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

Removal of excess skin and fat from the thigh

CPT 15832the billing code this page is about

Surgical excision of hanging or excess skin and the fatty tissue beneath it from the thigh.

Hospitals typically charge $3,128 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 399 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,115. Most fall between $1,556 and $5,741 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
399
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 399 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
$1,225$1,789$3,128$4,820$7,529

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,225 vs $7,529).

How the prices are spread

$782 – $1,025: 18 hospitals$782$1,025 – $1,344: 12 hospitals$1,344 – $1,762: 49 hospitals$1,344$1,762 – $2,309: 68 hospitals$2,309 – $3,027: 29 hospitals$2,309$3,027 – $3,968: 65 hospitals$3,968 – $5,201: 52 hospitals$3,968$5,201 – $6,817: 20 hospitals$6,817 – $8,936: 44 hospitals$6,817$8,936 – $11,714: 4 hospitals$8,936median $3,128price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (361 of 399 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$782$1,02518
$1,025$1,34412
$1,344$1,76249
$1,762$2,30968
$2,309$3,02729
$3,027$3,96865
$3,968$5,20152
$5,201$6,81720
$6,817$8,93644
$8,936$11,7144

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$3,128
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $3,128.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,199 across 17 hospitalsMN$5,199Illinois: median $2,270 across 12 hospitalsIL$2,270Wisconsin: median $1,820 across 23 hospitalsWI$1,820Michigan: median $3,782 across 18 hospitalsMI$3,782New York: median $3,387 across 27 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,216 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,216Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,270 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,270Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,675 across 15 hospitalsOH$3,675Pennsylvania: median $1,940 across 24 hospitalsPA$1,940New Jersey: median $4,276 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,276Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,877 across 32 hospitalsCA$6,877Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,510 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,510Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,075 across 25 hospitalsTX$4,075Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,128. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$6,877+120%$1,681 – $6,877
Minnesota MN17$5,199+66%$2,140 – $5,199
New Jersey NJ30$4,276+37%$3,168 – $5,339
Texas TX25$4,075+30%$2,981 – $4,075
Michigan MI18$3,782+21%$1,789 – $3,994
Ohio OH15$3,675+17%$1,526 – $3,743
New York NY27$3,387+8%$2,541 – $3,448
Iowa IA17$2,270−27%$2,194 – $2,270
Illinois IL12$2,270−27%$1,661 – $2,275
Oregon OR11$2,216−29%$1,713 – $2,216
Pennsylvania PA24$1,940−38%$601 – $5,393
Wisconsin WI23$1,820−42%$1,820 – $3,505
Oklahoma OK12$1,510−52%$1,510 – $1,510
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $3,128.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care328$3,350$1,550 – $6,721
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$2,270$1,644 – $4,075
Ownership
For-profit45$2,828$1,790 – $7,898
Government56$2,677$1,523 – $3,782
Non-profit298$3,209$1,550 – $5,549
System affiliation
Part of a system324$3,387$1,713 – $6,721
Independent75$2,486$1,374 – $3,743

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,751
Median cash price$3,128
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,275 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,585; most fall between $1,510 and $5,000.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 232 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
$1,225$1,580$2,275$4,075$6,877

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,225 vs $6,877).

Of the 251 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 232 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

399 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 426 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted399
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code426

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 Excision Excessive Skin & Subq Tissue Thigh.

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, “Removal of excess skin and fat from the thigh (CPT 15832) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15832-removal-of-excess-skin-and-fat-from-the-thigh