,832 and $7,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 386 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
$1,003$2,073$3,508$6,183$8,010

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,003 vs $8,010).

Of the 429 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 386 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

728 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 811 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted728
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code811

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 PR Muscle-Skin Flap,Trunk.

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, “Muscle or muscle-and-skin flap of the trunk (CPT 15734) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15734-muscle-or-muscle-and-skin-flap-of-the-trunk