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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Unlisted procedure on the skin or underlying tissue

CPT 17999the billing code this page is about

Used for a procedure on the skin, mucous membrane or tissue just beneath the skin that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $389 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,485 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $504. Most fall between $183 and $1,598 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,485
States
50
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 1,485 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
$116$215$389$1,124$4,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 35× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $4,066).

How the prices are spread

$71 – $111: 70 hospitals$71$111 – $172: 117 hospitals$172 – $267: 256 hospitals$172$267 – $414: 265 hospitals$414 – $643: 223 hospitals$414$643 – $999: 92 hospitals$999 – $1,551: 74 hospitals$999$1,551 – $2,408: 78 hospitals$2,408 – $3,739: 76 hospitals$2,408$3,739 – $5,805: 90 hospitals$3,739median $389price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,341 of 1,485 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$71$11170
$111$172117
$172$267256
$267$414265
$414$643223
$643$99992
$999$1,55174
$1,551$2,40878
$2,408$3,73976
$3,739$5,80590

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$389
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.90×

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 $389.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $207 across 11 hospitalsME$207Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $480 across 44 hospitalsWA$480Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $204 across 10 hospitalsND$204Minnesota: median $232 across 47 hospitalsMN$232Illinois: median $378 across 69 hospitalsIL$378Wisconsin: median $269 across 45 hospitalsWI$269Michigan: median $354 across 54 hospitalsMI$354New York: median $396 across 80 hospitalsNY$396Massachusetts: median $400 across 38 hospitalsMA$400Oregon: median $384 across 25 hospitalsOR$384Nevada: 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: median $492 across 10 hospitalsSD$492Iowa: median $270 across 31 hospitalsIA$270Indiana: median $349 across 32 hospitalsIN$349Ohio: median $534 across 73 hospitalsOH$534Pennsylvania: median $306 across 73 hospitalsPA$306New Jersey: median $3,786 across 40 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: median $392 across 16 hospitalsCT$392Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,452 across 102 hospitalsCA$1,452Utah: median $369 across 26 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $558 across 34 hospitalsCO$558Nebraska: median $155 across 25 hospitalsNE$155Missouri: median $259 across 43 hospitalsMO$259Kentucky: median $236 across 12 hospitalsKY$236West Virginia: median $308 across 24 hospitalsWV$308Virginia: median $487 across 31 hospitalsVA$487Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $449 across 17 hospitalsAZ$449New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $221 across 18 hospitalsKS$221Arkansas: median $237 across 16 hospitalsAR$237Tennessee: median $251 across 26 hospitalsTN$251North Carolina: median $1,100 across 25 hospitalsNC$1,100South Carolina: median $4,772 across 27 hospitalsSC$4,772Oklahoma: median $139 across 30 hospitalsOK$139Louisiana: median $259 across 15 hospitalsLA$259Mississippi: median $94 across 18 hospitalsMS$94Alabama: median $375 across 18 hospitalsAL$375Georgia: median $637 across 49 hospitalsGA$637Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $351 across 117 hospitalsTX$351Florida: median $479 across 58 hospitalsFL$479
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $389. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC27$4,772+1127%$425 – $5,805
New Jersey NJ40$3,786+873%$234 – $6,311
California CA102$1,452+273%$226 – $4,066
North Carolina NC25$1,100+183%$299 – $3,567
Georgia GA49$637+64%$224 – $1,606
Colorado CO34$558+43%$215 – $3,365
Ohio OH73$534+37%$320 – $1,561
South Dakota SD10$492+26%$201 – $492
Virginia VA31$487+25%$284 – $1,326
Washington WA44$480+23%$274 – $1,598
Florida FL58$479+23%$240 – $1,820
Arizona AZ17$449+15%$246 – $1,116
Massachusetts MA38$400+3%$143 – $761
New York NY80$396+2%$217 – $1,538
Connecticut CT16$392+1%$203 – $3,305
Oregon OR25$384−1%$158 – $931
Illinois IL69$378−3%$189 – $1,064
Alabama AL18$375−4%$158 – $9,610
Utah UT26$369−5%$328 – $433
Michigan MI54$354−9%$187 – $665
Texas TX117$351−10%$200 – $1,420
Indiana IN32$349−10%$151 – $671
West Virginia WV24$308−21%$229 – $752
Pennsylvania PA73$306−21%$197 – $1,068
Iowa IA31$270−31%$151 – $482
Wisconsin WI45$269−31%$199 – $353
Louisiana LA15$259−33%$70 – $323
Missouri MO43$259−33%$141 – $1,921
Tennessee TN26$251−36%$134 – $2,325
Arkansas AR16$237−39%$142 – $1,992
Kentucky KY12$236−39%$202 – $282
Minnesota MN47$232−40%$148 – $722
Kansas KS18$221−43%$104 – $355
Maine ME11$207−47%$99 – $618
North Dakota ND10$204−48%$43 – $271
Nebraska NE25$155−60%$48 – $293
Oklahoma OK30$139−64%$139 – $619
Mississippi MS18$94−76%$51 – $210
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $389.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,192$410$197 – $1,820
Children’s47$994$248 – $2,771
Critical access240$281$144 – $548
Ownership
For-profit149$515$171 – $2,017
Government231$281$147 – $836
Non-profit1,099$400$201 – $1,650
System affiliation
Part of a system1,239$410$199 – $1,801
Independent246$282$143 – $902

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$624
Median cash price$389
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,026 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $407 and the average of the middle 60% is $465; most fall between $183 and $1,337.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,026 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
$109$214$407$852$2,970

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $2,970).

Of the 1,111 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,026 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,485 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,629 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,485
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code1,629

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Unlisted Px Skin Muc Membrane & Subq Tissue.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the skin or underlying tissue (CPT 17999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-17999-unlisted-procedure-on-the-skin-or-underlying-tissue