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

Removal of scar tissue capsule around a breast implant

CPT 19371the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove the hardened scar tissue shell that has formed around a breast implant.

Hospitals typically charge $3,495 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 580 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,824. Most fall between $1,488 and $8,224 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
580
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 580 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
$1,118$1,625$3,495$7,599$16,154

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,118 vs $16,154).

How the prices are spread

$735 – $1,049: 24 hospitals$735$1,049 – $1,499: 78 hospitals$1,499 – $2,142: 105 hospitals$1,499$2,142 – $3,061: 44 hospitals$3,061 – $4,373: 64 hospitals$3,061$4,373 – $6,248: 65 hospitals$6,248 – $8,927: 65 hospitals$6,248$8,927 – $12,754: 34 hospitals$12,754 – $18,222: 22 hospitals$12,754$18,222 – $26,035: 31 hospitals$18,222median $3,495price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (532 of 580 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$735$1,04924
$1,049$1,49978
$1,499$2,142105
$2,142$3,06144
$3,061$4,37364
$4,373$6,24865
$6,248$8,92765
$8,927$12,75434
$12,754$18,22222
$18,222$26,03531

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$4,000
Median cash price$3,495
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.87×

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 $3,495.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $10,392 across 10 hospitalsID$10,392Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,353 across 19 hospitalsMN$4,353Illinois: median $1,341 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,341Wisconsin: median $2,506 across 32 hospitalsWI$2,506Michigan: median $1,541 across 34 hospitalsMI$1,541New York: median $4,531 across 48 hospitalsNY$4,531Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,716 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,716Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,948 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,948Indiana: median $1,118 across 12 hospitalsIN$1,118Ohio: median $2,934 across 20 hospitalsOH$2,934Pennsylvania: median $3,356 across 23 hospitalsPA$3,356New Jersey: median $4,627 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,293 across 53 hospitalsCA$2,293Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $3,495 across 14 hospitalsCO$3,495Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,953 across 11 hospitalsMO$1,953Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,626 across 16 hospitalsWV$1,626Virginia: median $1,705 across 10 hospitalsVA$1,705Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,218 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,218Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $10,780 across 12 hospitalsGA$10,780Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,960 across 31 hospitalsTX$3,960Florida: median $9,892 across 12 hospitalsFL$9,892
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,495. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA12$10,780+208%$3,801 – $10,780
Idaho ID10$10,392+197%$4,248 – $10,392
Florida FL12$9,892+183%$2,854 – $13,330
New Jersey NJ32$4,627+32%$4,238 – $8,702
New York NY48$4,531+30%$1,623 – $26,035
Minnesota MN19$4,353+25%$1,630 – $4,819
Texas TX31$3,960+13%$3,913 – $6,442
Colorado CO14$3,4950%$1,760 – $6,014
Pennsylvania PA23$3,356−4%$462 – $7,833
Ohio OH20$2,934−16%$1,951 – $19,505
Wisconsin WI32$2,506−28%$1,625 – $8,224
California CA53$2,293−34%$1,671 – $7,599
Missouri MO11$1,953−44%$1,609 – $19,811
Iowa IA19$1,948−44%$1,711 – $1,950
Oregon OR18$1,716−51%$1,318 – $7,652
Virginia VA10$1,705−51%$476 – $12,654
West Virginia WV16$1,626−53%$749 – $5,230
Michigan MI34$1,541−56%$1,488 – $5,384
Illinois IL16$1,341−62%$1,118 – $2,224
Oklahoma OK13$1,218−65%$1,218 – $6,679
Indiana IN12$1,118−68%$1,118 – $3,669
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $3,495.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care476$3,960$1,488 – $10,110
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access96$1,774$1,328 – $4,819
Ownership
For-profit64$4,540$1,625 – $12,095
Government82$2,388$1,288 – $6,300
Non-profit433$3,495$1,488 – $8,224
System affiliation
Part of a system459$3,960$1,488 – $9,841
Independent121$2,506$1,357 – $6,300

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,320
Median cash price$3,495
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

288 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,760 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,274; most fall between $1,226 and $5,946.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 288 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
$1,050$1,318$1,760$3,960$7,599

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,050 vs $7,599).

Of the 318 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 288 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

580 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 645 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted580
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code645

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 OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Peri-Implant Capsulectomy Breast Complete.

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, “Removal of scar tissue capsule around a breast implant (CPT 19371) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-19371-removal-of-scar-tissue-capsule-around-a-breast-implant