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Removal of both stitches and staples without anesthesia

CPT 15854the billing code this page is about

Taking out both sutures and staples from a healed wound in the same session without anesthesia; this add-on charge is billed along with the office or clinic visit at which the removal is done.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,091 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $26 and $247 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,091
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,091 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
$18$29$60$189$707

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 39× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $707).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $22: 92 hospitals$14$22 – $34: 174 hospitals$34 – $52: 172 hospitals$34$52 – $81: 118 hospitals$81 – $125: 142 hospitals$81$125 – $194: 79 hospitals$194 – $300: 61 hospitals$194$300 – $464: 40 hospitals$464 – $718: 54 hospitals$464$718 – $1,112: 53 hospitals$718median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (985 of 1,091 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$2292
$22$34174
$34$52172
$52$81118
$81$125142
$125$19479
$194$30061
$300$46440
$464$71854
$718$1,11253

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $73 across 34 hospitalsWA$73Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $27 across 13 hospitalsMT$27North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $94 across 37 hospitalsMN$94Illinois: median $46 across 34 hospitalsIL$46Wisconsin: median $60 across 38 hospitalsWI$60Michigan: median $49 across 52 hospitalsMI$49New York: median $32 across 40 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $51 across 12 hospitalsMA$51Oregon: median $38 across 28 hospitalsOR$38Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $40 across 25 hospitalsIA$40Indiana: median $38 across 28 hospitalsIN$38Ohio: median $64 across 56 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $39 across 54 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: median $3,986 across 20 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $195 across 65 hospitalsCA$195Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $98 across 13 hospitalsCO$98Nebraska: median $40 across 11 hospitalsNE$40Missouri: median $67 across 28 hospitalsMO$67Kentucky: median $126 across 20 hospitalsKY$126West Virginia: median $42 across 18 hospitalsWV$42Virginia: median $95 across 36 hospitalsVA$95Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $48 across 28 hospitalsAZ$48New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $27 across 15 hospitalsKS$27Arkansas: median $475 across 13 hospitalsAR$475Tennessee: median $95 across 29 hospitalsTN$95North Carolina: median $30 across 16 hospitalsNC$30South Carolina: median $248 across 24 hospitalsSC$248Oklahoma: median $25 across 17 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $11 across 21 hospitalsLA$11Mississippi: median $68 across 32 hospitalsMS$68Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $72 across 33 hospitalsGA$72Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $100 across 72 hospitalsTX$100Florida: median $212 across 41 hospitalsFL$212
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ20$3,986+6566%$612 – $5,419
Arkansas AR13$475+693%$28 – $491
South Carolina SC24$248+315%$23 – $3,787
Florida FL41$212+255%$25 – $493
California CA65$195+227%$35 – $470
Kentucky KY20$126+111%$28 – $189
Texas TX72$100+67%$82 – $1,317
Colorado CO13$98+63%$49 – $148
Tennessee TN29$95+59%$52 – $156
Virginia VA36$95+59%$48 – $863
Minnesota MN37$94+58%$25 – $101
Washington WA34$73+21%$29 – $169
Georgia GA33$72+21%$48 – $122
Mississippi MS32$68+13%$28 – $171
Missouri MO28$67+12%$22 – $573
Ohio OH56$64+7%$40 – $352
Wisconsin WI38$600%$56 – $103
Massachusetts MA12$51−14%$26 – $202
Michigan MI52$49−18%$17 – $140
Arizona AZ28$48−20%$16 – $83
Illinois IL34$46−23%$28 – $52
West Virginia WV18$42−30%$18 – $247
Iowa IA25$40−33%$25 – $40
Nebraska NE11$40−33%$20 – $309
Pennsylvania PA54$39−35%$28 – $187
Oregon OR28$38−36%$26 – $78
Indiana IN28$38−37%$28 – $60
New York NY40$32−47%$19 – $125
North Carolina NC16$30−50%$11 – $70
Kansas KS15$27−55%$12 – $41
Montana MT13$27−55%$23 – $46
Oklahoma OK17$25−58%$20 – $353
Louisiana LA21$11−82%$7 – $31
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care812$77$26 – $352
Children’s27$67$56 – $92
Critical access248$42$25 – $116
Ownership
For-profit87$64$28 – $171
Government162$55$27 – $160
Non-profit838$60$26 – $301
System affiliation
Part of a system953$68$26 – $300
Independent138$40$24 – $101

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$104
Median cash price$60
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

833 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $27 and $223.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 833 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
$20$29$64$187$750

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 38× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $750).

Of the 889 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 833 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 9 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,091 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,199 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,091
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded11
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,199

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Sutures&Staples Not Requiring Anesthesia.

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 both stitches and staples without anesthesia (CPT 15854) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15854-removal-of-both-stitches-and-staples-without-anesthesia