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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on face, ear or lip, 2.1 to 3 cm

CPT 17283the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion measuring 2.1 to 3.0 cm on the face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth lining using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $473 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 664 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $483. Most fall between $278 and $821 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
664
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 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 664 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
$201$301$473$683$1,109

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($201 vs $1,109).

How the prices are spread

$133 – $167: 9 hospitals$133$167 – $211: 31 hospitals$211 – $265: 42 hospitals$211$265 – $334: 78 hospitals$334 – $420: 71 hospitals$334$420 – $528: 145 hospitals$528 – $665: 86 hospitals$528$665 – $837: 40 hospitals$837 – $1,053: 37 hospitals$837$1,053 – $1,325: 59 hospitals$1,053median $473price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (598 of 664 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$133$1679
$167$21131
$211$26542
$265$33478
$334$42071
$420$528145
$528$66586
$665$83740
$837$1,05337
$1,053$1,32559

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$473
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.14×

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 $473.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 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 $498 across 16 hospitalsWA$498Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $413 across 25 hospitalsMN$413Illinois: median $399 across 25 hospitalsIL$399Wisconsin: median $433 across 45 hospitalsWI$433Michigan: median $435 across 33 hospitalsMI$435New York: median $473 across 42 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $445 across 20 hospitalsOR$445Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $536 across 24 hospitalsIA$536Indiana: median $955 across 21 hospitalsIN$955Ohio: median $286 across 22 hospitalsOH$286Pennsylvania: median $470 across 31 hospitalsPA$470New Jersey: median $579 across 26 hospitalsNJ$579Connecticut: 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 32 hospitalsCA$1,109Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $473 across 15 hospitalsCO$473Nebraska: median $423 across 15 hospitalsNE$423Missouri: median $386 across 11 hospitalsMO$386Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $468 across 11 hospitalsWV$468Virginia: median $663 across 23 hospitalsVA$663Maryland: 2 hospitals 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 $390 across 14 hospitalsKS$390Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $194 across 11 hospitalsTN$194North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $798 across 10 hospitalsSC$798Oklahoma: median $281 across 13 hospitalsOK$281Louisiana: median $219 across 17 hospitalsLA$219Mississippi: median $262 across 11 hospitalsMS$262Alabama: 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 $683 across 26 hospitalsTX$683Florida: median $1,246 across 21 hospitalsFL$1,246
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $473. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL21$1,246+164%$888 – $1,656
California CA32$1,109+135%$437 – $1,109
Indiana IN21$955+102%$300 – $1,209
South Carolina SC10$798+69%$520 – $798
Texas TX26$683+45%$497 – $774
Virginia VA23$663+40%$186 – $1,153
New Jersey NJ26$579+23%$443 – $5,339
Iowa IA24$536+13%$320 – $603
Washington WA16$498+5%$414 – $565
Colorado CO15$4730%$417 – $500
New York NY42$4730%$279 – $900
Pennsylvania PA31$470−1%$115 – $620
West Virginia WV11$468−1%$229 – $531
Oregon OR20$445−6%$238 – $575
Michigan MI33$435−8%$320 – $498
Wisconsin WI45$433−8%$387 – $600
Nebraska NE15$423−11%$211 – $577
Minnesota MN25$413−13%$300 – $851
Illinois IL25$399−16%$296 – $642
Kansas KS14$390−18%$249 – $633
Missouri MO11$386−18%$287 – $458
Ohio OH22$286−40%$229 – $722
Oklahoma OK13$281−41%$281 – $281
Mississippi MS11$262−45%$239 – $490
Louisiana LA17$219−54%$158 – $420
Tennessee TN11$194−59%$111 – $202
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not 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
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not 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 $473.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care469$474$278 – $888
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access186$417$279 – $658
Ownership
For-profit29$520$281 – $871
Government128$440$257 – $611
Non-profit506$473$281 – $851
System affiliation
Part of a system527$474$281 – $860
Independent137$420$268 – $603

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$684
Median cash price$473
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

377 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $445 and the average of the middle 60% is $482; most fall between $281 and $817.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 377 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
$201$301$445$722$1,109

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($201 vs $1,109).

Of the 408 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 377 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

664 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 713 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted664
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 code713

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 F/E/E/N/L/M 2.1-3.0cm.

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 face, ear or lip, 2.1 to 3 cm (CPT 17283) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17283-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-face-ear-or-lip-2-1-to-3-cm