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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Soft tissue graft taken by direct surgical removal

CPT 15769the billing code this page is about

Harvesting a patient's own soft tissue, such as fat, dermis or fascia, by cutting it out directly and grafting it to another site; covers tissue types not described by other graft codes.

Hospitals typically charge $3,473 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 583 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,587. Most fall between $931 and $8,768 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
583
States
48
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 583 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
$732$1,016$3,473$7,151$11,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($732 vs $11,301).

How the prices are spread

$514 – $741: 33 hospitals$514$741 – $1,069: 90 hospitals$1,069 – $1,541: 56 hospitals$1,069$1,541 – $2,222: 41 hospitals$2,222 – $3,203: 38 hospitals$2,222$3,203 – $4,618: 80 hospitals$4,618 – $6,658: 59 hospitals$4,618$6,658 – $9,600: 66 hospitals$9,600 – $13,841: 49 hospitals$9,600$13,841 – $19,955: 14 hospitals$13,841median $3,473price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (526 of 583 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$514$74133
$741$1,06990
$1,069$1,54156
$1,541$2,22241
$2,222$3,20338
$3,203$4,61880
$4,618$6,65859
$6,658$9,60066
$9,600$13,84149
$13,841$19,95514

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$3,473
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $3,473.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 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 $1,247 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,247Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,289 across 20 hospitalsMN$2,289Illinois: median $1,189 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,189Wisconsin: median $3,834 across 29 hospitalsWI$3,834Michigan: median $803 across 31 hospitalsMI$803New York: median $4,332 across 44 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $887 across 10 hospitalsOR$887Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,189 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,189Indiana: median $4,189 across 21 hospitalsIN$4,189Ohio: median $2,936 across 22 hospitalsOH$2,936Pennsylvania: median $3,622 across 23 hospitalsPA$3,622New Jersey: median $4,881 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 3 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 52 hospitalsCA$7,322Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,962 across 11 hospitalsWV$3,962Virginia: median $2,443 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,443Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,005 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,005Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $1,660 across 11 hospitalsMS$1,660Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,129 across 23 hospitalsGA$4,129Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,783 across 17 hospitalsTX$5,783Florida: median $5,766 across 21 hospitalsFL$5,766
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,473. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA52$7,322+111%$2,416 – $11,301
Texas TX17$5,783+67%$2,258 – $9,978
Florida FL21$5,766+66%$3,675 – $14,948
New Jersey NJ31$4,881+41%$4,052 – $7,894
New York NY44$4,332+25%$1,422 – $9,188
Indiana IN21$4,189+21%$3,113 – $5,925
Georgia GA23$4,129+19%$1,098 – $9,325
West Virginia WV11$3,962+14%$1,224 – $4,760
Wisconsin WI29$3,834+10%$1,791 – $7,151
Pennsylvania PA23$3,622+4%$311 – $5,725
Ohio OH22$2,936−15%$975 – $16,518
Virginia VA10$2,443−30%$322 – $4,812
Minnesota MN20$2,289−34%$1,001 – $3,007
Mississippi MS11$1,660−52%$696 – $2,800
Washington WA11$1,247−64%$966 – $4,790
Iowa IA25$1,189−66%$1,184 – $3,473
Illinois IL23$1,189−66%$863 – $7,464
Oklahoma OK14$1,005−71%$1,005 – $7,464
Oregon OR10$887−74%$887 – $10,048
Michigan MI31$803−77%$552 – $4,873
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $3,473.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care469$4,097$975 – $9,325
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access96$1,476$825 – $5,925
Ownership
For-profit60$5,034$1,005 – $10,225
Government91$2,130$931 – $5,220
Non-profit431$3,568$937 – $8,768
System affiliation
Part of a system473$3,986$955 – $8,837
Independent110$2,035$901 – $5,329

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,417
Median cash price$3,473
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

280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,791 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,806; most fall between $863 and $7,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 280 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
$724$955$1,791$5,766$10,048

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($724 vs $10,048).

Of the 309 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 280 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

583 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 643 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted583
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code643

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Grafting of Autologous Soft Tiss by Direct Exc.

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, “Soft tissue graft taken by direct surgical removal (CPT 15769) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15769-soft-tissue-graft-taken-by-direct-surgical-removal