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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Mohs surgery, face or hands, each additional stage

CPT 17312the billing code this page is about

Covers one further stage of staged skin cancer removal with microscope review on the head, neck, hands, feet or genitals, up to five tissue blocks per stage, billed in addition to the first stage.

Hospitals typically charge $688 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 412 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $715. Most fall between $332 and $1,047 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
412
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 412 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$444$688$1,013$1,686

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($214 vs $1,686).

How the prices are spread

$127 – $169: 9 hospitals$127$169 – $226: 18 hospitals$226 – $301: 22 hospitals$226$301 – $402: 28 hospitals$402 – $537: 40 hospitals$402$537 – $716: 82 hospitals$716 – $956: 68 hospitals$716$956 – $1,275: 67 hospitals$1,275 – $1,702: 19 hospitals$1,275$1,702 – $2,272: 19 hospitals$1,702median $688price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (372 of 412 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$127$1699
$169$22618
$226$30122
$301$40228
$402$53740
$537$71682
$716$95668
$956$1,27567
$1,275$1,70219
$1,702$2,27219

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $688.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $609 across 26 hospitalsMN$609Illinois: median $454 across 19 hospitalsIL$454Wisconsin: median $688 across 35 hospitalsWI$688Michigan: median $220 across 13 hospitalsMI$220New York: median $676 across 14 hospitalsNY$676Massachusetts: median $932 across 10 hospitalsMA$932Oregon: median $751 across 10 hospitalsOR$751Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $978 across 16 hospitalsIA$978Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $259 across 31 hospitalsPA$259New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,047 across 27 hospitalsCA$1,047Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 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 $763 across 10 hospitalsWV$763Virginia: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $827 across 12 hospitalsNC$827South Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $310 across 11 hospitalsOK$310Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $335 across 10 hospitalsMS$335Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $585 across 10 hospitalsGA$585Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,013 across 23 hospitalsTX$1,013Florida: median $722 across 13 hospitalsFL$722
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $688. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+643%$4,350 – $5,855
California CA27$1,047+52%$734 – $1,047
Texas TX23$1,013+47%$971 – $1,029
Iowa IA16$978+42%$978 – $978
Massachusetts MA10$932+36%$639 – $1,403
North Carolina NC12$827+20%$827 – $827
West Virginia WV10$763+11%$529 – $840
Oregon OR10$751+9%$481 – $751
Florida FL13$722+5%$636 – $1,206
Wisconsin WI35$6880%$676 – $1,713
New York NY14$676−2%$334 – $1,350
Minnesota MN26$609−11%$593 – $1,107
Georgia GA10$585−15%$585 – $585
Illinois IL19$454−34%$444 – $1,217
Mississippi MS10$335−51%$335 – $556
Oklahoma OK11$310−55%$310 – $310
Pennsylvania PA31$259−62%$100 – $1,838
Michigan MI13$220−68%$194 – $676
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $688.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care327$718$310 – $1,047
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access80$671$454 – $978
Ownership
For-profit26$585$454 – $1,494
Government55$701$426 – $827
Non-profit331$688$310 – $1,047
System affiliation
Part of a system354$700$335 – $1,047
Independent58$486$283 – $812

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,128
Median cash price$688
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

286 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $688 and the average of the middle 60% is $744; most fall between $419 and $1,047.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 286 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
$271$454$688$1,013$1,676

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($271 vs $1,676).

Of the 329 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 286 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

412 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 471 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted412
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code471

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Mohs Micrographic H/N/H/F/G Each Addl Stage.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Mohs surgery, face or hands, each additional stage (CPT 17312) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17312-mohs-surgery-face-or-hands-each-additional-stage