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

Surgical exploration of a penetrating wound of an arm or leg

CPT 20103the billing code this page is about

Opening and examining a stab, gunshot, or similar penetrating wound of an arm or leg in the operating room to check for damage and clean it out.

Hospitals typically charge $1,416 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,870 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,433. Most fall between $661 and $2,525 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,870
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 1,870 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
$425$785$1,416$2,153$3,651

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($425 vs $3,651).

How the prices are spread

$279 – $375: 66 hospitals$279$375 – $504: 65 hospitals$504 – $676: 161 hospitals$504$676 – $909: 204 hospitals$909 – $1,221: 243 hospitals$909$1,221 – $1,640: 254 hospitals$1,640 – $2,204: 340 hospitals$1,640$2,204 – $2,961: 154 hospitals$2,961 – $3,978: 133 hospitals$2,961$3,978 – $5,344: 66 hospitals$3,978median $1,416price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,686 of 1,870 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$279$37566
$375$50465
$504$676161
$676$909204
$909$1,221243
$1,221$1,640254
$1,640$2,204340
$2,204$2,961154
$2,961$3,978133
$3,978$5,34466

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,416
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $1,416.

Alaska: median $2,557 across 14 hospitalsAK$2,557Maine: median $961 across 19 hospitalsME$961Vermont: median $871 across 10 hospitalsVT$871New Hampshire: median $597 across 12 hospitalsNH$597Washington: median $1,290 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,290Idaho: median $1,020 across 19 hospitalsID$1,020Montana: median $941 across 23 hospitalsMT$941North Dakota: median $1,250 across 13 hospitalsND$1,250Minnesota: median $1,199 across 59 hospitalsMN$1,199Illinois: median $1,380 across 69 hospitalsIL$1,380Wisconsin: median $1,461 across 69 hospitalsWI$1,461Michigan: median $1,585 across 60 hospitalsMI$1,585New York: median $1,890 across 82 hospitalsNY$1,890Massachusetts: median $1,301 across 33 hospitalsMA$1,301Oregon: median $1,379 across 46 hospitalsOR$1,379Nevada: median $1,575 across 12 hospitalsNV$1,575Wyoming: median $1,125 across 13 hospitalsWY$1,125South Dakota: median $1,554 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,554Iowa: median $939 across 56 hospitalsIA$939Indiana: median $816 across 40 hospitalsIN$816Ohio: median $1,241 across 75 hospitalsOH$1,241Pennsylvania: median $1,954 across 82 hospitalsPA$1,954New Jersey: median $2,162 across 49 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $1,186 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,186Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,994 across 110 hospitalsCA$1,994Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,331 across 43 hospitalsCO$1,331Nebraska: median $1,071 across 42 hospitalsNE$1,071Missouri: median $1,429 across 40 hospitalsMO$1,429Kentucky: median $833 across 24 hospitalsKY$833West Virginia: median $939 across 32 hospitalsWV$939Virginia: median $1,075 across 51 hospitalsVA$1,075Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,607 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,607New Mexico: median $933 across 19 hospitalsNM$933Kansas: median $554 across 47 hospitalsKS$554Arkansas: median $1,013 across 21 hospitalsAR$1,013Tennessee: median $534 across 25 hospitalsTN$534North Carolina: median $1,128 across 43 hospitalsNC$1,128South Carolina: median $1,422 across 18 hospitalsSC$1,422Oklahoma: median $1,040 across 44 hospitalsOK$1,040Louisiana: median $719 across 34 hospitalsLA$719Mississippi: median $800 across 33 hospitalsMS$800Alabama: median $1,521 across 21 hospitalsAL$1,521Georgia: median $2,324 across 57 hospitalsGA$2,324Hawaii: median $2,627 across 12 hospitalsHI$2,627Texas: median $1,656 across 121 hospitalsTX$1,656Florida: median $1,948 across 54 hospitalsFL$1,948
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,416. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI12$2,627+86%$2,060 – $3,197
Alaska AK14$2,557+81%$862 – $3,071
Georgia GA57$2,324+64%$679 – $5,253
New Jersey NJ49$2,162+53%$1,793 – $5,110
California CA110$1,994+41%$1,225 – $2,639
Pennsylvania PA82$1,954+38%$527 – $3,489
Florida FL54$1,948+38%$1,063 – $3,139
New York NY82$1,890+33%$837 – $3,080
Texas TX121$1,656+17%$1,009 – $2,099
Arizona AZ11$1,607+13%$801 – $2,285
Michigan MI60$1,585+12%$673 – $2,344
Nevada NV12$1,575+11%$647 – $2,081
South Dakota SD15$1,554+10%$487 – $1,686
Alabama AL21$1,521+7%$740 – $3,318
Wisconsin WI69$1,461+3%$1,043 – $1,871
Missouri MO40$1,429+1%$837 – $2,712
South Carolina SC18$1,4220%$1,352 – $3,401
Illinois IL69$1,380−3%$775 – $2,771
Oregon OR46$1,379−3%$717 – $2,701
Colorado CO43$1,331−6%$811 – $2,198
Massachusetts MA33$1,301−8%$894 – $2,520
Washington WA63$1,290−9%$846 – $3,098
North Dakota ND13$1,250−12%$885 – $1,664
Ohio OH75$1,241−12%$686 – $2,101
Minnesota MN59$1,199−15%$692 – $1,751
Connecticut CT17$1,186−16%$807 – $3,577
North Carolina NC43$1,128−20%$348 – $2,186
Wyoming WY13$1,125−21%$433 – $1,762
Virginia VA51$1,075−24%$625 – $2,084
Nebraska NE42$1,071−24%$845 – $1,764
Oklahoma OK44$1,040−27%$568 – $2,695
Idaho ID19$1,020−28%$626 – $3,570
Arkansas AR21$1,013−28%$361 – $1,847
Maine ME19$961−32%$585 – $1,629
Montana MT23$941−34%$520 – $1,684
West Virginia WV32$939−34%$364 – $2,446
Iowa IA56$939−34%$556 – $1,544
New Mexico NM19$933−34%$779 – $5,721
Vermont VT10$871−38%$689 – $1,390
Kentucky KY24$833−41%$424 – $1,755
Indiana IN40$816−42%$574 – $2,363
Mississippi MS33$800−44%$455 – $2,310
Louisiana LA34$719−49%$418 – $1,202
New Hampshire NH12$597−58%$337 – $871
Kansas KS47$554−61%$323 – $1,251
Tennessee TN25$534−62%$222 – $1,718
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $1,416.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,287$1,626$719 – $2,924
Children’s27$1,557$791 – $2,755
Critical access551$1,047$587 – $1,816
Ownership
For-profit187$1,716$775 – $3,401
Government388$1,175$600 – $2,104
Non-profit1,290$1,461$672 – $2,482
System affiliation
Part of a system1,456$1,531$709 – $2,639
Independent414$1,115$560 – $2,109

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,084
Median cash price$1,416
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

1,356 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,461 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,476; most fall between $673 and $2,627.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,356 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
$437$802$1,461$2,236$3,672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($437 vs $3,672).

Of the 1,453 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,356 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,870 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,015 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,870
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,015

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 Exploration Penetrating Wound Spx Extremity.

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, “Surgical exploration of a penetrating wound of an arm or leg (CPT 20103) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20103-surgical-exploration-of-a-penetrating-wound-of-an-arm-or-leg