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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of deep face or scalp growth, under 2 cm

CPT 21013the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue tumor located beneath the fascia or within the muscle of the face or scalp, measuring less than 2 centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $1,746 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 618 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,795. Most fall between $788 and $3,705 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
618
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 618 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
$578$960$1,746$2,916$4,952

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($578 vs $4,952).

How the prices are spread

$420 – $557: 27 hospitals$420$557 – $739: 55 hospitals$739 – $981: 52 hospitals$739$981 – $1,301: 57 hospitals$1,301 – $1,726: 84 hospitals$1,301$1,726 – $2,289: 121 hospitals$2,289 – $3,037: 43 hospitals$2,289$3,037 – $4,028: 50 hospitals$4,028 – $5,344: 46 hospitals$4,028$5,344 – $7,089: 23 hospitals$5,344median $1,746price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (558 of 618 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$420$55727
$557$73955
$739$98152
$981$1,30157
$1,301$1,72684
$1,726$2,289121
$2,289$3,03743
$3,037$4,02850
$4,028$5,34446
$5,344$7,08923

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,746
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $1,746.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,972 across 12 hospitalsWA$1,972Idaho: median $1,700 across 10 hospitalsID$1,700Montana: 4 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 $1,384 across 27 hospitalsMN$1,384Illinois: median $1,329 across 24 hospitalsIL$1,329Wisconsin: median $2,116 across 36 hospitalsWI$2,116Michigan: median $2,116 across 26 hospitalsMI$2,116New York: median $1,687 across 39 hospitalsNY$1,687Massachusetts: median $1,430 across 15 hospitalsMA$1,430Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,301 across 24 hospitalsIA$1,301Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,812 across 21 hospitalsOH$1,812Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 34 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $2,162 across 33 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,150 across 39 hospitalsCA$4,150Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,355 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,355Missouri: median $847 across 14 hospitalsMO$847Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,230 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,230Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $3,142 across 11 hospitalsAR$3,142Tennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,923 across 15 hospitalsNC$3,923South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $662 across 14 hospitalsOK$662Louisiana: median $1,726 across 13 hospitalsLA$1,726Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,586 across 21 hospitalsGA$1,586Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,206 across 26 hospitalsTX$2,206Florida: median $3,625 across 17 hospitalsFL$3,625
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,746. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$4,150+138%$1,189 – $4,150
North Carolina NC15$3,923+125%$1,091 – $3,923
Florida FL17$3,625+108%$1,626 – $7,105
Arkansas AR11$3,142+80%$1,366 – $5,172
Texas TX26$2,206+26%$1,717 – $2,317
New Jersey NJ33$2,162+24%$1,795 – $5,419
Michigan MI26$2,116+21%$754 – $3,705
Wisconsin WI36$2,116+21%$1,338 – $2,116
Washington WA12$1,972+13%$1,003 – $4,039
Pennsylvania PA34$1,900+9%$272 – $9,115
Ohio OH21$1,812+4%$761 – $4,844
Louisiana LA13$1,726−1%$969 – $3,907
Idaho ID10$1,700−3%$765 – $4,347
New York NY39$1,687−3%$676 – $1,960
Georgia GA21$1,586−9%$1,586 – $5,810
Massachusetts MA15$1,430−18%$555 – $2,989
Minnesota MN27$1,384−21%$960 – $1,780
Nebraska NE12$1,355−22%$863 – $1,774
Illinois IL24$1,329−24%$729 – $2,255
Iowa IA24$1,301−25%$1,002 – $1,301
West Virginia WV15$1,230−30%$418 – $6,133
Missouri MO14$847−51%$773 – $2,097
Oklahoma OK14$662−62%$662 – $3,301
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,746.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care475$1,795$834 – $3,926
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access124$1,372$631 – $2,116
Ownership
For-profit49$1,746$662 – $3,705
Government111$1,494$849 – $3,923
Non-profit457$1,780$817 – $3,625
System affiliation
Part of a system487$1,802$834 – $3,923
Independent131$1,355$754 – $2,383

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,243
Median cash price$1,746
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

372 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,586 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,681; most fall between $729 and $3,539.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 372 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
$591$893$1,586$2,801$4,150

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($591 vs $4,150).

Of the 403 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 372 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

618 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 678 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted618
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code678

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 therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Tumor Soft Tiss Face&Scalp Subfascial <2cm.

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 deep face or scalp growth, under 2 cm (CPT 21013) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21013-removal-of-deep-face-or-scalp-growth-under-2-cm