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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of soft tissue growth on face or scalp, 2 cm or more

CPT 21012the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue tumor lying just under the skin of the face or scalp, measuring 2 centimeters or larger.

Hospitals typically charge $1,650 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,163 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,842. Most fall between $662 and $4,440 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,163
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 1,163 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
$473$766$1,650$3,489$6,133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($473 vs $6,133).

How the prices are spread

$337 – $474: 60 hospitals$337$474 – $669: 118 hospitals$669 – $942: 153 hospitals$669$942 – $1,328: 118 hospitals$1,328 – $1,872: 125 hospitals$1,328$1,872 – $2,638: 141 hospitals$2,638 – $3,718: 114 hospitals$2,638$3,718 – $5,241: 107 hospitals$5,241 – $7,386: 71 hospitals$5,241$7,386 – $10,410: 40 hospitals$7,386median $1,650price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,047 of 1,163 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$337$47460
$474$669118
$669$942153
$942$1,328118
$1,328$1,872125
$1,872$2,638141
$2,638$3,718114
$3,718$5,241107
$5,241$7,38671
$7,386$10,41040

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,650
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.98×

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 $1,650.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $748 across 11 hospitalsME$748Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $509 across 11 hospitalsNH$509Washington: median $822 across 30 hospitalsWA$822Idaho: median $1,915 across 17 hospitalsID$1,915Montana: median $505 across 12 hospitalsMT$505North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,085 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,085Illinois: median $1,329 across 45 hospitalsIL$1,329Wisconsin: median $1,104 across 54 hospitalsWI$1,104Michigan: median $1,748 across 50 hospitalsMI$1,748New York: median $1,917 across 76 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $1,915 across 25 hospitalsMA$1,915Oregon: median $631 across 24 hospitalsOR$631Nevada: median $1,796 across 10 hospitalsNV$1,796Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $828 across 53 hospitalsIA$828Indiana: median $662 across 20 hospitalsIN$662Ohio: median $3,845 across 63 hospitalsOH$3,845Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 50 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 35 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,896 across 71 hospitalsCA$2,896Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $832 across 14 hospitalsCO$832Nebraska: median $973 across 26 hospitalsNE$973Missouri: median $1,048 across 27 hospitalsMO$1,048Kentucky: median $615 across 13 hospitalsKY$615West Virginia: median $1,899 across 28 hospitalsWV$1,899Virginia: median $2,050 across 32 hospitalsVA$2,050Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,115 across 11 hospitalsAZ$2,115New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $717 across 28 hospitalsKS$717Arkansas: median $1,591 across 12 hospitalsAR$1,591Tennessee: median $2,065 across 13 hospitalsTN$2,065North Carolina: median $1,764 across 18 hospitalsNC$1,764South Carolina: median $2,111 across 12 hospitalsSC$2,111Oklahoma: median $710 across 15 hospitalsOK$710Louisiana: median $868 across 24 hospitalsLA$868Mississippi: median $1,024 across 18 hospitalsMS$1,024Alabama: median $1,852 across 15 hospitalsAL$1,852Georgia: median $2,017 across 27 hospitalsGA$2,017Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,679 across 43 hospitalsTX$2,679Florida: median $4,440 across 23 hospitalsFL$4,440
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,650. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL23$4,440+169%$2,304 – $7,145
Ohio OH63$3,845+133%$1,171 – $8,387
California CA71$2,896+76%$1,138 – $5,958
Texas TX43$2,679+62%$1,408 – $3,339
New Jersey NJ35$2,162+31%$1,793 – $5,339
Arizona AZ11$2,115+28%$1,222 – $12,326
South Carolina SC12$2,111+28%$1,746 – $6,968
Tennessee TN13$2,065+25%$403 – $5,154
Virginia VA32$2,050+24%$996 – $8,089
Georgia GA27$2,017+22%$1,648 – $5,810
Pennsylvania PA50$1,951+18%$266 – $4,532
New York NY76$1,917+16%$607 – $4,595
Idaho ID17$1,915+16%$844 – $3,570
Massachusetts MA25$1,915+16%$1,160 – $3,028
West Virginia WV28$1,899+15%$582 – $6,133
Alabama AL15$1,852+12%$684 – $7,858
Nevada NV10$1,796+9%$1,214 – $3,360
North Carolina NC18$1,764+7%$766 – $3,746
Michigan MI50$1,748+6%$656 – $4,703
Arkansas AR12$1,591−4%$751 – $4,668
Illinois IL45$1,329−19%$578 – $2,973
Wisconsin WI54$1,104−33%$918 – $1,981
Minnesota MN37$1,085−34%$566 – $1,462
Missouri MO27$1,048−37%$553 – $3,322
Mississippi MS18$1,024−38%$567 – $5,154
Nebraska NE26$973−41%$592 – $1,767
Louisiana LA24$868−47%$548 – $2,985
Colorado CO14$832−50%$591 – $2,368
Iowa IA53$828−50%$611 – $1,603
Washington WA30$822−50%$672 – $2,432
Maine ME11$748−55%$288 – $1,085
Kansas KS28$717−57%$337 – $2,030
Oklahoma OK15$710−57%$710 – $1,917
Indiana IN20$662−60%$391 – $4,479
Oregon OR24$631−62%$429 – $995
Kentucky KY13$615−63%$378 – $1,603
New Hampshire NH11$509−69%$280 – $1,065
Montana MT12$505−69%$378 – $1,038
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $1,650.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care823$2,017$777 – $4,972
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access322$918$553 – $2,058
Ownership
For-profit108$2,745$1,132 – $8,174
Government229$1,125$617 – $2,447
Non-profit824$1,679$677 – $4,595
System affiliation
Part of a system898$1,895$710 – $4,800
Independent265$1,084$614 – $2,383

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,141
Median cash price$1,650
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

613 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,234 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,545; most fall between $607 and $3,339.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 613 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
$424$683$1,234$2,896$4,844

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($424 vs $4,844).

Of the 679 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 613 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,163 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 1,269 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,163
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,269

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 Excision of skin lesion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Tumor Soft Tiss Face/Scalp Subq 2 Cm/>.

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 soft tissue growth on face or scalp, 2 cm or more (CPT 21012) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21012-removal-of-soft-tissue-growth-on-face-or-scalp-2-cm-or-more