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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on scalp, neck or hand, over 4 cm

CPT 17276the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion larger than 4.0 cm on the scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $519 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 513 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $571. Most fall between $313 and $1,021 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
513
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 513 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
$214$356$519$888$1,281

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($214 vs $1,281).

How the prices are spread

$133 – $172: 15 hospitals$133$172 – $222: 19 hospitals$222 – $287: 30 hospitals$222$287 – $370: 45 hospitals$370 – $478: 83 hospitals$370$478 – $617: 92 hospitals$617 – $797: 60 hospitals$617$797 – $1,028: 45 hospitals$1,028 – $1,327: 51 hospitals$1,028$1,327 – $1,714: 31 hospitals$1,327median $519price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (471 of 513 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$133$17215
$172$22219
$222$28730
$287$37045
$370$47883
$478$61792
$617$79760
$797$1,02845
$1,028$1,32751
$1,327$1,71431

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$519
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.25×

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 $519.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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 $540 across 14 hospitalsWA$540Idaho: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $834 across 17 hospitalsMN$834Illinois: median $399 across 22 hospitalsIL$399Wisconsin: median $1,147 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,147Michigan: median $468 across 21 hospitalsMI$468New York: median $473 across 32 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $690 across 19 hospitalsOR$690Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $702 across 23 hospitalsIA$702Indiana: median $783 across 20 hospitalsIN$783Ohio: median $319 across 14 hospitalsOH$319Pennsylvania: median $468 across 23 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 $1,714 across 26 hospitalsCA$1,714Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $592 across 12 hospitalsCO$592Nebraska: median $308 across 10 hospitalsNE$308Missouri: median $450 across 13 hospitalsMO$450Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $201 across 13 hospitalsVA$201Maryland: 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 $435 across 11 hospitalsKS$435Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $223 across 11 hospitalsTN$223North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $333 across 18 hospitalsOK$333Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $604 across 23 hospitalsTX$604Florida: median $888 across 13 hospitalsFL$888
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $519. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$1,714+230%$937 – $1,714
New Jersey NJ26$1,363+163%$443 – $5,339
Wisconsin WI33$1,147+121%$504 – $1,147
Florida FL13$888+71%$845 – $1,147
Minnesota MN17$834+61%$456 – $979
Indiana IN20$783+51%$255 – $992
Iowa IA23$702+35%$447 – $702
Oregon OR19$690+33%$519 – $736
Texas TX23$604+16%$578 – $665
Colorado CO12$592+14%$269 – $681
Washington WA14$540+4%$464 – $581
New York NY32$473−9%$415 – $1,107
Pennsylvania PA23$468−10%$130 – $753
Michigan MI21$468−10%$218 – $559
Missouri MO13$450−13%$306 – $506
Kansas KS11$435−16%$329 – $651
Illinois IL22$399−23%$327 – $702
Oklahoma OK18$333−36%$214 – $333
Ohio OH14$319−39%$245 – $640
Nebraska NE10$308−41%$191 – $495
Tennessee TN11$223−57%$135 – $289
Virginia VA13$201−61%$133 – $1,153
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not 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
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $519.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care372$519$313 – $1,082
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access134$504$349 – $1,014
Ownership
For-profit27$468$333 – $805
Government86$473$274 – $602
Non-profit399$559$327 – $1,145
System affiliation
Part of a system407$534$333 – $1,145
Independent106$465$274 – $690

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$805
Median cash price$519
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

293 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $534 and the average of the middle 60% is $606; most fall between $311 and $1,145.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 293 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
$214$333$534$1,021$1,276

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($214 vs $1,276).

Of the 310 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 293 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

513 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 551 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted513
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code551

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 Dstrj Mal Lesion S/N/H/F/G Lesion Diam > 4.0 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, “Destruction of skin cancer on scalp, neck or hand, over 4 cm (CPT 17276) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17276-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-scalp-neck-or-hand-over-4-cm