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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Sit-bone pressure sore removal with skin flap closure

CPT 15944the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a pressure sore over the ischium, the bone you sit on, with the wound covered using a skin flap; no bone is removed.

Hospitals typically charge $3,049 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 250 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,853. Most fall between $1,333 and $4,780 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
250
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 250 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
$807$1,529$3,049$4,332$8,768

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($807 vs $8,768).

How the prices are spread

$683 – $904: 14 hospitals$683$904 – $1,197: 15 hospitals$1,197 – $1,585: 34 hospitals$1,197$1,585 – $2,098: 19 hospitals$2,098 – $2,778: 27 hospitals$2,098$2,778 – $3,678: 37 hospitals$3,678 – $4,869: 43 hospitals$3,678$4,869 – $6,447: 17 hospitals$6,447 – $8,536: 6 hospitals$6,447$8,536 – $11,301: 26 hospitals$8,536median $3,049price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (238 of 250 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$683$90414
$904$1,19715
$1,197$1,58534
$1,585$2,09819
$2,098$2,77827
$2,778$3,67837
$3,678$4,86943
$4,869$6,44717
$6,447$8,5366
$8,536$11,30126

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,620
Median cash price$3,049
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $3,049.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,191 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,191Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,333 across 12 hospitalsMI$1,333New York: median $4,332 across 21 hospitalsNY$4,332Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 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 $2,242 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,242Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $709 across 18 hospitalsPA$709New Jersey: median $4,311 across 23 hospitalsNJ$4,311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,301 across 23 hospitalsCA$11,301Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals 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 $1,529 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,529Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,220 across 21 hospitalsTX$3,220Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,049. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$11,301+271%$11,301 – $11,301
New York NY21$4,332+42%$3,620 – $4,332
New Jersey NJ23$4,311+41%$4,001 – $5,419
Texas TX21$3,220+6%$3,220 – $3,220
Iowa IA16$2,242−26%$2,242 – $2,242
Oklahoma OK13$1,529−50%$1,529 – $1,529
Michigan MI12$1,333−56%$1,333 – $4,873
Illinois IL11$1,191−61%$700 – $1,668
Pennsylvania PA18$709−77%$578 – $6,189
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not 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
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $3,049.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care207$3,220$1,415 – $4,873
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$2,183$998 – $3,260
Ownership
For-profit24$2,579$700 – $5,112
Government36$1,675$1,374 – $4,332
Non-profit190$3,220$1,444 – $4,873
System affiliation
Part of a system203$3,220$1,333 – $4,881
Independent47$2,027$1,415 – $3,779

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,802
Median cash price$3,049
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

157 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,242 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,982; most fall between $1,333 and $8,768.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 157 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
$930$1,529$2,242$5,820$11,301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($930 vs $11,301).

Of the 177 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 157 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 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

250 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 268 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted250
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code268

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 23, 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 Excision of skin lesion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Ischial Pressure Ulcer W/Skin Flap Closure.

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, “Sit-bone pressure sore removal with skin flap closure (CPT 15944) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15944-sit-bone-pressure-sore-removal-with-skin-flap-closure