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

Skin sanding of part of the face

CPT 15781the billing code this page is about

Mechanical sanding of the skin surface over one section of the face rather than the whole face.

Hospitals typically charge $972 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 376 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,044. Most fall between $592 and $1,783 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
376
States
47
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 376 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
$423$696$972$1,536$3,214

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($423 vs $3,214).

How the prices are spread

$305 – $401: 16 hospitals$305$401 – $526: 24 hospitals$526 – $692: 31 hospitals$526$692 – $909: 75 hospitals$909 – $1,194: 73 hospitals$909$1,194 – $1,569: 51 hospitals$1,569 – $2,062: 22 hospitals$1,569$2,062 – $2,710: 16 hospitals$2,710 – $3,561: 25 hospitals$2,710$3,561 – $4,680: 7 hospitals$3,561median $972price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (340 of 376 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$305$40116
$401$52624
$526$69231
$692$90975
$909$1,19473
$1,194$1,56951
$1,569$2,06222
$2,062$2,71016
$2,710$3,56125
$3,561$4,6807

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$972
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.34×

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 $972.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,187 across 15 hospitalsMN$2,187Illinois: median $704 across 17 hospitalsIL$704Wisconsin: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $972 across 24 hospitalsMI$972New York: median $833 across 20 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,344 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,344Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $893 across 15 hospitalsOH$893Pennsylvania: median $723 across 24 hospitalsPA$723New Jersey: median $4,627 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,214 across 31 hospitalsCA$3,214Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $696 across 15 hospitalsOK$696Louisiana: median $435 across 16 hospitalsLA$435Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,252 across 23 hospitalsTX$1,252Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $972. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$4,627+376%$779 – $7,182
California CA31$3,214+231%$1,549 – $3,214
Minnesota MN15$2,187+125%$961 – $2,187
Iowa IA15$1,344+38%$1,344 – $1,422
Texas TX23$1,252+29%$1,108 – $1,290
Michigan MI24$9720%$853 – $974
Ohio OH15$893−8%$423 – $1,638
New York NY20$833−14%$803 – $841
Pennsylvania PA24$723−26%$270 – $1,092
Illinois IL17$704−28%$592 – $1,245
Oklahoma OK15$696−28%$696 – $819
Louisiana LA16$435−55%$299 – $847
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $972.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care318$972$592 – $1,922
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$972$592 – $1,783
Ownership
For-profit35$999$592 – $1,491
Government53$882$653 – $1,422
Non-profit288$974$592 – $2,187
System affiliation
Part of a system315$974$592 – $2,074
Independent61$916$644 – $1,465

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,680
Median cash price$972
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

208 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,043 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,042; most fall between $592 and $1,746.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 208 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
$501$693$1,043$1,528$3,214

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($501 vs $3,214).

Of the 226 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 208 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

376 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 411 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted376
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code411

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dermabrasion Segmental Face.

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 sanding of part of the face (CPT 15781) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15781-skin-sanding-of-part-of-the-face