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

Brow lift to smooth frown lines between the eyebrows

CPT 15826the billing code this page is about

Cosmetic surgical lifting and tightening of the skin and muscle in the glabella, the area between the eyebrows, to reduce vertical frown lines.

Hospitals typically charge $4,056 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 176 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,020. Most fall between $1,338 and $7,326 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
176
States
35
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 176 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
$783$1,754$4,056$5,783$11,133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($783 vs $11,133).

How the prices are spread

$770 – $1,006: 15 hospitals$770$1,006 – $1,314: 14 hospitals$1,314 – $1,716: 7 hospitals$1,314$1,716 – $2,241: 8 hospitals$2,241 – $2,928: 7 hospitals$2,241$2,928 – $3,824: 19 hospitals$3,824 – $4,995: 48 hospitals$3,824$4,995 – $6,525: 13 hospitals$6,525 – $8,523: 8 hospitals$6,525$8,523 – $11,133: 25 hospitals$8,523median $4,056price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (164 of 176 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$770$1,00615
$1,006$1,31414
$1,314$1,7167
$1,716$2,2418
$2,241$2,9287
$2,928$3,82419
$3,824$4,99548
$4,995$6,52513
$6,525$8,5238
$8,523$11,13325

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$4,056
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $4,056.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $4,332 across 17 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $4,627 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,133 across 23 hospitalsCA$11,133Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,206 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,206Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,113 across 17 hospitalsTX$3,113Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,056. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$11,133+174%$11,133 – $11,133
New Jersey NJ28$4,627+14%$4,052 – $6,839
New York NY17$4,332+7%$4,206 – $4,332
Texas TX17$3,113−23%$3,113 – $3,113
Oklahoma OK12$1,206−70%$1,206 – $1,206
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $4,056.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care158$4,206$1,338 – $7,326
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit26$2,635$770 – $5,693
Government22$4,332$1,362 – $4,400
Non-profit128$4,206$1,754 – $8,768
System affiliation
Part of a system152$4,052$1,294 – $7,326
Independent24$4,349$1,474 – $5,244

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,189
Median cash price$4,056
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.

How complete is this

176 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 187 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted176
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code187

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 5, 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 Glabellar Frown Lines.

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, “Brow lift to smooth frown lines between the eyebrows (CPT 15826) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15826-brow-lift-to-smooth-frown-lines-between-the-eyebrows