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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Wide removal of face or scalp tumor, 2 cm or more

CPT 21016the billing code this page is about

Extensive surgical removal of a soft tissue tumor of the face or scalp along with a margin of surrounding tissue, for a tumor 2 centimeters or larger.

Hospitals typically charge $3,329 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 338 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,241. Most fall between $1,622 and $4,906 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
338
States
43
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 338 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
$1,147$1,795$3,329$4,839$7,473

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,147 vs $7,473).

How the prices are spread

$876 – $1,101: 17 hospitals$876$1,101 – $1,384: 23 hospitals$1,384 – $1,738: 29 hospitals$1,384$1,738 – $2,184: 28 hospitals$2,184 – $2,745: 26 hospitals$2,184$2,745 – $3,449: 50 hospitals$3,449 – $4,333: 38 hospitals$3,449$4,333 – $5,445: 55 hospitals$5,445 – $6,841: 12 hospitals$5,445$6,841 – $8,596: 36 hospitals$6,841median $3,329price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (314 of 338 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$876$1,10117
$1,101$1,38423
$1,384$1,73829
$1,738$2,18428
$2,184$2,74526
$2,745$3,44950
$3,449$4,33338
$4,333$5,44555
$5,445$6,84112
$6,841$8,59636

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$3,329
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $3,329.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,383 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,383Wisconsin: median $4,861 across 21 hospitalsWI$4,861Michigan: median $2,139 across 16 hospitalsMI$2,139New York: median $3,387 across 21 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,848 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,848Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,490 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,490Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,706 across 20 hospitalsPA$1,706New Jersey: median $3,819 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,596 across 31 hospitalsCA$8,596Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,108 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,108Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,657 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,657Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,181 across 21 hospitalsTX$4,181Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,329. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA31$8,596+158%$2,854 – $8,596
Wisconsin WI21$4,861+46%$4,611 – $4,861
Texas TX21$4,181+26%$4,181 – $4,606
New Jersey NJ31$3,819+15%$3,171 – $5,339
New York NY21$3,387+2%$2,968 – $3,448
Iowa IA17$2,490−25%$2,490 – $2,490
Michigan MI16$2,139−36%$1,448 – $3,994
Oregon OR10$1,848−44%$1,848 – $3,329
Pennsylvania PA20$1,706−49%$622 – $4,839
Oklahoma OK13$1,657−50%$1,657 – $3,224
Illinois IL11$1,383−58%$1,273 – $1,823
West Virginia WV10$1,108−67%$1,031 – $2,819
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,329.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care275$3,371$1,657 – $5,033
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access53$2,899$1,273 – $4,861
Ownership
For-profit32$3,557$1,273 – $4,978
Government47$2,869$1,805 – $4,530
Non-profit258$3,371$1,622 – $4,861
System affiliation
Part of a system280$3,387$1,622 – $5,110
Independent58$2,387$1,706 – $3,819

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,638
Median cash price$3,329
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

203 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,580 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,030; most fall between $1,448 and $4,861.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 203 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
$1,224$1,652$2,580$4,861$7,765

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,224 vs $7,765).

Of the 225 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 203 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

338 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 383 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted338
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code383

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Rad Resection Tumor Soft Tiss Face/Scalp 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, “Wide removal of face or scalp tumor, 2 cm or more (CPT 21016) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21016-wide-removal-of-face-or-scalp-tumor-2-cm-or-more