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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Destruction of skin cancer on face, ear or lip, 3.1 to 4 cm

CPT 17284the billing code this page is about

Destroys a single malignant skin lesion measuring 3.1 to 4.0 cm on the face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth lining using freezing, burning, laser, or chemicals.

Hospitals typically charge $602 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 504 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $632. Most fall between $327 and $1,141 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
504
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 504 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
$230$372$602$968$1,714

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($230 vs $1,714).

How the prices are spread

$192 – $243: 34 hospitals$192$243 – $306: 26 hospitals$306 – $387: 49 hospitals$306$387 – $488: 38 hospitals$488 – $616: 84 hospitals$488$616 – $778: 82 hospitals$778 – $983: 42 hospitals$778$983 – $1,241: 30 hospitals$1,241 – $1,567: 35 hospitals$1,241$1,567 – $1,979: 34 hospitals$1,567median $602price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (454 of 504 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$192$24334
$243$30626
$306$38749
$387$48838
$488$61684
$616$77882
$778$98342
$983$1,24130
$1,241$1,56735
$1,567$1,97934

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$602
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.80×

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 $602.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $549 across 10 hospitalsWA$549Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $678 across 18 hospitalsMN$678Illinois: median $506 across 19 hospitalsIL$506Wisconsin: median $495 across 24 hospitalsWI$495Michigan: median $230 across 26 hospitalsMI$230New York: median $724 across 36 hospitalsNY$724Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $566 across 20 hospitalsOR$566Nevada: 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 $688 across 21 hospitalsIA$688Indiana: median $1,132 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,132Ohio: median $381 across 17 hospitalsOH$381Pennsylvania: median $440 across 24 hospitalsPA$440New Jersey: median $1,458 across 24 hospitalsNJ$1,458Connecticut: 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 27 hospitalsCA$1,714Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $568 across 11 hospitalsCO$568Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $840 across 10 hospitalsWV$840Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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 $454 across 13 hospitalsKS$454Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $225 across 11 hospitalsTN$225North 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 $327 across 13 hospitalsOK$327Louisiana: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $543 across 26 hospitalsTX$543Florida: median $1,364 across 16 hospitalsFL$1,364
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $602. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$1,714+184%$937 – $1,714
New Jersey NJ24$1,458+142%$678 – $5,419
Florida FL16$1,364+126%$1,127 – $2,265
Indiana IN18$1,132+88%$372 – $1,706
West Virginia WV10$840+39%$261 – $944
New York NY36$724+20%$412 – $954
Iowa IA21$688+14%$543 – $688
Minnesota MN18$678+13%$443 – $891
Colorado CO11$568−6%$568 – $587
Oregon OR20$566−6%$506 – $675
Washington WA10$549−9%$405 – $602
Texas TX26$543−10%$536 – $602
Illinois IL19$506−16%$346 – $966
Wisconsin WI24$495−18%$461 – $1,141
Kansas KS13$454−25%$329 – $520
Pennsylvania PA24$440−27%$129 – $1,066
Ohio OH17$381−37%$306 – $973
Oklahoma OK13$327−46%$327 – $327
Michigan MI26$230−62%$230 – $492
Tennessee TN11$225−63%$122 – $237
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not 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
Montana MT3not 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
Maryland MD1not 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 $602.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care372$656$327 – $1,263
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access129$520$348 – $968
Ownership
For-profit27$502$349 – $1,017
Government96$532$289 – $724
Non-profit381$675$340 – $1,263
System affiliation
Part of a system401$664$332 – $1,284
Independent103$511$316 – $810

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$860
Median cash price$602
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

277 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $558 and the average of the middle 60% is $609; most fall between $332 and $1,252.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 277 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
$262$372$558$990$1,714

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($262 vs $1,714).

Of the 297 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 277 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 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

504 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 538 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted504
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 code538

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 3.1-4 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, 3.1 to 4 cm (CPT 17284) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17284-destruction-of-skin-cancer-on-face-ear-or-lip-3-1-to-4-cm