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

Facelift with deep tissue (SMAS) flap lift

CPT 15829the billing code this page is about

Facelift in which the surgeon lifts and repositions the deeper fibrous and muscular layer of the face, not just the skin.

Hospitals typically charge $4,595 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 314 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,117. Most fall between $2,776 and $8,893 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
314
States
43
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 314 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
$2,144$3,420$4,595$8,142$11,600

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,144 vs $11,600).

How the prices are spread

$1,318 – $1,741: 8 hospitals$1,318$1,741 – $2,299: 18 hospitals$2,299 – $3,035: 37 hospitals$2,299$3,035 – $4,008: 27 hospitals$4,008 – $5,293: 92 hospitals$4,008$5,293 – $6,989: 33 hospitals$6,989 – $9,230: 27 hospitals$6,989$9,230 – $12,188: 30 hospitals$12,188 – $16,095: 6 hospitals$12,188$16,095 – $21,253: 10 hospitals$16,095median $4,595price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (288 of 314 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,318$1,7418
$1,741$2,29918
$2,299$3,03537
$3,035$4,00827
$4,008$5,29392
$5,293$6,98933
$6,989$9,23027
$9,230$12,18830
$12,188$16,0956
$16,095$21,25310

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: 3 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $5,756 across 11 hospitalsIL$5,756Wisconsin: median $4,879 across 15 hospitalsWI$4,879Michigan: median $3,000 across 23 hospitalsMI$3,000New York: median $4,424 across 31 hospitalsNY$4,424Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,318 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,318Nevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,516 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,516New Jersey: median $4,881 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 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 29 hospitalsCA$11,301Utah: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $3,524 across 13 hospitalsOK$3,524Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,181 across 21 hospitalsTX$5,181Florida: 9 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 CA29$11,301+146%$6,761 – $11,301
Illinois IL11$5,756+25%$2,487 – $6,893
Texas TX21$5,181+13%$4,101 – $6,216
New Jersey NJ30$4,881+6%$4,052 – $9,557
Wisconsin WI15$4,879+6%$4,879 – $16,992
New York NY31$4,424−4%$4,332 – $4,595
Oklahoma OK13$3,524−23%$3,524 – $6,608
Michigan MI23$3,000−35%$2,776 – $4,873
Pennsylvania PA19$2,516−45%$2,050 – $6,898
Oregon OR10$1,318−71%$1,318 – $2,133
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not 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
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not 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
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 care278$4,595$2,776 – $9,557
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access34$4,879$2,487 – $8,768
Ownership
For-profit41$4,230$2,487 – $8,893
Government39$4,332$3,292 – $8,142
Non-profit233$4,627$2,776 – $10,991
System affiliation
Part of a system272$4,595$2,750 – $10,145
Independent42$4,804$3,675 – $6,845

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,460
Median cash price$4,595
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

153 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,101 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,763; most fall between $2,487 and $8,768.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 153 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
$1,700$2,487$4,101$7,570$11,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,700 vs $11,301).

Of the 163 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 153 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

314 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 — counted314
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 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 Smas Flap.

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, “Facelift with deep tissue (SMAS) flap lift (CPT 15829) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15829-facelift-with-deep-tissue-smas-flap-lift