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

Neck lift with tightening of the neck muscle

CPT 15825the billing code this page is about

Surgical lifting of neck skin combined with tightening of the platysma muscle band in the neck.

Hospitals typically charge $4,595 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 300 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,715. Most fall between $2,133 and $9,456 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
300
States
44
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 300 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
$1,475$2,555$4,595$8,459$11,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,475 vs $11,301).

How the prices are spread

$1,127 – $1,524: 18 hospitals$1,127$1,524 – $2,061: 19 hospitals$2,061 – $2,787: 36 hospitals$2,061$2,787 – $3,768: 13 hospitals$3,768 – $5,096: 93 hospitals$3,768$5,096 – $6,892: 24 hospitals$6,892 – $9,320: 22 hospitals$6,892$9,320 – $12,603: 35 hospitals$12,603 – $17,044: 4 hospitals$12,603$17,044 – $23,049: 7 hospitals$17,044median $4,595price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (271 of 300 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,127$1,52418
$1,524$2,06119
$2,061$2,78736
$2,787$3,76813
$3,768$5,09693
$5,096$6,89224
$6,892$9,32022
$9,320$12,60335
$12,603$17,0444
$17,044$23,0497

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$4,595
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $4,595.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth 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 $2,690 across 11 hospitalsIL$2,690Wisconsin: median $4,879 across 16 hospitalsWI$4,879Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $4,424 across 34 hospitalsNY$4,424Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,502 across 10 hospitalsOH$3,502Pennsylvania: median $2,441 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,441New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 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 $11,301 across 30 hospitalsCA$11,301Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 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 $1,670 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,670Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $4,732 across 21 hospitalsTX$4,732Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,595. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA30$11,301+146%$2,531 – $11,301
Wisconsin WI16$4,879+6%$4,879 – $8,955
Texas TX21$4,732+3%$4,732 – $5,868
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+1%$4,052 – $8,504
New York NY34$4,424−4%$4,332 – $4,595
Ohio OH10$3,502−24%$1,567 – $3,799
Illinois IL11$2,690−41%$2,555 – $3,973
Pennsylvania PA21$2,441−47%$1,364 – $6,898
Oklahoma OK13$1,670−64%$1,670 – $6,608
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $4,595.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care265$4,585$2,133 – $10,145
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$4,732$2,133 – $8,768
Ownership
For-profit38$4,019$2,104 – $15,657
Government37$4,332$2,668 – $8,890
Non-profit225$4,595$2,133 – $9,126
System affiliation
Part of a system251$4,595$2,223 – $9,784
Independent49$3,973$1,800 – $6,167

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,127
Median cash price$4,595
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

144 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,768 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,756; most fall between $1,670 and $8,459.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 144 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
$1,284$1,925$3,768$6,266$11,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,284 vs $11,301).

Of the 159 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 144 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

300 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 330 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted300
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code330

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 Rhytidectomy Neck W/Platysmal Tightening.

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, “Neck lift with tightening of the neck muscle (CPT 15825) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15825-neck-lift-with-tightening-of-the-neck-muscle