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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destroying 15 or more precancerous skin spots in one visit

CPT 17004the billing code this page is about

Single charge covering destruction of fifteen or more precancerous or benign skin growths treated during the same visit.

Hospitals typically charge $373 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,203 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $378. Most fall between $189 and $644 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,203
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 1,203 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
$137$222$373$553$912

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $912).

How the prices are spread

$92 – $119: 41 hospitals$92$119 – $154: 45 hospitals$154 – $200: 123 hospitals$154$200 – $260: 115 hospitals$260 – $337: 142 hospitals$260$337 – $436: 213 hospitals$436 – $566: 180 hospitals$436$566 – $734: 100 hospitals$734 – $951: 67 hospitals$734$951 – $1,234: 62 hospitals$951median $373price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,088 of 1,203 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$92$11941
$119$15445
$154$200123
$200$260115
$260$337142
$337$436213
$436$566180
$566$734100
$734$95167
$951$1,23462

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$373
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $373.

Alaska: median $745 across 10 hospitalsAK$745Maine: median $248 across 13 hospitalsME$248Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $263 across 12 hospitalsNH$263Washington: median $377 across 33 hospitalsWA$377Idaho: median $432 across 14 hospitalsID$432Montana: median $295 across 17 hospitalsMT$295North Dakota: median $368 across 14 hospitalsND$368Minnesota: median $317 across 37 hospitalsMN$317Illinois: median $377 across 42 hospitalsIL$377Wisconsin: median $349 across 54 hospitalsWI$349Michigan: median $230 across 45 hospitalsMI$230New York: median $473 across 56 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $534 across 16 hospitalsMA$534Oregon: median $286 across 31 hospitalsOR$286Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $470 across 13 hospitalsSD$470Iowa: median $346 across 52 hospitalsIA$346Indiana: median $385 across 31 hospitalsIN$385Ohio: median $521 across 47 hospitalsOH$521Pennsylvania: median $469 across 51 hospitalsPA$469New Jersey: median $972 across 30 hospitalsNJ$972Connecticut: 5 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 $676 across 53 hospitalsCA$676Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $316 across 22 hospitalsCO$316Nebraska: median $341 across 40 hospitalsNE$341Missouri: median $247 across 38 hospitalsMO$247Kentucky: median $224 across 11 hospitalsKY$224West Virginia: median $305 across 24 hospitalsWV$305Virginia: median $273 across 28 hospitalsVA$273Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $253 across 50 hospitalsKS$253Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $160 across 21 hospitalsTN$160North Carolina: median $319 across 23 hospitalsNC$319South Carolina: median $521 across 30 hospitalsSC$521Oklahoma: median $173 across 24 hospitalsOK$173Louisiana: median $234 across 24 hospitalsLA$234Mississippi: median $308 across 16 hospitalsMS$308Alabama: median $344 across 11 hospitalsAL$344Georgia: median $371 across 15 hospitalsGA$371Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $558 across 58 hospitalsTX$558Florida: median $888 across 38 hospitalsFL$888
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $373. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ30$972+160%$443 – $5,110
Florida FL38$888+138%$368 – $1,347
Alaska AK10$745+100%$435 – $1,048
California CA53$676+81%$238 – $1,053
Texas TX58$558+50%$304 – $709
Massachusetts MA16$534+43%$398 – $1,121
South Carolina SC30$521+40%$520 – $719
Ohio OH47$521+40%$227 – $779
New York NY56$473+27%$164 – $994
South Dakota SD13$470+26%$326 – $678
Pennsylvania PA51$469+26%$151 – $608
Idaho ID14$432+16%$302 – $1,117
Indiana IN31$385+3%$216 – $521
Washington WA33$377+1%$270 – $580
Illinois IL42$377+1%$185 – $794
Georgia GA15$371−1%$358 – $371
North Dakota ND14$368−1%$153 – $468
Wisconsin WI54$349−6%$257 – $442
Iowa IA52$346−7%$204 – $416
Alabama AL11$344−8%$126 – $379
Nebraska NE40$341−9%$191 – $392
North Carolina NC23$319−14%$248 – $480
Minnesota MN37$317−15%$195 – $876
Colorado CO22$316−15%$184 – $510
Mississippi MS16$308−17%$245 – $490
West Virginia WV24$305−18%$101 – $520
Montana MT17$295−21%$155 – $446
Oregon OR31$286−23%$159 – $356
Virginia VA28$273−27%$67 – $663
New Hampshire NH12$263−29%$131 – $381
Kansas KS50$253−32%$152 – $452
Maine ME13$248−34%$129 – $535
Missouri MO38$247−34%$182 – $298
Louisiana LA24$234−37%$171 – $425
Michigan MI45$230−38%$110 – $404
Kentucky KY11$224−40%$165 – $432
Oklahoma OK24$173−54%$162 – $330
Tennessee TN21$160−57%$157 – $265
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $373.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care765$404$193 – $725
Children’s22$444$336 – $709
Critical access415$305$177 – $474
Ownership
For-profit65$371$193 – $609
Government303$325$189 – $486
Non-profit834$389$185 – $709
System affiliation
Part of a system914$385$191 – $667
Independent289$324$181 – $509

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$505
Median cash price$373
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

712 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $381 and the average of the middle 60% is $394; most fall between $193 and $677.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 712 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
$159$227$381$620$1,053

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($159 vs $1,053).

Of the 773 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 712 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,203 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,299 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,203
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code1,299

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 Excision of skin lesion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Destruction Premalignant Lesion 15/>.

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, “Destroying 15 or more precancerous skin spots in one visit (CPT 17004) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17004-destroying-15-or-more-precancerous-skin-spots-in-one-visit