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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Mohs skin cancer surgery, trunk or limbs, first stage

CPT 17313the billing code this page is about

Removal of skin cancer in stages with microscope examination of the tissue during the procedure; this code covers the first stage on the trunk, arms or legs, up to five tissue blocks.

Hospitals typically charge $1,083 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 458 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,103. Most fall between $657 and $1,658 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
458
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 458 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
$456$688$1,083$1,531$2,062

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($456 vs $2,062).

How the prices are spread

$309 – $393: 20 hospitals$309$393 – $500: 10 hospitals$500 – $636: 34 hospitals$500$636 – $810: 75 hospitals$810 – $1,030: 60 hospitals$810$1,030 – $1,311: 81 hospitals$1,311 – $1,668: 79 hospitals$1,311$1,668 – $2,122: 34 hospitals$2,122 – $2,701: 10 hospitals$2,122$2,701 – $3,436: 15 hospitals$2,701median $1,083price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (418 of 458 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$309$39320
$393$50010
$500$63634
$636$81075
$810$1,03060
$1,030$1,31181
$1,311$1,66879
$1,668$2,12234
$2,122$2,70110
$2,701$3,43615

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$755
Median cash price$1,083
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.43×

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 $1,083.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 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 $932 across 27 hospitalsMN$932Illinois: median $854 across 20 hospitalsIL$854Wisconsin: median $1,420 across 34 hospitalsWI$1,420Michigan: median $1,016 across 13 hospitalsMI$1,016New York: median $724 across 26 hospitalsNY$724Massachusetts: median $1,253 across 14 hospitalsMA$1,253Oregon: median $1,167 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,167Nevada: 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 $1,531 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,531Indiana: 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 $951 across 41 hospitalsPA$951New Jersey: median $2,239 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,239Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,658 across 27 hospitalsCA$1,658Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 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 $903 across 10 hospitalsWV$903Virginia: 7 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: 2 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,107 across 12 hospitalsNC$1,107South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $523 across 12 hospitalsOK$523Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $688 across 10 hospitalsMS$688Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $730 across 10 hospitalsGA$730Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,222 across 21 hospitalsTX$1,222Florida: median $1,020 across 15 hospitalsFL$1,020
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,083. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ24$2,239+107%$678 – $5,419
California CA27$1,658+53%$979 – $1,658
Iowa IA16$1,531+41%$1,531 – $1,531
Wisconsin WI34$1,420+31%$1,094 – $3,436
Massachusetts MA14$1,253+16%$1,022 – $1,900
Texas TX21$1,222+13%$1,221 – $1,222
Oregon OR15$1,167+8%$977 – $1,558
North Carolina NC12$1,107+2%$1,107 – $1,107
Florida FL15$1,020−6%$767 – $1,492
Michigan MI13$1,016−6%$327 – $1,420
Pennsylvania PA41$951−12%$240 – $3,076
Minnesota MN27$932−14%$768 – $1,897
West Virginia WV10$903−17%$763 – $1,083
Illinois IL20$854−21%$508 – $1,531
Georgia GA10$730−33%$730 – $730
New York NY26$724−33%$724 – $1,562
Mississippi MS10$688−36%$688 – $886
Oklahoma OK12$523−52%$523 – $523
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not 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
Vermont VT2not 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 $1,083.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care372$1,041$630 – $1,658
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access81$1,094$706 – $1,558
Ownership
For-profit29$860$656 – $1,420
Government62$811$564 – $1,132
Non-profit366$1,094$678 – $1,658
System affiliation
Part of a system398$1,107$686 – $1,658
Independent60$660$440 – $1,132

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,714
Median cash price$1,083
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

304 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,107 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,151; most fall between $656 and $1,658.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 304 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
$504$706$1,107$1,561$2,120

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($504 vs $2,120).

Of the 332 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 304 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

458 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 489 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted458
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code489

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 23, 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 Trunk/Arm/Leg 1st Stage 5 Blocks.

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, “Mohs skin cancer surgery, trunk or limbs, first stage (CPT 17313) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17313-mohs-skin-cancer-surgery-trunk-or-limbs-first-stage