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

Light skin sanding of any body area

CPT 15783the billing code this page is about

Superficial mechanical sanding of the top layer of skin at any site on the body, such as for fine wrinkling or pigment change.

Hospitals typically charge $701 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 322 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $765. Most fall between $437 and $1,232 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
322
States
45
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 322 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
$248$467$701$1,146$1,905

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($248 vs $1,905).

How the prices are spread

$195 – $268: 22 hospitals$195$268 – $367: 15 hospitals$367 – $504: 53 hospitals$367$504 – $692: 55 hospitals$692 – $950: 52 hospitals$692$950 – $1,304: 60 hospitals$1,304 – $1,789: 16 hospitals$1,304$1,789 – $2,456: 14 hospitals$2,456 – $3,371: 0 hospitals$2,456$3,371 – $4,627: 4 hospitals$3,371median $701price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (291 of 322 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$195$26822
$268$36715
$367$50453
$504$69255
$692$95052
$950$1,30460
$1,304$1,78916
$1,789$2,45614
$2,456$3,3710
$3,371$4,6274

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$701
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.69×

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 $701.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $508 across 14 hospitalsIL$508Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $473 across 21 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $828 across 10 hospitalsOR$828Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,145 across 13 hospitalsIA$1,145Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $701 across 14 hospitalsOH$701Pennsylvania: median $270 across 25 hospitalsPA$270New 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 $1,232 across 26 hospitalsCA$1,232Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 2 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: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $582 across 15 hospitalsOK$582Louisiana: median $286 across 17 hospitalsLA$286Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $791 across 21 hospitalsTX$791Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $701. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ29$4,627+561%$443 – $6,824
California CA26$1,232+76%$1,232 – $1,232
Iowa IA13$1,145+63%$1,145 – $1,145
Oregon OR10$828+18%$828 – $1,098
Texas TX21$791+13%$719 – $1,152
Ohio OH14$7010%$195 – $1,387
Oklahoma OK15$582−17%$582 – $727
Illinois IL14$508−27%$235 – $1,153
New York NY21$473−33%$473 – $507
Louisiana LA17$286−59%$207 – $730
Pennsylvania PA25$270−61%$180 – $620
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $701.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care277$670$410 – $1,232
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$719$485 – $1,098
Ownership
For-profit27$559$508 – $791
Government47$672$473 – $1,268
Non-profit247$719$411 – $1,232
System affiliation
Part of a system266$706$442 – $1,232
Independent56$672$371 – $1,053

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,199
Median cash price$701
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

180 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $828 and the average of the middle 60% is $874; most fall between $508 and $1,268.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 180 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
$378$528$828$1,232$2,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($378 vs $2,200).

Of the 210 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 180 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

322 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 345 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted322
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code345

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Dermabras Rx Skin Superficial.

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, “Light skin sanding of any body area (CPT 15783) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15783-light-skin-sanding-of-any-body-area