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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on trunk, arm or leg, 2.1 to 3 cm

CPT 17263the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion measuring 2.1 to 3.0 cm on the trunk, arms, or legs using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $306 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 821 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $315. Most fall between $176 and $487 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
821
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 821 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
$125$201$306$458$752

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $752).

How the prices are spread

$94 – $119: 27 hospitals$94$119 – $151: 46 hospitals$151 – $192: 73 hospitals$151$192 – $244: 121 hospitals$244 – $310: 107 hospitals$244$310 – $393: 124 hospitals$393 – $500: 128 hospitals$393$500 – $635: 44 hospitals$635 – $806: 31 hospitals$635$806 – $1,024: 39 hospitals$806median $306price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (740 of 821 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$94$11927
$119$15146
$151$19273
$192$244121
$244$310107
$310$393124
$393$500128
$500$63544
$635$80631
$806$1,02439

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$306
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.49×

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 $306.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $315 across 20 hospitalsWA$315Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $274 across 34 hospitalsMN$274Illinois: median $345 across 36 hospitalsIL$345Wisconsin: median $431 across 53 hospitalsWI$431Michigan: median $160 across 34 hospitalsMI$160New York: median $250 across 42 hospitalsNY$250Massachusetts: median $490 across 13 hospitalsMA$490Oregon: median $352 across 21 hospitalsOR$352Nevada: 4 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 $382 across 11 hospitalsSD$382Iowa: median $375 across 28 hospitalsIA$375Indiana: median $458 across 24 hospitalsIN$458Ohio: median $226 across 25 hospitalsOH$226Pennsylvania: median $233 across 39 hospitalsPA$233New Jersey: median $765 across 27 hospitalsNJ$765Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $585 across 49 hospitalsCA$585Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $446 across 15 hospitalsCO$446Nebraska: median $211 across 15 hospitalsNE$211Missouri: median $235 across 24 hospitalsMO$235Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $184 across 20 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $354 across 23 hospitalsVA$354Maryland: 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 $240 across 19 hospitalsKS$240Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $150 across 13 hospitalsTN$150North Carolina: median $260 across 15 hospitalsNC$260South Carolina: median $302 across 17 hospitalsSC$302Oklahoma: median $201 across 16 hospitalsOK$201Louisiana: median $121 across 17 hospitalsLA$121Mississippi: median $240 across 12 hospitalsMS$240Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $222 across 11 hospitalsGA$222Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $402 across 27 hospitalsTX$402Florida: median $414 across 27 hospitalsFL$414
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $306. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$765+150%$220 – $5,339
California CA49$585+91%$369 – $969
Massachusetts MA13$490+60%$389 – $520
Indiana IN24$458+50%$176 – $604
Colorado CO15$446+46%$179 – $2,867
Wisconsin WI53$431+41%$215 – $458
Florida FL27$414+35%$281 – $1,024
Texas TX27$402+31%$365 – $439
South Dakota SD11$382+25%$334 – $444
Iowa IA28$375+23%$198 – $473
Virginia VA23$354+16%$82 – $365
Oregon OR21$352+15%$198 – $496
Illinois IL36$345+13%$176 – $426
Washington WA20$315+3%$223 – $395
South Carolina SC17$302−1%$302 – $443
Minnesota MN34$274−11%$173 – $722
North Carolina NC15$260−15%$194 – $260
New York NY42$250−18%$235 – $713
Kansas KS19$240−21%$98 – $342
Mississippi MS12$240−21%$216 – $246
Missouri MO24$235−23%$125 – $467
Pennsylvania PA39$233−24%$89 – $428
Ohio OH25$226−26%$132 – $445
Georgia GA11$222−27%$222 – $222
Nebraska NE15$211−31%$116 – $457
Oklahoma OK16$201−34%$201 – $201
West Virginia WV20$184−40%$115 – $294
Michigan MI34$160−48%$153 – $434
Tennessee TN13$150−51%$111 – $251
Louisiana LA17$121−60%$67 – $208
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $306.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care590$304$188 – $488
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access221$298$168 – $458
Ownership
For-profit39$222$176 – $458
Government170$265$176 – $395
Non-profit611$337$178 – $503
System affiliation
Part of a system655$310$178 – $490
Independent166$288$174 – $468

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$504
Median cash price$306
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

494 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $338 and the average of the middle 60% is $328; most fall between $186 and $486.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 494 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
$143$201$338$458$808

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $808).

Of the 527 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 494 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

821 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 879 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted821
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code879

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 2.1-3.0cm.

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, 2.1 to 3 cm (CPT 17263) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17263-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-trunk-arm-or-leg-2-1-to-3-cm