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

Liposuction of a leg

CPT 15879the billing code this page is about

Suction-assisted removal of fat through small incisions in a lower limb; the charge applies to one lower extremity treated.

Hospitals typically charge $4,332 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 405 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,026. Most fall between $1,330 and $7,144 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
405
States
48
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 405 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
$806$1,744$4,332$6,584$11,614

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($806 vs $11,614).

How the prices are spread

$688 – $973: 46 hospitals$688$973 – $1,375: 19 hospitals$1,375 – $1,944: 23 hospitals$1,375$1,944 – $2,749: 39 hospitals$2,749 – $3,887: 37 hospitals$2,749$3,887 – $5,496: 96 hospitals$5,496 – $7,772: 49 hospitals$5,496$7,772 – $10,989: 19 hospitals$10,989 – $15,537: 28 hospitals$10,989$15,537 – $21,968: 10 hospitals$15,537median $4,332price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (366 of 405 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$688$97346
$973$1,37519
$1,375$1,94423
$1,944$2,74939
$2,749$3,88737
$3,887$5,49696
$5,496$7,77249
$7,772$10,98919
$10,989$15,53728
$15,537$21,96810

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$4,332
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $4,332.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $4,869 across 28 hospitalsWI$4,869Michigan: median $2,606 across 15 hospitalsMI$2,606New York: median $4,332 across 40 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,726 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,726Nevada: 1 hospital 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 $3,040 across 16 hospitalsIA$3,040Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,016 across 16 hospitalsOH$3,016Pennsylvania: median $3,622 across 24 hospitalsPA$3,622New Jersey: median $4,627 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 2 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 $11,614 across 31 hospitalsCA$11,614Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 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: median $5,661 across 16 hospitalsVA$5,661Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $806 across 13 hospitalsOK$806Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,732 across 25 hospitalsTX$4,732Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,332. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA31$11,614+168%$2,541 – $11,614
Virginia VA16$5,661+31%$2,668 – $5,661
Wisconsin WI28$4,869+12%$789 – $6,584
Texas TX25$4,732+9%$3,466 – $5,598
New Jersey NJ32$4,627+7%$4,052 – $7,328
New York NY40$4,3320%$3,517 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA24$3,622−16%$920 – $7,489
Iowa IA16$3,040−30%$2,531 – $3,040
Ohio OH16$3,016−30%$2,439 – $7,139
Michigan MI15$2,606−40%$789 – $4,873
Oregon OR10$1,726−60%$1,726 – $2,214
Oklahoma OK13$806−81%$806 – $6,608
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not 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
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $4,332.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care348$4,332$1,726 – $8,459
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$2,214$789 – $6,482
Ownership
For-profit50$3,079$806 – $6,889
Government46$3,715$1,466 – $6,653
Non-profit308$4,350$1,618 – $7,375
System affiliation
Part of a system344$4,332$1,077 – $7,328
Independent61$3,517$1,875 – $7,114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,845
Median cash price$4,332
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

210 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,668 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,898; most fall between $806 and $6,189.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 210 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
$688$886$2,668$5,661$9,842

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($688 vs $9,842).

Of the 224 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 210 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 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

405 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 423 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted405
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code423

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 PR Suct Assis Lipectomy,Low Extrem.

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, “Liposuction of a leg (CPT 15879) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15879-liposuction-of-a-leg