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

Liposuction of the trunk

CPT 15877the billing code this page is about

Suction-assisted removal of fat through small incisions in the trunk, such as the abdomen, back, or flanks.

Hospitals typically charge $3,848 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 492 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,878. Most fall between $1,700 and $7,328 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
492
States
49
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 492 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
$1,300$2,000$3,848$6,889$11,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,300 vs $11,301).

How the prices are spread

$920 – $1,253: 20 hospitals$920$1,253 – $1,708: 55 hospitals$1,708 – $2,327: 57 hospitals$1,708$2,327 – $3,171: 57 hospitals$3,171 – $4,321: 63 hospitals$3,171$4,321 – $5,888: 73 hospitals$5,888 – $8,023: 52 hospitals$5,888$8,023 – $10,933: 24 hospitals$10,933 – $14,897: 29 hospitals$10,933$14,897 – $20,299: 14 hospitals$14,897median $3,848price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (444 of 492 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$920$1,25320
$1,253$1,70855
$1,708$2,32757
$2,327$3,17157
$3,171$4,32163
$4,321$5,88873
$5,888$8,02352
$8,023$10,93324
$10,933$14,89729
$14,897$20,29914

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$3,848
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $3,848.

Alaska: 3 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 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 $4,704 across 17 hospitalsMN$4,704Illinois: median $1,802 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,802Wisconsin: median $3,986 across 29 hospitalsWI$3,986Michigan: median $2,847 across 30 hospitalsMI$2,847New York: median $4,332 across 48 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,272 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,272Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,016 across 20 hospitalsOH$3,016Pennsylvania: median $3,622 across 27 hospitalsPA$3,622New Jersey: median $4,627 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,322 across 46 hospitalsCA$7,322Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,223 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,223Maryland: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,888 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,888Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,653 across 10 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,384 across 28 hospitalsTX$3,384Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,848. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$7,322+90%$3,948 – $11,301
Georgia GA10$6,653+73%$3,083 – $6,653
Minnesota MN17$4,704+22%$1,618 – $4,704
New Jersey NJ31$4,627+20%$4,052 – $6,839
New York NY48$4,332+13%$1,786 – $4,595
Wisconsin WI29$3,986+4%$1,700 – $6,914
Pennsylvania PA27$3,622−6%$1,516 – $6,898
Texas TX28$3,384−12%$3,021 – $6,556
Ohio OH20$3,016−22%$1,875 – $29,131
Oklahoma OK13$2,888−25%$2,888 – $5,899
Michigan MI30$2,847−26%$1,700 – $4,873
Iowa IA19$2,272−41%$2,272 – $4,953
Virginia VA10$2,223−42%$435 – $17,387
Illinois IL11$1,802−53%$1,610 – $2,760
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $3,848.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care424$4,052$1,779 – $8,103
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$2,760$1,610 – $4,704
Ownership
For-profit57$3,797$1,610 – $11,319
Government60$3,681$1,300 – $6,104
Non-profit374$3,986$1,768 – $7,322
System affiliation
Part of a system412$3,986$1,737 – $7,464
Independent80$3,162$1,537 – $7,100

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,693
Median cash price$3,848
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

246 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,545 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,350; most fall between $1,518 and $7,322.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 246 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
$1,002$1,610$2,545$6,189$9,277

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,002 vs $9,277).

Of the 269 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 246 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

492 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 529 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted492
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code529

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 Suction Assisted Lipectomy Trunk.

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, “Liposuction of the trunk (CPT 15877) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15877-liposuction-of-the-trunk