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

Exploration of penetrating wound of abdomen, flank, or back

CPT 20102the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening and inspection of a penetrating wound of the abdomen, flank, or back to find and control bleeding and remove damaged or foreign material.

Hospitals typically charge $2,157 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,142 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,177. Most fall between $809 and $4,092 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,142
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 1,142 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
$483$986$2,157$3,578$5,685

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($483 vs $5,685).

How the prices are spread

$383 – $517: 71 hospitals$383$517 – $698: 69 hospitals$698 – $942: 75 hospitals$698$942 – $1,271: 89 hospitals$1,271 – $1,715: 114 hospitals$1,271$1,715 – $2,315: 145 hospitals$2,315 – $3,125: 191 hospitals$2,315$3,125 – $4,218: 108 hospitals$4,218 – $5,693: 109 hospitals$4,218$5,693 – $7,683: 65 hospitals$5,693median $2,157price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,036 of 1,142 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$383$51771
$517$69869
$698$94275
$942$1,27189
$1,271$1,715114
$1,715$2,315145
$2,315$3,125191
$3,125$4,218108
$4,218$5,693109
$5,693$7,68365

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$2,157
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.02×

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 $2,157.

Alaska: median $3,286 across 10 hospitalsAK$3,286Maine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 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 $1,910 across 42 hospitalsWA$1,910Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $665 across 14 hospitalsMT$665North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,808 across 30 hospitalsMN$1,808Illinois: median $1,990 across 43 hospitalsIL$1,990Wisconsin: median $1,662 across 41 hospitalsWI$1,662Michigan: median $1,671 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,671New York: median $2,165 across 45 hospitalsNY$2,165Massachusetts: median $1,760 across 17 hospitalsMA$1,760Oregon: median $986 across 34 hospitalsOR$986Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,017 across 12 hospitalsSD$4,017Iowa: median $1,251 across 34 hospitalsIA$1,251Indiana: median $1,573 across 29 hospitalsIN$1,573Ohio: median $908 across 21 hospitalsOH$908Pennsylvania: median $2,029 across 43 hospitalsPA$2,029New Jersey: median $5,110 across 38 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,578 across 94 hospitalsCA$3,578Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,904 across 23 hospitalsCO$1,904Nebraska: median $1,450 across 23 hospitalsNE$1,450Missouri: median $922 across 27 hospitalsMO$922Kentucky: median $1,168 across 14 hospitalsKY$1,168West Virginia: median $794 across 18 hospitalsWV$794Virginia: median $2,668 across 30 hospitalsVA$2,668Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $732 across 19 hospitalsKS$732Arkansas: median $1,486 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,486Tennessee: median $853 across 16 hospitalsTN$853North Carolina: median $3,278 across 19 hospitalsNC$3,278South Carolina: median $6,288 across 18 hospitalsSC$6,288Oklahoma: median $1,234 across 22 hospitalsOK$1,234Louisiana: median $2,065 across 18 hospitalsLA$2,065Mississippi: median $1,300 across 20 hospitalsMS$1,300Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,751 across 44 hospitalsGA$3,751Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,872 across 104 hospitalsTX$2,872Florida: median $2,816 across 39 hospitalsFL$2,816
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,157. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC18$6,288+192%$3,376 – $6,288
New Jersey NJ38$5,110+137%$2,154 – $8,392
South Dakota SD12$4,017+86%$1,334 – $4,232
Georgia GA44$3,751+74%$2,016 – $4,674
California CA94$3,578+66%$1,904 – $7,683
Alaska AK10$3,286+52%$2,119 – $3,366
North Carolina NC19$3,278+52%$1,129 – $3,278
Texas TX104$2,872+33%$1,682 – $5,165
Florida FL39$2,816+31%$1,836 – $5,571
Virginia VA30$2,668+24%$2,442 – $2,792
New York NY45$2,1650%$765 – $3,710
Louisiana LA18$2,065−4%$619 – $2,615
Pennsylvania PA43$2,029−6%$173 – $3,845
Illinois IL43$1,990−8%$753 – $3,806
Washington WA42$1,910−11%$870 – $4,567
Colorado CO23$1,904−12%$786 – $3,006
Minnesota MN30$1,808−16%$577 – $2,383
Massachusetts MA17$1,760−18%$1,121 – $3,362
Michigan MI27$1,671−23%$496 – $2,837
Wisconsin WI41$1,662−23%$1,319 – $3,094
Indiana IN29$1,573−27%$809 – $2,501
Arkansas AR10$1,486−31%$751 – $3,262
Nebraska NE23$1,450−33%$962 – $1,902
Mississippi MS20$1,300−40%$577 – $3,830
Iowa IA34$1,251−42%$526 – $1,754
Oklahoma OK22$1,234−43%$608 – $2,324
Kentucky KY14$1,168−46%$617 – $4,049
Oregon OR34$986−54%$528 – $2,869
Missouri MO27$922−57%$645 – $3,294
Ohio OH21$908−58%$456 – $2,620
Tennessee TN16$853−60%$444 – $2,419
West Virginia WV18$794−63%$285 – $2,815
Kansas KS19$732−66%$296 – $2,635
Montana MT14$665−69%$466 – $1,897
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $2,157.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care849$2,442$1,035 – $4,596
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access273$1,241$520 – $2,872
Ownership
For-profit103$2,640$809 – $5,148
Government227$1,678$656 – $3,278
Non-profit810$2,166$882 – $4,232
System affiliation
Part of a system898$2,301$985 – $4,559
Independent244$1,411$522 – $2,693

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,712
Median cash price$2,157
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

814 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,442 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,476; most fall between $910 and $4,596.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 814 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
$525$1,214$2,442$3,951$6,288

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($525 vs $6,288).

Of the 894 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 814 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 42 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,142 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,250 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,142
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
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 — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,250

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 Expl Penetrating Wound Spx Abdomen/Flank/Back.

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, “Exploration of penetrating wound of abdomen, flank, or back (CPT 20102) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20102-exploration-of-penetrating-wound-of-abdomen-flank-or-back