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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of abdominal wall soft tissue tumor, 3 cm or larger

CPT 22903the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue tumor lying in the fatty layer just under the skin of the abdominal wall, measuring 3 cm or more.

Hospitals typically charge $2,246 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,094 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,471. Most fall between $807 and $5,311 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,094
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 1,094 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
$508$924$2,246$4,595$8,770

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($508 vs $8,770).

How the prices are spread

$435 – $611: 82 hospitals$435$611 – $858: 110 hospitals$858 – $1,205: 141 hospitals$858$1,205 – $1,692: 87 hospitals$1,692 – $2,376: 99 hospitals$1,692$2,376 – $3,336: 119 hospitals$3,336 – $4,685: 141 hospitals$3,336$4,685 – $6,579: 97 hospitals$6,579 – $9,238: 77 hospitals$6,579$9,238 – $12,973: 33 hospitals$9,238median $2,246price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (986 of 1,094 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$435$61182
$611$858110
$858$1,205141
$1,205$1,69287
$1,692$2,37699
$2,376$3,336119
$3,336$4,685141
$4,685$6,57997
$6,579$9,23877
$9,238$12,97333

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,246
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

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 $2,246.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $545 across 10 hospitalsME$545Vermont: median $720 across 10 hospitalsVT$720New Hampshire: median $745 across 11 hospitalsNH$745Washington: median $1,176 across 31 hospitalsWA$1,176Idaho: median $3,090 across 14 hospitalsID$3,090Montana: median $706 across 15 hospitalsMT$706North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,556 across 40 hospitalsMN$1,556Illinois: median $1,988 across 50 hospitalsIL$1,988Wisconsin: median $2,143 across 57 hospitalsWI$2,143Michigan: median $856 across 50 hospitalsMI$856New York: median $3,387 across 66 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $4,788 across 23 hospitalsMA$4,788Oregon: median $983 across 19 hospitalsOR$983Nevada: 8 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 $1,454 across 12 hospitalsSD$1,454Iowa: median $1,074 across 46 hospitalsIA$1,074Indiana: median $892 across 22 hospitalsIN$892Ohio: median $2,745 across 33 hospitalsOH$2,745Pennsylvania: median $3,356 across 45 hospitalsPA$3,356New Jersey: median $3,786 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,529 across 68 hospitalsCA$4,529Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,375 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,375Nebraska: median $1,302 across 22 hospitalsNE$1,302Missouri: median $971 across 24 hospitalsMO$971Kentucky: median $734 across 15 hospitalsKY$734West Virginia: median $1,110 across 24 hospitalsWV$1,110Virginia: median $4,802 across 30 hospitalsVA$4,802Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $5,612 across 12 hospitalsAZ$5,612New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $848 across 30 hospitalsKS$848Arkansas: median $998 across 12 hospitalsAR$998Tennessee: median $4,010 across 13 hospitalsTN$4,010North Carolina: median $2,755 across 18 hospitalsNC$2,755South Carolina: median $4,978 across 11 hospitalsSC$4,978Oklahoma: median $924 across 18 hospitalsOK$924Louisiana: median $3,290 across 17 hospitalsLA$3,290Mississippi: median $1,573 across 17 hospitalsMS$1,573Alabama: median $3,031 across 15 hospitalsAL$3,031Georgia: median $11,629 across 15 hospitalsGA$11,629Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,647 across 46 hospitalsTX$3,647Florida: median $6,277 across 19 hospitalsFL$6,277
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,246. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA15$11,629+418%$2,899 – $13,791
Florida FL19$6,277+179%$4,923 – $10,696
Arizona AZ12$5,612+150%$628 – $13,442
South Carolina SC11$4,978+122%$2,243 – $13,398
Virginia VA30$4,802+114%$4,066 – $9,302
Massachusetts MA23$4,788+113%$975 – $8,406
California CA68$4,529+102%$1,277 – $8,770
Tennessee TN13$4,010+79%$443 – $5,989
New Jersey NJ34$3,786+69%$3,168 – $5,339
Texas TX46$3,647+62%$2,903 – $5,889
New York NY66$3,387+51%$716 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA45$3,356+49%$337 – $10,195
Louisiana LA17$3,290+47%$1,051 – $4,679
Idaho ID14$3,090+38%$1,545 – $6,379
Alabama AL15$3,031+35%$762 – $7,325
North Carolina NC18$2,755+23%$1,818 – $6,390
Ohio OH33$2,745+22%$621 – $10,104
Wisconsin WI57$2,143−5%$1,183 – $2,616
Illinois IL50$1,988−11%$816 – $3,541
Mississippi MS17$1,573−30%$632 – $4,270
Minnesota MN40$1,556−31%$719 – $3,245
South Dakota SD12$1,454−35%$1,298 – $2,705
Colorado CO17$1,375−39%$749 – $4,724
Nebraska NE22$1,302−42%$987 – $2,557
Washington WA31$1,176−48%$872 – $4,544
West Virginia WV24$1,110−51%$474 – $3,578
Iowa IA46$1,074−52%$883 – $1,403
Arkansas AR12$998−56%$714 – $3,537
Oregon OR19$983−56%$818 – $1,450
Missouri MO24$971−57%$699 – $4,281
Oklahoma OK18$924−59%$924 – $5,835
Indiana IN22$892−60%$503 – $6,329
Michigan MI50$856−62%$467 – $3,994
Kansas KS30$848−62%$630 – $1,980
New Hampshire NH11$745−67%$402 – $1,562
Kentucky KY15$734−67%$469 – $2,084
Vermont VT10$720−68%$543 – $1,110
Montana MT15$706−69%$314 – $948
Maine ME10$545−76%$314 – $1,419
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $2,246.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care754$3,251$924 – $6,673
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access328$1,112$683 – $2,358
Ownership
For-profit112$4,346$1,296 – $10,559
Government237$1,418$840 – $3,949
Non-profit743$2,287$745 – $5,311
System affiliation
Part of a system824$2,663$818 – $6,070
Independent270$1,332$774 – $3,225

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,862
Median cash price$2,246
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

567 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,576 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,010; most fall between $711 and $4,679.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 567 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
$452$818$1,576$4,250$7,533

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($452 vs $7,533).

Of the 626 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 567 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,094 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,200 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,094
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,200

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 Hp Exc Tumor Soft Tissue Abdominal Wall Subq 3 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 abdominal wall soft tissue tumor, 3 cm or larger (CPT 22903) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-22903-removal-of-abdominal-wall-soft-tissue-tumor-3-cm-or-larger