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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on face, ear or lip, 1.1 to 2 cm

CPT 17282the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion measuring 1.1 to 2.0 cm on the face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth lining using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $355 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 822 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $373. Most fall between $220 and $620 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
822
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 822 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
$154$234$355$548$888

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($154 vs $888).

How the prices are spread

$105 – $133: 22 hospitals$105$133 – $168: 38 hospitals$168 – $212: 54 hospitals$168$212 – $268: 118 hospitals$268 – $339: 97 hospitals$268$339 – $428: 132 hospitals$428 – $541: 111 hospitals$428$541 – $684: 62 hospitals$684 – $864: 63 hospitals$684$864 – $1,092: 45 hospitals$864median $355price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (742 of 822 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$105$13322
$133$16838
$168$21254
$212$268118
$268$33997
$339$428132
$428$541111
$541$68462
$684$86463
$864$1,09245

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$355
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.73×

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 $355.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $446 across 21 hospitalsWA$446Idaho: median $534 across 11 hospitalsID$534Montana: 7 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 $349 across 32 hospitalsMN$349Illinois: median $399 across 28 hospitalsIL$399Wisconsin: median $362 across 52 hospitalsWI$362Michigan: median $320 across 35 hospitalsMI$320New York: median $250 across 44 hospitalsNY$250Massachusetts: median $1,049 across 10 hospitalsMA$1,049Oregon: median $376 across 22 hospitalsOR$376Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $392 across 35 hospitalsIA$392Indiana: median $489 across 24 hospitalsIN$489Ohio: median $244 across 22 hospitalsOH$244Pennsylvania: median $237 across 35 hospitalsPA$237New Jersey: median $972 across 25 hospitalsNJ$972Connecticut: 5 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 $723 across 47 hospitalsCA$723Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $394 across 17 hospitalsCO$394Nebraska: median $352 across 19 hospitalsNE$352Missouri: median $286 across 24 hospitalsMO$286Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $222 across 20 hospitalsWV$222Virginia: 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 $213 across 27 hospitalsKS$213Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $161 across 11 hospitalsTN$161North Carolina: median $409 across 18 hospitalsNC$409South Carolina: median $520 across 10 hospitalsSC$520Oklahoma: median $225 across 15 hospitalsOK$225Louisiana: median $219 across 17 hospitalsLA$219Mississippi: median $266 across 11 hospitalsMS$266Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $355 across 17 hospitalsGA$355Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $548 across 30 hospitalsTX$548Florida: median $615 across 21 hospitalsFL$615
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $355. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA10$1,049+195%$460 – $1,143
New Jersey NJ25$972+174%$220 – $5,339
California CA47$723+103%$656 – $1,092
Virginia VA23$663+87%$91 – $768
Florida FL21$615+73%$484 – $1,076
Texas TX30$548+54%$293 – $591
Idaho ID11$534+50%$328 – $556
South Carolina SC10$520+46%$345 – $798
Indiana IN24$489+38%$232 – $910
Washington WA21$446+26%$345 – $565
North Carolina NC18$409+15%$246 – $409
Illinois IL28$399+12%$233 – $642
Colorado CO17$394+11%$241 – $428
Iowa IA35$392+10%$221 – $506
Oregon OR22$376+6%$302 – $496
Wisconsin WI52$362+2%$342 – $482
Georgia GA17$3550%$355 – $4,862
Nebraska NE19$352−1%$211 – $487
Minnesota MN32$349−2%$211 – $693
Michigan MI35$320−10%$222 – $434
Missouri MO24$286−20%$108 – $320
Mississippi MS11$266−25%$235 – $490
New York NY44$250−30%$235 – $720
Ohio OH22$244−31%$209 – $434
Pennsylvania PA35$237−33%$92 – $418
Oklahoma OK15$225−37%$192 – $225
West Virginia WV20$222−38%$128 – $410
Louisiana LA17$219−38%$158 – $347
Kansas KS27$213−40%$140 – $343
Tennessee TN11$161−55%$101 – $207
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not 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
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not 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
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $355.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care550$375$225 – $723
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access263$340$197 – $490
Ownership
For-profit40$342$235 – $579
Government182$331$207 – $471
Non-profit599$371$220 – $720
System affiliation
Part of a system649$362$222 – $693
Independent173$319$193 – $496

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$549
Median cash price$355
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

488 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $358 and the average of the middle 60% is $384; most fall between $225 and $663.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 488 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
$161$236$358$577$1,035

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($161 vs $1,035).

Of the 531 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 488 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

822 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 890 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted822
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 code890

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 Face,Nose,Lip 1.1-2 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 face, ear or lip, 1.1 to 2 cm (CPT 17282) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17282-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-face-ear-or-lip-1-1-to-2-cm