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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of 15 or more benign skin growths by destruction

CPT 17111the billing code this page is about

Destroys benign skin growths such as warts using methods like freezing, burning, or chemicals; this code covers a session treating 15 or more lesions.

Hospitals typically charge $237 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,368 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $247. Most fall between $131 and $410 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,368
States
49
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 1,368 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
$86$151$237$352$709

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $709).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $88: 76 hospitals$66$88 – $117: 70 hospitals$117 – $155: 150 hospitals$117$155 – $205: 187 hospitals$205 – $272: 248 hospitals$205$272 – $361: 240 hospitals$361 – $478: 108 hospitals$361$478 – $634: 70 hospitals$634 – $841: 64 hospitals$634$841 – $1,115: 33 hospitals$841median $237price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,246 of 1,368 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$8876
$88$11770
$117$155150
$155$205187
$205$272248
$272$361240
$361$478108
$478$63470
$634$84164
$841$1,11533

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$237
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $237.

Alaska: median $364 across 10 hospitalsAK$364Maine: median $161 across 15 hospitalsME$161Vermont: median $251 across 11 hospitalsVT$251New Hampshire: median $114 across 12 hospitalsNH$114Washington: median $257 across 41 hospitalsWA$257Idaho: median $249 across 15 hospitalsID$249Montana: median $196 across 23 hospitalsMT$196North Dakota: median $324 across 17 hospitalsND$324Minnesota: median $260 across 51 hospitalsMN$260Illinois: median $253 across 43 hospitalsIL$253Wisconsin: median $268 across 57 hospitalsWI$268Michigan: median $173 across 54 hospitalsMI$173New York: median $242 across 68 hospitalsNY$242Massachusetts: median $344 across 24 hospitalsMA$344Oregon: median $204 across 33 hospitalsOR$204Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $214 across 10 hospitalsWY$214South Dakota: median $312 across 17 hospitalsSD$312Iowa: median $238 across 58 hospitalsIA$238Indiana: median $121 across 34 hospitalsIN$121Ohio: median $321 across 59 hospitalsOH$321Pennsylvania: median $237 across 56 hospitalsPA$237New Jersey: median $509 across 37 hospitalsNJ$509Connecticut: 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 $656 across 56 hospitalsCA$656Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $251 across 20 hospitalsCO$251Nebraska: median $258 across 41 hospitalsNE$258Missouri: median $177 across 41 hospitalsMO$177Kentucky: median $176 across 17 hospitalsKY$176West Virginia: median $196 across 28 hospitalsWV$196Virginia: median $224 across 28 hospitalsVA$224Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $212 across 48 hospitalsKS$212Arkansas: median $288 across 10 hospitalsAR$288Tennessee: median $132 across 19 hospitalsTN$132North Carolina: median $197 across 32 hospitalsNC$197South Carolina: median $280 across 31 hospitalsSC$280Oklahoma: median $137 across 26 hospitalsOK$137Louisiana: median $134 across 27 hospitalsLA$134Mississippi: median $189 across 21 hospitalsMS$189Alabama: median $296 across 11 hospitalsAL$296Georgia: median $859 across 34 hospitalsGA$859Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $347 across 55 hospitalsTX$347Florida: median $293 across 32 hospitalsFL$293
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $237. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA34$859+262%$173 – $1,115
California CA56$656+176%$195 – $745
New Jersey NJ37$509+114%$220 – $4,881
Alaska AK10$364+53%$252 – $495
Texas TX55$347+46%$131 – $425
Massachusetts MA24$344+45%$290 – $564
North Dakota ND17$324+37%$204 – $368
Ohio OH59$321+35%$157 – $387
South Dakota SD17$312+31%$217 – $456
Alabama AL11$296+25%$64 – $344
Florida FL32$293+24%$191 – $554
Arkansas AR10$288+21%$207 – $314
South Carolina SC31$280+18%$154 – $358
Wisconsin WI57$268+13%$165 – $317
Minnesota MN51$260+10%$151 – $341
Nebraska NE41$258+9%$165 – $317
Washington WA41$257+8%$160 – $343
Illinois IL43$253+7%$121 – $385
Vermont VT11$251+6%$154 – $385
Colorado CO20$251+6%$130 – $526
Idaho ID15$249+5%$163 – $556
New York NY68$242+2%$132 – $567
Iowa IA58$2380%$125 – $322
Pennsylvania PA56$2370%$95 – $624
Virginia VA28$224−6%$84 – $264
Wyoming WY10$214−10%$104 – $270
Kansas KS48$212−11%$129 – $342
Oregon OR33$204−14%$161 – $309
North Carolina NC32$197−17%$144 – $210
Montana MT23$196−17%$118 – $292
West Virginia WV28$196−17%$85 – $247
Mississippi MS21$189−20%$160 – $237
Missouri MO41$177−26%$66 – $255
Kentucky KY17$176−26%$126 – $254
Michigan MI54$173−27%$72 – $317
Maine ME15$161−32%$107 – $227
Oklahoma OK26$137−42%$116 – $287
Louisiana LA27$134−44%$90 – $306
Tennessee TN19$132−44%$84 – $254
Indiana IN34$121−49%$74 – $343
New Hampshire NH12$114−52%$99 – $197
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not 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

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 $237.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care856$242$134 – $509
Children’s33$289$151 – $585
Critical access478$223$126 – $331
Ownership
For-profit93$289$134 – $1,115
Government330$216$133 – $336
Non-profit944$242$129 – $430
System affiliation
Part of a system1,048$240$133 – $430
Independent320$215$127 – $354

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$360
Median cash price$237
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

815 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $244 and the average of the middle 60% is $254; most fall between $134 and $432.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 815 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
$105$152$244$377$724

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $724).

Of the 887 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 815 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,368 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,485 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,368
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code1,485

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 Benign Lesions 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, “Removal of 15 or more benign skin growths by destruction (CPT 17111) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17111-removal-of-15-or-more-benign-skin-growths-by-destruction