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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Skin cancer destruction, scalp/neck/hand/foot, 3.1-4 cm

CPT 17274the 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 3.1 to 4.0 centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $465 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 561 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $479. Most fall between $275 and $846 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
561
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 561 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
$186$298$465$671$1,092

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($186 vs $1,092).

How the prices are spread

$123 – $155: 13 hospitals$123$155 – $196: 27 hospitals$196 – $248: 22 hospitals$196$248 – $313: 59 hospitals$313 – $396: 51 hospitals$313$396 – $500: 122 hospitals$500 – $632: 91 hospitals$500$632 – $799: 28 hospitals$799 – $1,010: 36 hospitals$799$1,010 – $1,276: 56 hospitals$1,010median $465price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (505 of 561 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$123$15513
$155$19627
$196$24822
$248$31359
$313$39651
$396$500122
$500$63291
$632$79928
$799$1,01036
$1,010$1,27656

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$465
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $465.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $501 across 16 hospitalsWA$501Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $751 across 17 hospitalsMN$751Illinois: median $373 across 24 hospitalsIL$373Wisconsin: median $435 across 35 hospitalsWI$435Michigan: median $408 across 31 hospitalsMI$408New York: median $473 across 36 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $577 across 18 hospitalsOR$577Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $606 across 21 hospitalsIA$606Indiana: median $664 across 19 hospitalsIN$664Ohio: median $286 across 17 hospitalsOH$286Pennsylvania: median $468 across 26 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $1,363 across 26 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 $1,092 across 29 hospitalsCA$1,092Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $494 across 12 hospitalsCO$494Nebraska: median $244 across 10 hospitalsNE$244Missouri: median $186 across 16 hospitalsMO$186Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $493 across 10 hospitalsWV$493Virginia: median $454 across 13 hospitalsVA$454Maryland: 1 hospital 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: median $356 across 11 hospitalsKS$356Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $193 across 11 hospitalsTN$193North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $520 across 10 hospitalsSC$520Oklahoma: median $275 across 13 hospitalsOK$275Louisiana: median $220 across 12 hospitalsLA$220Mississippi: median $388 across 11 hospitalsMS$388Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $462 across 24 hospitalsTX$462Florida: median $888 across 13 hospitalsFL$888
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $465. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ26$1,363+193%$443 – $5,339
California CA29$1,092+135%$656 – $1,092
Florida FL13$888+91%$686 – $1,127
Minnesota MN17$751+61%$374 – $881
Indiana IN19$664+43%$290 – $1,001
Iowa IA21$606+30%$480 – $606
Oregon OR18$577+24%$448 – $599
South Carolina SC10$520+12%$520 – $798
Washington WA16$501+8%$382 – $580
Colorado CO12$494+6%$232 – $568
West Virginia WV10$493+6%$437 – $651
New York NY36$473+2%$363 – $586
Pennsylvania PA26$468+1%$109 – $753
Texas TX24$462−1%$420 – $598
Virginia VA13$454−2%$112 – $1,011
Wisconsin WI35$435−7%$408 – $546
Michigan MI31$408−12%$306 – $511
Mississippi MS11$388−17%$280 – $490
Illinois IL24$373−20%$290 – $630
Kansas KS11$356−23%$329 – $417
Ohio OH17$286−39%$258 – $572
Oklahoma OK13$275−41%$275 – $275
Nebraska NE10$244−48%$160 – $426
Louisiana LA12$220−53%$120 – $420
Tennessee TN11$193−59%$122 – $249
Missouri MO16$186−60%$131 – $386
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $465.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care414$473$275 – $881
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access141$410$280 – $759
Ownership
For-profit26$358$290 – $656
Government103$435$237 – $559
Non-profit431$473$275 – $881
System affiliation
Part of a system443$473$275 – $881
Independent118$388$265 – $598

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$699
Median cash price$465
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

322 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $435 and the average of the middle 60% is $474; most fall between $275 and $860.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 322 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
$193$290$435$769$1,092

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($193 vs $1,092).

Of the 345 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 322 gave a usable cash price; 8 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

561 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 603 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted561
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
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 code603

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 Malignant Lesion S/N/H/F/G 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, “Skin cancer destruction, scalp/neck/hand/foot, 3.1-4 cm (CPT 17274) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17274-skin-cancer-destruction-scalp-neck-hand-foot-3-1-4-cm