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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Chemical treatment of overgrown wound tissue

CPT 17250the billing code this page is about

Applies a chemical agent to burn away excess granulation tissue, sometimes called proud flesh, in a wound or sore.

Hospitals typically charge $247 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,764 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $265. Most fall between $119 and $493 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,764
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 2,764 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
$75$139$247$422$688

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $688).

How the prices are spread

$53 – $71: 113 hospitals$53$71 – $95: 127 hospitals$95 – $126: 223 hospitals$95$126 – $168: 266 hospitals$168 – $224: 351 hospitals$168$224 – $298: 425 hospitals$298 – $398: 367 hospitals$298$398 – $530: 281 hospitals$530 – $707: 209 hospitals$530$707 – $942: 127 hospitals$707median $247price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,489 of 2,764 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$53$71113
$71$95127
$95$126223
$126$168266
$168$224351
$224$298425
$298$398367
$398$530281
$530$707209
$707$942127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$247
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.21×

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 $247.

Alaska: median $243 across 14 hospitalsAK$243Maine: median $111 across 21 hospitalsME$111Vermont: median $188 across 12 hospitalsVT$188New Hampshire: median $83 across 16 hospitalsNH$83Washington: median $262 across 73 hospitalsWA$262Idaho: median $201 across 21 hospitalsID$201Montana: median $134 across 21 hospitalsMT$134North Dakota: median $246 across 22 hospitalsND$246Minnesota: median $190 across 91 hospitalsMN$190Illinois: median $252 across 116 hospitalsIL$252Wisconsin: median $273 across 97 hospitalsWI$273Michigan: median $232 across 95 hospitalsMI$232New York: median $404 across 110 hospitalsNY$404Massachusetts: median $372 across 48 hospitalsMA$372Oregon: median $146 across 54 hospitalsOR$146Nevada: median $218 across 16 hospitalsNV$218Wyoming: median $115 across 11 hospitalsWY$115South Dakota: median $250 across 21 hospitalsSD$250Iowa: median $183 across 81 hospitalsIA$183Indiana: median $297 across 75 hospitalsIN$297Ohio: median $308 across 136 hospitalsOH$308Pennsylvania: median $309 across 123 hospitalsPA$309New Jersey: median $267 across 58 hospitalsNJ$267Connecticut: median $215 across 22 hospitalsCT$215Rhode Island: median $219 across 10 hospitalsRI$219California: median $496 across 162 hospitalsCA$496Utah: median $474 across 24 hospitalsUT$474Colorado: median $259 across 51 hospitalsCO$259Nebraska: median $176 across 59 hospitalsNE$176Missouri: median $199 across 68 hospitalsMO$199Kentucky: median $281 across 46 hospitalsKY$281West Virginia: median $229 across 36 hospitalsWV$229Virginia: median $202 across 61 hospitalsVA$202Maryland: median $571 across 19 hospitalsMD$571Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $110 across 31 hospitalsAZ$110New Mexico: median $260 across 20 hospitalsNM$260Kansas: median $130 across 59 hospitalsKS$130Arkansas: median $165 across 27 hospitalsAR$165Tennessee: median $92 across 52 hospitalsTN$92North Carolina: median $223 across 76 hospitalsNC$223South Carolina: median $326 across 45 hospitalsSC$326Oklahoma: median $179 across 54 hospitalsOK$179Louisiana: median $134 across 45 hospitalsLA$134Mississippi: median $142 across 44 hospitalsMS$142Alabama: median $307 across 37 hospitalsAL$307Georgia: median $650 across 85 hospitalsGA$650Hawaii: median $324 across 13 hospitalsHI$324Texas: median $293 across 174 hospitalsTX$293Florida: median $434 across 105 hospitalsFL$434
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $247. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA85$650+163%$200 – $1,054
Maryland MD19$571+131%$192 – $700
California CA162$496+101%$225 – $874
Utah UT24$474+92%$322 – $592
Florida FL105$434+76%$260 – $647
New York NY110$404+64%$111 – $746
Massachusetts MA48$372+51%$192 – $587
South Carolina SC45$326+32%$155 – $496
Hawaii HI13$324+31%$104 – $692
Pennsylvania PA123$309+25%$156 – $513
Ohio OH136$308+24%$161 – $473
Alabama AL37$307+24%$163 – $1,020
Indiana IN75$297+20%$127 – $410
Texas TX174$293+19%$154 – $446
Kentucky KY46$281+14%$132 – $553
Wisconsin WI97$273+10%$127 – $379
New Jersey NJ58$267+8%$220 – $3,786
Washington WA73$262+6%$148 – $405
New Mexico NM20$260+5%$144 – $501
Colorado CO51$259+5%$155 – $363
Illinois IL116$252+2%$129 – $512
South Dakota SD21$250+1%$183 – $370
North Dakota ND22$2460%$180 – $346
Alaska AK14$243−2%$154 – $375
Michigan MI95$232−6%$65 – $342
West Virginia WV36$229−7%$148 – $343
North Carolina NC76$223−10%$133 – $367
Rhode Island RI10$219−11%$129 – $613
Nevada NV16$218−12%$170 – $386
Connecticut CT22$215−13%$192 – $375
Virginia VA61$202−18%$75 – $247
Idaho ID21$201−19%$121 – $556
Missouri MO68$199−19%$114 – $386
Minnesota MN91$190−23%$109 – $238
Vermont VT12$188−24%$66 – $415
Iowa IA81$183−26%$97 – $346
Oklahoma OK54$179−28%$73 – $405
Nebraska NE59$176−29%$135 – $248
Arkansas AR27$165−33%$86 – $261
Oregon OR54$146−41%$93 – $259
Mississippi MS44$142−42%$65 – $278
Louisiana LA45$134−46%$86 – $247
Montana MT21$134−46%$89 – $255
Kansas KS59$130−47%$84 – $286
Wyoming WY11$115−53%$48 – $160
Maine ME21$111−55%$80 – $197
Arizona AZ31$110−56%$96 – $440
Tennessee TN52$92−63%$62 – $247
New Hampshire NH16$83−66%$43 – $154
Delaware DE7not 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 $247.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,981$278$135 – $546
Children’s67$315$164 – $661
Critical access707$173$86 – $318
Ownership
For-profit259$328$154 – $752
Government517$188$94 – $352
Non-profit1,979$257$125 – $493
System affiliation
Part of a system2,235$265$132 – $509
Independent529$178$86 – $394

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$459
Median cash price$247
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,971 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $283 and the average of the middle 60% is $298; most fall between $134 and $519.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,971 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$156$283$474$693

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $693).

Of the 2,113 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,971 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,764 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,954 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,764
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here90
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,954

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 Chemical Cauterization of Granulation Tissue.

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, “Chemical treatment of overgrown wound tissue (CPT 17250) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17250-chemical-treatment-of-overgrown-wound-tissue