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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of soft tissue growth under skin of back, under 3 cm

CPT 21930the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a tumor or mass in the fatty tissue beneath the skin of the back or flank, measuring less than 3 centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $1,648 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,237 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,839. Most fall between $777 and $3,685 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,237
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 1,237 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
$536$922$1,648$3,168$5,864

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($536 vs $5,864).

How the prices are spread

$386 – $522: 58 hospitals$386$522 – $706: 93 hospitals$706 – $956: 120 hospitals$706$956 – $1,293: 177 hospitals$1,293 – $1,751: 125 hospitals$1,293$1,751 – $2,369: 160 hospitals$2,369 – $3,206: 139 hospitals$2,369$3,206 – $4,340: 102 hospitals$4,340 – $5,873: 79 hospitals$4,340$5,873 – $7,949: 62 hospitals$5,873median $1,648price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,115 of 1,237 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$386$52258
$522$70693
$706$956120
$956$1,293177
$1,293$1,751125
$1,751$2,369160
$2,369$3,206139
$3,206$4,340102
$4,340$5,87379
$5,873$7,94962

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,648
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 $1,648.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $815 across 12 hospitalsME$815Vermont: median $716 across 11 hospitalsVT$716New Hampshire: median $555 across 14 hospitalsNH$555Washington: median $1,309 across 32 hospitalsWA$1,309Idaho: median $1,788 across 16 hospitalsID$1,788Montana: median $537 across 15 hospitalsMT$537North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,382 across 50 hospitalsMN$1,382Illinois: median $1,820 across 50 hospitalsIL$1,820Wisconsin: median $1,775 across 58 hospitalsWI$1,775Michigan: median $1,038 across 47 hospitalsMI$1,038New York: median $1,687 across 62 hospitalsNY$1,687Massachusetts: median $3,148 across 33 hospitalsMA$3,148Oregon: median $1,341 across 29 hospitalsOR$1,341Nevada: 6 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 $1,376 across 12 hospitalsSD$1,376Iowa: median $1,201 across 43 hospitalsIA$1,201Indiana: median $1,935 across 33 hospitalsIN$1,935Ohio: median $2,531 across 56 hospitalsOH$2,531Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 53 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,137 across 36 hospitalsNJ$2,137Connecticut: median $2,130 across 11 hospitalsCT$2,130Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,818 across 70 hospitalsCA$2,818Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,278 across 20 hospitalsCO$1,278Nebraska: median $1,043 across 26 hospitalsNE$1,043Missouri: median $1,646 across 34 hospitalsMO$1,646Kentucky: median $884 across 14 hospitalsKY$884West Virginia: median $2,281 across 27 hospitalsWV$2,281Virginia: median $4,358 across 27 hospitalsVA$4,358Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,418 across 10 hospitalsAZ$1,418New Mexico: median $1,897 across 11 hospitalsNM$1,897Kansas: median $806 across 38 hospitalsKS$806Arkansas: median $1,432 across 17 hospitalsAR$1,432Tennessee: median $2,045 across 15 hospitalsTN$2,045North Carolina: median $2,677 across 26 hospitalsNC$2,677South Carolina: median $2,807 across 12 hospitalsSC$2,807Oklahoma: median $699 across 24 hospitalsOK$699Louisiana: median $1,780 across 23 hospitalsLA$1,780Mississippi: median $785 across 19 hospitalsMS$785Alabama: median $1,580 across 13 hospitalsAL$1,580Georgia: median $4,169 across 18 hospitalsGA$4,169Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,717 across 44 hospitalsTX$2,717Florida: median $2,305 across 30 hospitalsFL$2,305
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,648. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA27$4,358+164%$2,320 – $5,492
Georgia GA18$4,169+153%$1,762 – $5,810
Massachusetts MA33$3,148+91%$1,459 – $5,772
California CA70$2,818+71%$1,200 – $6,317
South Carolina SC12$2,807+70%$1,133 – $4,649
Texas TX44$2,717+65%$1,274 – $4,244
North Carolina NC26$2,677+62%$1,093 – $2,788
Ohio OH56$2,531+54%$681 – $6,737
Florida FL30$2,305+40%$1,626 – $5,737
West Virginia WV27$2,281+38%$635 – $4,128
New Jersey NJ36$2,137+30%$1,793 – $5,339
Connecticut CT11$2,130+29%$1,907 – $4,409
Tennessee TN15$2,045+24%$481 – $3,487
Pennsylvania PA53$1,951+18%$606 – $6,803
Indiana IN33$1,935+17%$539 – $3,499
New Mexico NM11$1,897+15%$563 – $12,404
Illinois IL50$1,820+10%$1,006 – $5,795
Idaho ID16$1,788+8%$1,165 – $3,570
Louisiana LA23$1,780+8%$694 – $2,760
Wisconsin WI58$1,775+8%$1,277 – $2,691
New York NY62$1,687+2%$789 – $3,631
Missouri MO34$1,6460%$701 – $3,813
Alabama AL13$1,580−4%$865 – $4,395
Arkansas AR17$1,432−13%$834 – $3,170
Arizona AZ10$1,418−14%$513 – $9,680
Minnesota MN50$1,382−16%$752 – $2,124
South Dakota SD12$1,376−17%$1,286 – $1,571
Oregon OR29$1,341−19%$845 – $1,704
Washington WA32$1,309−21%$941 – $3,539
Colorado CO20$1,278−22%$714 – $3,051
Iowa IA43$1,201−27%$773 – $1,383
Nebraska NE26$1,043−37%$827 – $1,591
Michigan MI47$1,038−37%$309 – $2,545
Kentucky KY14$884−46%$503 – $1,539
Maine ME12$815−51%$544 – $1,931
Kansas KS38$806−51%$566 – $1,908
Mississippi MS19$785−52%$592 – $6,401
Vermont VT11$716−57%$624 – $1,143
Oklahoma OK24$699−58%$699 – $1,476
New Hampshire NH14$555−66%$311 – $1,286
Montana MT15$537−67%$392 – $1,148
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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 $1,648.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care848$2,034$922 – $4,501
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access367$1,078$618 – $2,201
Ownership
For-profit110$2,531$1,038 – $6,480
Government273$1,277$742 – $2,677
Non-profit851$1,711$777 – $3,685
System affiliation
Part of a system944$1,901$828 – $4,235
Independent293$1,239$698 – $2,430

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,358
Median cash price$1,648
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

684 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,580 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,811; most fall between $777 and $3,539.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 684 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
$540$892$1,580$2,933$4,582

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($540 vs $4,582).

Of the 756 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 684 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,237 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,344 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,237
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code1,344

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 Excision Tumor Soft Tissue Back/Flank Subq <3cm.

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 under skin of back, under 3 cm (CPT 21930) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21930-removal-of-soft-tissue-growth-under-skin-of-back-under-3-cm