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

Removal of excess fat and skin under the chin

CPT 15838the billing code this page is about

Surgical excision of the excess fat pad and skin in the area beneath the chin.

Hospitals typically charge $2,283 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 268 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,328. Most fall between $1,062 and $4,326 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
268
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 268 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
$804$1,175$2,283$3,626$5,124

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($804 vs $5,124).

How the prices are spread

$520 – $662: 11 hospitals$520$662 – $843: 13 hospitals$843 – $1,074: 24 hospitals$843$1,074 – $1,368: 22 hospitals$1,368 – $1,742: 30 hospitals$1,368$1,742 – $2,218: 22 hospitals$2,218 – $2,825: 26 hospitals$2,218$2,825 – $3,598: 40 hospitals$3,598 – $4,582: 19 hospitals$3,598$4,582 – $5,835: 37 hospitals$4,582median $2,283price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (244 of 268 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$520$66211
$662$84313
$843$1,07424
$1,074$1,36822
$1,368$1,74230
$1,742$2,21822
$2,218$2,82526
$2,825$3,59840
$3,598$4,58219
$4,582$5,83537

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,283
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $2,283.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,160 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,160Wisconsin: 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 $3,387 across 22 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,586 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,586Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,145 across 10 hospitalsOH$2,145Pennsylvania: median $1,395 across 20 hospitalsPA$1,395New Jersey: median $3,371 across 28 hospitalsNJ$3,371Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,124 across 28 hospitalsCA$5,124Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 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: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,062 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,062Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,611 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,611Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,283. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA28$5,124+124%$1,818 – $5,124
New York NY22$3,387+48%$2,968 – $3,448
New Jersey NJ28$3,371+48%$3,128 – $5,339
Texas TX22$2,611+14%$2,425 – $2,611
Ohio OH10$2,145−6%$1,373 – $2,389
Iowa IA14$1,586−31%$1,586 – $1,586
Pennsylvania PA20$1,395−39%$402 – $4,444
Illinois IL10$1,160−49%$804 – $1,245
Oklahoma OK13$1,062−53%$1,062 – $3,679
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,283.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care236$2,436$1,062 – $4,350
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$1,586$804 – $4,784
Ownership
For-profit30$2,065$804 – $4,191
Government35$1,901$1,160 – $3,387
Non-profit202$2,436$1,062 – $4,839
System affiliation
Part of a system219$2,611$1,062 – $4,784
Independent49$1,857$1,012 – $3,758

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,346
Median cash price$2,283
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

158 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,818 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,627; most fall between $1,062 and $5,124.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 158 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
$804$1,062$1,818$3,679$5,124

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($804 vs $5,124).

Of the 168 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 158 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

268 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 286 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted268
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code286

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 Exc Excsv Skin & Subq Tissue Submental Fat Pad.

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, “Removal of excess fat and skin under the chin (CPT 15838) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15838-removal-of-excess-fat-and-skin-under-the-chin