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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of precancerous skin spots, 2nd to 14th

CPT 17003the billing code this page is about

Freezing, burning, or chemical destruction of precancerous skin growths such as actinic keratoses; billed once for each lesion from the second through the fourteenth, in addition to the first lesion.

Hospitals typically charge $31 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,559 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $39. Most fall between $11 and $105 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,559
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,559 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
$6$13$31$83$230

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 38× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $230).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 73 hospitals$4$6 – $9: 112 hospitals$9 – $15: 207 hospitals$9$15 – $25: 207 hospitals$25 – $40: 225 hospitals$25$40 – $65: 170 hospitals$65 – $106: 181 hospitals$65$106 – $171: 102 hospitals$171 – $278: 78 hospitals$171$278 – $450: 52 hospitals$278median $31price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,407 of 1,559 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$673
$6$9112
$9$15207
$15$25207
$25$40225
$40$65170
$65$106181
$106$171102
$171$27878
$278$45052

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $31.

Alaska: median $60 across 13 hospitalsAK$60Maine: median $11 across 16 hospitalsME$11Vermont: median $19 across 11 hospitalsVT$19New Hampshire: median $14 across 14 hospitalsNH$14Washington: median $22 across 41 hospitalsWA$22Idaho: median $23 across 15 hospitalsID$23Montana: median $11 across 24 hospitalsMT$11North Dakota: median $18 across 22 hospitalsND$18Minnesota: median $33 across 54 hospitalsMN$33Illinois: median $38 across 53 hospitalsIL$38Wisconsin: median $20 across 65 hospitalsWI$20Michigan: median $20 across 54 hospitalsMI$20New York: median $28 across 64 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $187 across 25 hospitalsMA$187Oregon: median $12 across 37 hospitalsOR$12Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $23 across 23 hospitalsSD$23Iowa: median $20 across 70 hospitalsIA$20Indiana: median $26 across 35 hospitalsIN$26Ohio: median $83 across 60 hospitalsOH$83Pennsylvania: median $62 across 53 hospitalsPA$62New Jersey: median $995 across 24 hospitalsNJ$995Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $96 across 73 hospitalsCA$96Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $17 across 32 hospitalsCO$17Nebraska: median $16 across 52 hospitalsNE$16Missouri: median $25 across 46 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: median $41 across 31 hospitalsKY$41West Virginia: median $24 across 30 hospitalsWV$24Virginia: median $72 across 30 hospitalsVA$72Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $20 across 58 hospitalsKS$20Arkansas: median $14 across 12 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $28 across 25 hospitalsTN$28North Carolina: median $78 across 28 hospitalsNC$78South Carolina: median $105 across 28 hospitalsSC$105Oklahoma: median $6 across 32 hospitalsOK$6Louisiana: median $25 across 26 hospitalsLA$25Mississippi: median $36 across 29 hospitalsMS$36Alabama: median $24 across 14 hospitalsAL$24Georgia: median $74 across 40 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $53 across 99 hospitalsTX$53Florida: median $135 across 40 hospitalsFL$135
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $31. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ24$995+3155%$180 – $5,419
Massachusetts MA25$187+512%$29 – $342
Florida FL40$135+343%$56 – $289
South Carolina SC28$105+243%$36 – $214
California CA73$96+213%$25 – $178
Ohio OH60$83+173%$8 – $217
North Carolina NC28$78+155%$21 – $101
Georgia GA40$74+142%$51 – $1,122
Virginia VA30$72+136%$11 – $95
Pennsylvania PA53$62+103%$11 – $115
Alaska AK13$60+97%$8 – $86
Texas TX99$53+73%$17 – $103
Kentucky KY31$41+33%$20 – $234
Illinois IL53$38+23%$16 – $104
Mississippi MS29$36+17%$20 – $115
Minnesota MN54$33+8%$8 – $81
New York NY64$28−8%$10 – $99
Tennessee TN25$28−10%$7 – $60
Indiana IN35$26−15%$17 – $60
Louisiana LA26$25−18%$16 – $76
Missouri MO46$25−19%$9 – $55
West Virginia WV30$24−20%$4 – $41
Alabama AL14$24−23%$4 – $296
South Dakota SD23$23−24%$11 – $39
Idaho ID15$23−26%$13 – $206
Washington WA41$22−29%$13 – $101
Michigan MI54$20−33%$4 – $39
Wisconsin WI65$20−34%$10 – $52
Kansas KS58$20−35%$8 – $35
Iowa IA70$20−36%$14 – $41
Vermont VT11$19−38%$16 – $26
North Dakota ND22$18−41%$5 – $24
Colorado CO32$17−43%$12 – $48
Nebraska NE52$16−47%$10 – $50
Arkansas AR12$14−53%$12 – $63
New Hampshire NH14$14−54%$11 – $35
Oregon OR37$12−60%$6 – $29
Maine ME16$11−63%$8 – $29
Montana MT24$11−64%$6 – $34
Oklahoma OK32$6−79%$4 – $115
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $31.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care948$45$12 – $164
Children’s35$125$17 – $431
Critical access574$20$9 – $48
Ownership
For-profit90$53$12 – $206
Government382$25$10 – $74
Non-profit1,085$31$11 – $116
System affiliation
Part of a system1,202$32$11 – $116
Independent357$22$8 – $72

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$47
Median cash price$31
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

991 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $37 and the average of the middle 60% is $49; most fall between $12 and $116.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 991 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
$7$15$37$97$217

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $217).

Of the 1,092 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 991 gave a usable cash price; 42 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,559 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,740 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,559
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded95
Hospitals that filed this code1,740

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 Excision of skin lesion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Destruction Premalignant Lesion 2-14 Ea.

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, “Destruction of precancerous skin spots, 2nd to 14th (CPT 17003) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17003-destruction-of-precancerous-skin-spots-2nd-to-14th