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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on trunk, arm or leg, 1.1 to 2 cm

CPT 17262the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion measuring 1.1 to 2.0 cm on the trunk, arms, or legs using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $270 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 865 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $283. Most fall between $161 and $446 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
865
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 865 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
$109$176$270$419$638

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $638).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $97: 23 hospitals$77$97 – $123: 38 hospitals$123 – $156: 58 hospitals$123$156 – $197: 109 hospitals$197 – $249: 112 hospitals$197$249 – $316: 116 hospitals$316 – $399: 137 hospitals$316$399 – $505: 84 hospitals$505 – $639: 68 hospitals$505$639 – $809: 34 hospitals$639median $270price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (779 of 865 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$9723
$97$12338
$123$15658
$156$197109
$197$249112
$249$316116
$316$399137
$399$50584
$505$63968
$639$80934

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$270
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.32×

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 $270.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $170 across 10 hospitalsME$170Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $211 across 10 hospitalsNH$211Washington: median $320 across 21 hospitalsWA$320Idaho: median $526 across 12 hospitalsID$526Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $217 across 38 hospitalsMN$217Illinois: median $233 across 30 hospitalsIL$233Wisconsin: median $389 across 51 hospitalsWI$389Michigan: median $175 across 41 hospitalsMI$175New York: median $253 across 47 hospitalsNY$253Massachusetts: median $374 across 15 hospitalsMA$374Oregon: median $274 across 21 hospitalsOR$274Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $346 across 11 hospitalsSD$346Iowa: median $331 across 36 hospitalsIA$331Indiana: median $371 across 24 hospitalsIN$371Ohio: median $321 across 32 hospitalsOH$321Pennsylvania: median $237 across 42 hospitalsPA$237New Jersey: median $650 across 28 hospitalsNJ$650Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $638 across 38 hospitalsCA$638Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $332 across 16 hospitalsCO$332Nebraska: median $218 across 19 hospitalsNE$218Missouri: median $158 across 32 hospitalsMO$158Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $243 across 14 hospitalsWV$243Virginia: median $336 across 23 hospitalsVA$336Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $184 across 21 hospitalsKS$184Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $136 across 12 hospitalsTN$136North Carolina: median $268 across 19 hospitalsNC$268South Carolina: median $323 across 14 hospitalsSC$323Oklahoma: median $182 across 15 hospitalsOK$182Louisiana: median $121 across 15 hospitalsLA$121Mississippi: median $228 across 11 hospitalsMS$228Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $172 across 12 hospitalsGA$172Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $366 across 29 hospitalsTX$366Florida: median $371 across 24 hospitalsFL$371
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $270. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ28$650+141%$220 – $5,339
California CA38$638+136%$319 – $638
Idaho ID12$526+95%$196 – $556
Wisconsin WI51$389+44%$270 – $419
Massachusetts MA15$374+39%$228 – $503
Florida FL24$371+38%$191 – $605
Indiana IN24$371+37%$161 – $545
Texas TX29$366+36%$189 – $377
South Dakota SD11$346+28%$346 – $394
Virginia VA23$336+24%$74 – $365
Colorado CO16$332+23%$164 – $2,592
Iowa IA36$331+22%$178 – $435
South Carolina SC14$323+20%$92 – $443
Ohio OH32$321+19%$187 – $332
Washington WA21$320+19%$254 – $387
Oregon OR21$274+2%$161 – $413
North Carolina NC19$268−1%$175 – $279
New York NY47$253−6%$235 – $680
West Virginia WV14$243−10%$167 – $348
Pennsylvania PA42$237−12%$84 – $407
Illinois IL30$233−14%$161 – $566
Mississippi MS11$228−15%$195 – $246
Nebraska NE19$218−19%$157 – $422
Minnesota MN38$217−20%$173 – $589
New Hampshire NH10$211−22%$128 – $273
Kansas KS21$184−32%$84 – $300
Oklahoma OK15$182−33%$144 – $182
Michigan MI41$175−35%$132 – $267
Georgia GA12$172−36%$172 – $172
Maine ME10$170−37%$112 – $261
Missouri MO32$158−42%$85 – $250
Tennessee TN12$136−50%$101 – $251
Louisiana LA15$121−55%$60 – $206
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $270.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care593$276$161 – $468
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access262$257$157 – $419
Ownership
For-profit43$205$161 – $377
Government193$263$154 – $360
Non-profit628$287$162 – $496
System affiliation
Part of a system681$276$161 – $446
Independent184$255$154 – $446

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$440
Median cash price$270
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

533 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $294 and the average of the middle 60% is $292; most fall between $161 and $457.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 533 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
$118$175$294$419$636

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $636).

Of the 580 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 533 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

865 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 941 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted865
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code941

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 Mal Lesion Trunk/Arm/Leg 1.1-2.0cm.

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, “Destruction of skin cancer on trunk, arm or leg, 1.1 to 2 cm (CPT 17262) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17262-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-trunk-arm-or-leg-1-1-to-2-cm