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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on trunk, arm or leg, 3.1 to 4 cm

CPT 17264the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion measuring 3.1 to 4.0 cm on the trunk, arms, or legs using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $417 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 657 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $415. Most fall between $223 and $675 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
657
States
48
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 657 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
$158$253$417$572$1,045

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $1,045).

How the prices are spread

$122 – $154: 29 hospitals$122$154 – $195: 32 hospitals$195 – $246: 60 hospitals$195$246 – $310: 68 hospitals$310 – $392: 81 hospitals$310$392 – $494: 122 hospitals$494 – $624: 89 hospitals$494$624 – $787: 28 hospitals$787 – $994: 43 hospitals$787$994 – $1,254: 41 hospitals$994median $417price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (593 of 657 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$122$15429
$154$19532
$195$24660
$246$31068
$310$39281
$392$494122
$494$62489
$624$78728
$787$99443
$994$1,25441

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$417
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $417.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $438 across 15 hospitalsWA$438Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 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 $343 across 23 hospitalsMN$343Illinois: median $392 across 24 hospitalsIL$392Wisconsin: median $491 across 37 hospitalsWI$491Michigan: median $431 across 30 hospitalsMI$431New York: median $473 across 40 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $600 across 10 hospitalsMA$600Oregon: median $379 across 20 hospitalsOR$379Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $406 across 27 hospitalsIA$406Indiana: median $519 across 20 hospitalsIN$519Ohio: median $290 across 22 hospitalsOH$290Pennsylvania: median $469 across 31 hospitalsPA$469New Jersey: median $1,363 across 27 hospitalsNJ$1,363Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,109 across 35 hospitalsCA$1,109Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $386 across 14 hospitalsCO$386Nebraska: median $250 across 12 hospitalsNE$250Missouri: median $280 across 15 hospitalsMO$280Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $347 across 10 hospitalsWV$347Virginia: median $365 across 23 hospitalsVA$365Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $160 across 11 hospitalsTN$160North Carolina: median $417 across 15 hospitalsNC$417South Carolina: median $482 across 10 hospitalsSC$482Oklahoma: median $215 across 13 hospitalsOK$215Louisiana: median $188 across 17 hospitalsLA$188Mississippi: median $258 across 11 hospitalsMS$258Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $253 across 10 hospitalsGA$253Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $496 across 25 hospitalsTX$496Florida: median $888 across 15 hospitalsFL$888
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $417. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$1,363+227%$443 – $5,339
California CA35$1,109+166%$419 – $1,109
Florida FL15$888+113%$592 – $974
Massachusetts MA10$600+44%$556 – $714
Indiana IN20$519+25%$212 – $648
Texas TX25$496+19%$310 – $528
Wisconsin WI37$491+18%$363 – $491
South Carolina SC10$482+16%$290 – $554
New York NY40$473+14%$319 – $954
Pennsylvania PA31$469+13%$88 – $753
Washington WA15$438+5%$375 – $565
Michigan MI30$431+4%$267 – $491
North Carolina NC15$4170%$289 – $417
Iowa IA27$406−3%$285 – $507
Illinois IL24$392−6%$212 – $525
Colorado CO14$386−7%$283 – $3,062
Oregon OR20$379−9%$202 – $497
Virginia VA23$365−12%$87 – $817
West Virginia WV10$347−17%$191 – $520
Minnesota MN23$343−18%$258 – $795
Ohio OH22$290−30%$223 – $640
Missouri MO15$280−33%$103 – $324
Mississippi MS11$258−38%$230 – $490
Georgia GA10$253−39%$253 – $253
Nebraska NE12$250−40%$206 – $426
Oklahoma OK13$215−48%$215 – $215
Louisiana LA17$188−55%$136 – $364
Tennessee TN11$160−62%$122 – $208
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $417.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care487$431$223 – $753
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access163$371$212 – $559
Ownership
For-profit35$290$212 – $590
Government134$371$208 – $473
Non-profit487$449$229 – $817
System affiliation
Part of a system527$431$223 – $795
Independent130$350$207 – $559

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$634
Median cash price$417
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

402 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $399 and the average of the middle 60% is $413; most fall between $227 and $714.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 402 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
$179$253$399$577$1,109

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($179 vs $1,109).

Of the 427 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 402 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

657 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 698 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted657
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code698

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 3.1-4.0cm.

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, 3.1 to 4 cm (CPT 17264) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17264-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-trunk-arm-or-leg-3-1-to-4-cm