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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Skin cancer destruction, scalp/neck/hand/foot, 2.1-3 cm

CPT 17273the billing code this page is about

Destruction of a cancerous skin growth on the scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals by freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals; covers one lesion measuring 2.1 to 3.0 centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $437 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 670 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $432. Most fall between $230 and $698 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
670
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 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 670 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
$164$264$437$639$1,045

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($164 vs $1,045).

How the prices are spread

$111 – $140: 15 hospitals$111$140 – $177: 31 hospitals$177 – $224: 35 hospitals$177$224 – $282: 71 hospitals$282 – $356: 71 hospitals$282$356 – $450: 102 hospitals$450 – $568: 120 hospitals$450$568 – $717: 62 hospitals$717 – $905: 38 hospitals$717$905 – $1,143: 60 hospitals$905median $437price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (605 of 670 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$111$14015
$140$17731
$177$22435
$224$28271
$282$35671
$356$450102
$450$568120
$568$71762
$717$90538
$905$1,14360

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$437
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $437.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 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 $471 across 15 hospitalsWA$471Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 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 $363 across 23 hospitalsMN$363Illinois: median $346 across 27 hospitalsIL$346Wisconsin: median $368 across 46 hospitalsWI$368Michigan: median $365 across 30 hospitalsMI$365New York: median $473 across 39 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $528 across 10 hospitalsMA$528Oregon: median $441 across 20 hospitalsOR$441Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $449 across 26 hospitalsIA$449Indiana: median $543 across 21 hospitalsIN$543Ohio: median $261 across 19 hospitalsOH$261Pennsylvania: median $468 across 34 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $1,363 across 27 hospitalsNJ$1,363Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,092 across 30 hospitalsCA$1,092Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $473 across 13 hospitalsCO$473Nebraska: median $248 across 10 hospitalsNE$248Missouri: median $289 across 20 hospitalsMO$289Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $467 across 13 hospitalsWV$467Virginia: median $663 across 23 hospitalsVA$663Maryland: 1 hospital 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 $302 across 15 hospitalsKS$302Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $164 across 11 hospitalsTN$164North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $520 across 10 hospitalsSC$520Oklahoma: median $225 across 14 hospitalsOK$225Louisiana: median $208 across 15 hospitalsLA$208Mississippi: median $279 across 10 hospitalsMS$279Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $639 across 27 hospitalsTX$639Florida: median $974 across 22 hospitalsFL$974
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $437. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ27$1,363+212%$443 – $5,339
California CA30$1,092+150%$632 – $1,092
Florida FL22$974+123%$556 – $1,276
Virginia VA23$663+52%$123 – $976
Texas TX27$639+46%$376 – $662
Indiana IN21$543+24%$245 – $677
Massachusetts MA10$528+21%$235 – $1,143
South Carolina SC10$520+19%$350 – $798
Colorado CO13$473+8%$284 – $473
New York NY39$473+8%$225 – $900
Washington WA15$471+8%$382 – $565
Pennsylvania PA34$468+7%$92 – $693
West Virginia WV13$467+7%$196 – $531
Iowa IA26$449+3%$281 – $514
Oregon OR20$441+1%$382 – $512
Wisconsin WI46$368−16%$365 – $483
Michigan MI30$365−16%$193 – $437
Minnesota MN23$363−17%$283 – $722
Illinois IL27$346−21%$245 – $514
Kansas KS15$302−31%$79 – $387
Missouri MO20$289−34%$109 – $312
Mississippi MS10$279−36%$246 – $490
Ohio OH19$261−40%$226 – $640
Nebraska NE10$248−43%$211 – $497
Oklahoma OK14$225−48%$225 – $225
Louisiana LA15$208−52%$131 – $234
Tennessee TN11$164−63%$111 – $211
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not 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
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $437.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care484$462$226 – $798
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access178$365$245 – $553
Ownership
For-profit33$365$239 – $656
Government121$376$200 – $553
Non-profit515$449$237 – $727
System affiliation
Part of a system542$447$245 – $727
Independent128$354$196 – $579

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$588
Median cash price$437
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

386 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $395 and the average of the middle 60% is $435; most fall between $230 and $722.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 386 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
$183$260$395$663$1,092

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($183 vs $1,092).

Of the 417 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 386 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

670 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 724 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted670
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code724

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 PR Destr Malig Scal,Nck,Hand 2.1-3 Cm.

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, “Skin cancer destruction, scalp/neck/hand/foot, 2.1-3 cm (CPT 17273) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17273-skin-cancer-destruction-scalp-neck-hand-foot-2-1-3-cm