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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of hand or finger growth under skin, under 1.5 cm

CPT 26115the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue tumor or vascular malformation lying just under the skin of the hand or finger, smaller than 1.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $1,669 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,031 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,854. Most fall between $770 and $4,198 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,031
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 1,031 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
$568$897$1,669$3,506$5,838

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($568 vs $5,838).

How the prices are spread

$401 – $535: 37 hospitals$401$535 – $713: 87 hospitals$713 – $951: 104 hospitals$713$951 – $1,269: 124 hospitals$1,269 – $1,693: 116 hospitals$1,269$1,693 – $2,259: 131 hospitals$2,259 – $3,013: 99 hospitals$2,259$3,013 – $4,019: 70 hospitals$4,019 – $5,362: 83 hospitals$4,019$5,362 – $7,153: 81 hospitals$5,362median $1,669price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (932 of 1,031 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$401$53537
$535$71387
$713$951104
$951$1,269124
$1,269$1,693116
$1,693$2,259131
$2,259$3,01399
$3,013$4,01970
$4,019$5,36283
$5,362$7,15381

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,669
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $1,669.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $992 across 11 hospitalsME$992Vermont: median $1,068 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,068New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,452 across 30 hospitalsWA$1,452Idaho: median $2,060 across 18 hospitalsID$2,060Montana: median $521 across 10 hospitalsMT$521North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,822 across 34 hospitalsMN$1,822Illinois: median $1,326 across 38 hospitalsIL$1,326Wisconsin: median $2,281 across 52 hospitalsWI$2,281Michigan: median $1,195 across 44 hospitalsMI$1,195New York: median $1,917 across 62 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $2,300 across 16 hospitalsMA$2,300Oregon: median $1,006 across 26 hospitalsOR$1,006Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,302 across 39 hospitalsIA$1,302Indiana: median $784 across 29 hospitalsIN$784Ohio: median $1,898 across 40 hospitalsOH$1,898Pennsylvania: median $1,904 across 39 hospitalsPA$1,904New Jersey: median $2,162 across 33 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,865 across 67 hospitalsCA$1,865Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,295 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,295Nebraska: median $1,178 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,178Missouri: median $1,739 across 25 hospitalsMO$1,739Kentucky: median $1,012 across 17 hospitalsKY$1,012West Virginia: median $1,899 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,899Virginia: median $4,358 across 26 hospitalsVA$4,358Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,112 across 10 hospitalsAZ$2,112New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $833 across 26 hospitalsKS$833Arkansas: median $2,350 across 11 hospitalsAR$2,350Tennessee: median $676 across 14 hospitalsTN$676North Carolina: median $1,331 across 26 hospitalsNC$1,331South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $645 across 18 hospitalsOK$645Louisiana: median $2,254 across 20 hospitalsLA$2,254Mississippi: median $921 across 12 hospitalsMS$921Alabama: median $1,474 across 13 hospitalsAL$1,474Georgia: median $3,600 across 16 hospitalsGA$3,600Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,640 across 42 hospitalsTX$2,640Florida: median $3,838 across 24 hospitalsFL$3,838
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,669. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA26$4,358+161%$837 – $4,623
Florida FL24$3,838+130%$1,030 – $5,571
Georgia GA16$3,600+116%$1,333 – $5,810
Texas TX42$2,640+58%$1,566 – $4,225
Arkansas AR11$2,350+41%$1,086 – $3,012
Massachusetts MA16$2,300+38%$1,318 – $4,624
Wisconsin WI52$2,281+37%$1,360 – $2,373
Louisiana LA20$2,254+35%$856 – $2,760
New Jersey NJ33$2,162+30%$1,793 – $5,339
Arizona AZ10$2,112+27%$545 – $6,083
Idaho ID18$2,060+23%$1,030 – $3,809
New York NY62$1,917+15%$792 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA39$1,904+14%$248 – $6,803
West Virginia WV25$1,899+14%$355 – $2,607
Ohio OH40$1,898+14%$859 – $6,052
California CA67$1,865+12%$733 – $7,073
Minnesota MN34$1,822+9%$1,069 – $2,138
Missouri MO25$1,739+4%$783 – $3,310
Alabama AL13$1,474−12%$770 – $6,460
Washington WA30$1,452−13%$991 – $3,596
North Carolina NC26$1,331−20%$1,200 – $2,813
Illinois IL38$1,326−21%$622 – $2,636
Iowa IA39$1,302−22%$905 – $1,616
Colorado CO12$1,295−22%$861 – $2,830
Michigan MI44$1,195−28%$880 – $2,687
Nebraska NE17$1,178−29%$810 – $2,580
Vermont VT10$1,068−36%$664 – $1,194
Kentucky KY17$1,012−39%$544 – $2,523
Oregon OR26$1,006−40%$847 – $1,589
Maine ME11$992−41%$556 – $1,517
Mississippi MS12$921−45%$699 – $2,897
Kansas KS26$833−50%$568 – $1,679
Indiana IN29$784−53%$615 – $1,165
Tennessee TN14$676−59%$521 – $2,555
Oklahoma OK18$645−61%$645 – $3,903
Montana MT10$521−69%$243 – $1,610
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,669.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care710$1,904$847 – $4,595
Children’s25$4,612$1,055 – $7,906
Critical access295$1,146$669 – $2,281
Ownership
For-profit107$2,653$1,052 – $5,987
Government213$1,331$817 – $2,488
Non-profit710$1,739$733 – $4,225
System affiliation
Part of a system793$1,898$833 – $4,358
Independent238$1,221$669 – $2,467

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,530
Median cash price$1,669
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

528 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,331 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,617; most fall between $669 and $3,635.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 528 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
$521$733$1,331$2,869$5,571

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($521 vs $5,571).

Of the 585 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 528 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 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,031 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,121 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,031
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code1,121

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 Tum/Vasc Mal Sft Tiss Hand/Fngr Subq <1.5cm.

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 hand or finger growth under skin, under 1.5 cm (CPT 26115) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26115-removal-of-hand-or-finger-growth-under-skin-under-1-5-cm