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

Chemical peel of the face, outer skin layer

CPT 15788the billing code this page is about

Application of a chemical solution to facial skin to remove the outermost layer of skin.

Hospitals typically charge $511 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 371 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $629. Most fall between $274 and $1,075 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
371
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 371 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
$172$339$511$1,051$1,586

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($172 vs $1,586).

How the prices are spread

$108 – $167: 19 hospitals$108$167 – $257: 20 hospitals$257 – $396: 64 hospitals$257$396 – $610: 88 hospitals$610 – $940: 63 hospitals$610$940 – $1,450: 57 hospitals$1,450 – $2,235: 9 hospitals$1,450$2,235 – $3,444: 0 hospitals$3,444 – $5,309: 6 hospitals$3,444$5,309 – $8,184: 18 hospitals$5,309median $511price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (344 of 371 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$108$16719
$167$25720
$257$39664
$396$61088
$610$94063
$940$1,45057
$1,450$2,2359
$2,235$3,4440
$3,444$5,3096
$5,309$8,18418

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$511
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.23×

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 $511.

Alaska: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $417 across 16 hospitalsIL$417Wisconsin: median $819 across 16 hospitalsWI$819Michigan: median $734 across 27 hospitalsMI$734New York: median $473 across 28 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,051 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,051Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $543 across 14 hospitalsOH$543Pennsylvania: median $468 across 25 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $4,350 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,075 across 28 hospitalsCA$1,075Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $352 across 13 hospitalsOK$352Louisiana: median $187 across 15 hospitalsLA$187Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $357 across 21 hospitalsTX$357Florida: median $876 across 13 hospitalsFL$876
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $511. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ30$4,350+752%$443 – $6,839
California CA28$1,075+111%$656 – $1,075
Iowa IA14$1,051+106%$734 – $1,051
Florida FL13$876+72%$401 – $12,352
Wisconsin WI16$819+60%$348 – $819
Michigan MI27$734+44%$334 – $8,184
Ohio OH14$543+6%$290 – $779
New York NY28$473−7%$415 – $851
Pennsylvania PA25$468−8%$133 – $586
Illinois IL16$417−18%$327 – $1,561
Texas TX21$357−30%$260 – $778
Oklahoma OK13$352−31%$352 – $815
Louisiana LA15$187−63%$108 – $224
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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
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 $511.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care315$480$260 – $1,075
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access51$636$417 – $1,063
Ownership
For-profit29$417$176 – $656
Government53$473$274 – $819
Non-profit289$543$290 – $1,075
System affiliation
Part of a system312$528$290 – $1,075
Independent59$432$253 – $859

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$862
Median cash price$511
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

209 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $480 and the average of the middle 60% is $600; most fall between $312 and $1,051.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 209 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
$257$352$480$865$1,075

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($257 vs $1,075).

Of the 224 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 209 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

371 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 390 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted371
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code390

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 Chemical Peel Facial Epidermal.

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, “Chemical peel of the face, outer skin layer (CPT 15788) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15788-chemical-peel-of-the-face-outer-skin-layer