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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of tumor under skin of upper arm, under 3 cm

CPT 24075the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue growth in the fatty layer just under the skin of the upper arm or elbow, measuring less than 3 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $1,494 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,213 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,694. Most fall between $731 and $3,625 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,213
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 1,213 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
$457$846$1,494$3,051$5,828

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($457 vs $5,828).

How the prices are spread

$359 – $483: 67 hospitals$359$483 – $651: 87 hospitals$651 – $877: 104 hospitals$651$877 – $1,181: 123 hospitals$1,181 – $1,591: 190 hospitals$1,181$1,591 – $2,143: 168 hospitals$2,143 – $2,887: 98 hospitals$2,143$2,887 – $3,888: 92 hospitals$3,888 – $5,238: 85 hospitals$3,888$5,238 – $7,055: 80 hospitals$5,238median $1,494price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,094 of 1,213 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$359$48367
$483$65187
$651$877104
$877$1,181123
$1,181$1,591190
$1,591$2,143168
$2,143$2,88798
$2,887$3,88892
$3,888$5,23885
$5,238$7,05580

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,494
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $1,494.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $977 across 12 hospitalsME$977Vermont: median $899 across 11 hospitalsVT$899New Hampshire: median $460 across 13 hospitalsNH$460Washington: median $1,255 across 33 hospitalsWA$1,255Idaho: median $1,237 across 16 hospitalsID$1,237Montana: median $892 across 13 hospitalsMT$892North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,292 across 43 hospitalsMN$1,292Illinois: median $1,443 across 49 hospitalsIL$1,443Wisconsin: median $1,471 across 59 hospitalsWI$1,471Michigan: median $1,069 across 47 hospitalsMI$1,069New York: median $1,917 across 71 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,663 across 21 hospitalsMA$2,663Oregon: median $966 across 27 hospitalsOR$966Nevada: 7 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 $2,177 across 11 hospitalsSD$2,177Iowa: median $1,197 across 52 hospitalsIA$1,197Indiana: median $1,751 across 33 hospitalsIN$1,751Ohio: median $1,880 across 52 hospitalsOH$1,880Pennsylvania: median $1,951 across 49 hospitalsPA$1,951New Jersey: median $2,162 across 38 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 7 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 $3,323 across 74 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,274 across 16 hospitalsCO$1,274Nebraska: median $1,051 across 36 hospitalsNE$1,051Missouri: median $1,282 across 29 hospitalsMO$1,282Kentucky: median $601 across 14 hospitalsKY$601West Virginia: median $1,899 across 28 hospitalsWV$1,899Virginia: median $4,358 across 31 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 $1,669 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,669New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $863 across 35 hospitalsKS$863Arkansas: median $1,133 across 11 hospitalsAR$1,133Tennessee: median $846 across 14 hospitalsTN$846North Carolina: median $1,085 across 12 hospitalsNC$1,085South Carolina: median $5,837 across 11 hospitalsSC$5,837Oklahoma: median $640 across 16 hospitalsOK$640Louisiana: median $1,388 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,388Mississippi: median $907 across 16 hospitalsMS$907Alabama: median $1,820 across 15 hospitalsAL$1,820Georgia: median $1,473 across 23 hospitalsGA$1,473Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,847 across 50 hospitalsTX$2,847Florida: median $2,305 across 35 hospitalsFL$2,305
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,494. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$5,837+291%$3,384 – $5,837
Virginia VA31$4,358+192%$837 – $5,741
California CA74$3,323+122%$1,351 – $6,933
Texas TX50$2,847+90%$1,650 – $4,980
Massachusetts MA21$2,663+78%$1,120 – $3,987
Florida FL35$2,305+54%$1,213 – $4,559
South Dakota SD11$2,177+46%$1,386 – $2,177
New Jersey NJ38$2,162+45%$1,795 – $5,855
Pennsylvania PA49$1,951+31%$278 – $5,824
New York NY71$1,917+28%$780 – $4,595
West Virginia WV28$1,899+27%$899 – $3,126
Ohio OH52$1,880+26%$663 – $6,520
Alabama AL15$1,820+22%$698 – $5,145
Indiana IN33$1,751+17%$728 – $3,107
Arizona AZ11$1,669+12%$1,505 – $5,603
Georgia GA23$1,473−1%$509 – $1,745
Wisconsin WI59$1,471−2%$1,316 – $1,739
Illinois IL49$1,443−3%$656 – $5,758
Louisiana LA21$1,388−7%$656 – $2,403
Minnesota MN43$1,292−14%$731 – $1,819
Missouri MO29$1,282−14%$659 – $1,891
Colorado CO16$1,274−15%$1,063 – $2,655
Washington WA33$1,255−16%$947 – $2,712
Idaho ID16$1,237−17%$765 – $3,570
Iowa IA52$1,197−20%$666 – $1,553
Arkansas AR11$1,133−24%$912 – $2,841
North Carolina NC12$1,085−27%$977 – $2,587
Michigan MI47$1,069−28%$411 – $2,271
Nebraska NE36$1,051−30%$798 – $2,110
Maine ME12$977−35%$327 – $1,781
Oregon OR27$966−35%$727 – $1,360
Mississippi MS16$907−39%$591 – $1,744
Vermont VT11$899−40%$723 – $2,134
Montana MT13$892−40%$488 – $1,550
Kansas KS35$863−42%$359 – $1,555
Tennessee TN14$846−43%$454 – $4,122
Oklahoma OK16$640−57%$640 – $3,303
Kentucky KY14$601−60%$470 – $1,961
New Hampshire NH13$460−69%$267 – $1,413
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $1,494.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care827$1,857$838 – $4,559
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access368$1,070$578 – $1,837
Ownership
For-profit112$2,003$1,052 – $6,231
Government252$1,259$706 – $2,373
Non-profit848$1,595$732 – $3,828
System affiliation
Part of a system930$1,637$763 – $4,320
Independent283$1,237$656 – $2,341

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,108
Median cash price$1,494
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

662 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,412 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,612; most fall between $672 and $3,323.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 662 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
$454$809$1,412$2,666$4,738

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($454 vs $4,738).

Of the 730 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 662 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 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,213 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 1,332 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,213
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
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 — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code1,332

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 Exc Tumor Soft Tiss Upper Arm/Elbow 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 tumor under skin of upper arm, under 3 cm (CPT 24075) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-24075-removal-of-tumor-under-skin-of-upper-arm-under-3-cm