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

Removal of excess skin and fat from the hip

CPT 15834the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $2,873 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 283 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,914. Most fall between $1,462 and $5,231 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
283
States
41
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 283 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
$1,075$1,620$2,873$4,599$5,855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,075 vs $5,855).

How the prices are spread

$767 – $971: 13 hospitals$767$971 – $1,231: 16 hospitals$1,231 – $1,560: 24 hospitals$1,231$1,560 – $1,976: 24 hospitals$1,976 – $2,504: 42 hospitals$1,976$2,504 – $3,173: 29 hospitals$3,173 – $4,021: 43 hospitals$3,173$4,021 – $5,095: 17 hospitals$5,095 – $6,456: 36 hospitals$5,095$6,456 – $8,181: 13 hospitals$6,456median $2,873price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (257 of 283 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$767$97113
$971$1,23116
$1,231$1,56024
$1,560$1,97624
$1,976$2,50442
$2,504$3,17329
$3,173$4,02143
$4,021$5,09517
$5,095$6,45636
$6,456$8,18113

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,873
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $2,873.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,231 across 10 hospitalsMN$5,231Illinois: median $1,595 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,595Wisconsin: median $3,563 across 15 hospitalsWI$3,563Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $3,387 across 21 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,650 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,650Nevada: 2 hospitals 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: median $2,202 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,202Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,975 across 11 hospitalsOH$2,975Pennsylvania: median $2,094 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,094New Jersey: median $4,627 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,734 across 27 hospitalsCA$5,734Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,462 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,462Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,448 across 21 hospitalsTX$2,448Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,873. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$5,734+100%$1,909 – $5,734
Minnesota MN10$5,231+82%$4,458 – $5,231
New Jersey NJ29$4,627+61%$3,168 – $7,567
Wisconsin WI15$3,563+24%$3,563 – $8,181
New York NY21$3,387+18%$2,290 – $3,448
Ohio OH11$2,975+4%$1,661 – $3,164
Texas TX21$2,448−15%$2,448 – $2,448
Iowa IA14$2,202−23%$2,202 – $2,202
Pennsylvania PA21$2,094−27%$578 – $4,839
Oregon OR10$1,650−43%$1,650 – $2,150
Illinois IL10$1,595−44%$1,120 – $1,883
Oklahoma OK12$1,462−49%$1,462 – $1,462
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,873.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care236$2,913$1,462 – $5,231
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$2,628$1,498 – $7,765
Ownership
For-profit29$2,444$1,120 – $4,599
Government34$2,592$1,448 – $3,387
Non-profit220$3,128$1,462 – $5,734
System affiliation
Part of a system241$3,164$1,462 – $5,419
Independent42$2,189$1,395 – $3,749

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,703
Median cash price$2,873
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

143 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,202 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,376; most fall between $1,294 and $4,784.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 143 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
$1,054$1,462$2,202$3,641$5,734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,054 vs $5,734).

Of the 154 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 143 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

283 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 301 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted283
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 code301

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 OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Excessive Skin & Subq Tissue Hip.

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 hip (CPT 15834) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15834-removal-of-excess-skin-and-fat-from-the-hip