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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of soft tissue tumor in thigh or knee, 3 cm or more

CPT 27337the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a growth in the fatty tissue just under the skin of the thigh or knee area, measuring 3 centimeters or larger.

Hospitals typically charge $2,467 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,109 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,550. Most fall between $785 and $5,302 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,109
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,109 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
$529$896$2,467$4,611$8,299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($529 vs $8,299).

How the prices are spread

$401 – $556: 60 hospitals$401$556 – $770: 95 hospitals$770 – $1,068: 132 hospitals$770$1,068 – $1,480: 96 hospitals$1,480 – $2,052: 61 hospitals$1,480$2,052 – $2,844: 100 hospitals$2,844 – $3,943: 153 hospitals$2,844$3,943 – $5,466: 143 hospitals$5,466 – $7,578: 76 hospitals$5,466$7,578 – $10,505: 83 hospitals$7,578median $2,467price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (999 of 1,109 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$401$55660
$556$77095
$770$1,068132
$1,068$1,48096
$1,480$2,05261
$2,052$2,844100
$2,844$3,943153
$3,943$5,466143
$5,466$7,57876
$7,578$10,50583

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,467
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.83×

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 $2,467.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,143 across 10 hospitalsME$1,143Vermont: median $583 across 10 hospitalsVT$583New Hampshire: median $597 across 12 hospitalsNH$597Washington: median $998 across 27 hospitalsWA$998Idaho: median $2,766 across 17 hospitalsID$2,766Montana: median $629 across 16 hospitalsMT$629North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,423 across 52 hospitalsMN$2,423Illinois: median $1,783 across 52 hospitalsIL$1,783Wisconsin: median $2,197 across 56 hospitalsWI$2,197Michigan: median $1,044 across 47 hospitalsMI$1,044New York: median $3,387 across 62 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $5,618 across 17 hospitalsMA$5,618Oregon: median $782 across 25 hospitalsOR$782Nevada: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,025 across 47 hospitalsIA$1,025Indiana: median $916 across 19 hospitalsIN$916Ohio: median $3,293 across 44 hospitalsOH$3,293Pennsylvania: median $3,349 across 48 hospitalsPA$3,349New Jersey: median $3,758 across 36 hospitalsNJ$3,758Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,474 across 70 hospitalsCA$4,474Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,057 across 21 hospitalsCO$1,057Nebraska: median $1,304 across 24 hospitalsNE$1,304Missouri: median $842 across 27 hospitalsMO$842Kentucky: median $930 across 16 hospitalsKY$930West Virginia: median $2,227 across 24 hospitalsWV$2,227Virginia: median $5,758 across 33 hospitalsVA$5,758Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,565 across 10 hospitalsAZ$3,565New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $888 across 27 hospitalsKS$888Arkansas: median $1,848 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,848Tennessee: median $1,042 across 14 hospitalsTN$1,042North Carolina: median $2,023 across 15 hospitalsNC$2,023South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $880 across 18 hospitalsOK$880Louisiana: median $2,809 across 14 hospitalsLA$2,809Mississippi: median $804 across 16 hospitalsMS$804Alabama: median $2,796 across 15 hospitalsAL$2,796Georgia: median $6,510 across 14 hospitalsGA$6,510Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,309 across 43 hospitalsTX$4,309Florida: median $5,878 across 16 hospitalsFL$5,878
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,467. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA14$6,510+164%$3,875 – $13,791
Florida FL16$5,878+138%$4,453 – $10,696
Virginia VA33$5,758+133%$1,408 – $8,299
Massachusetts MA17$5,618+128%$2,474 – $6,876
California CA70$4,474+81%$1,708 – $9,626
Texas TX43$4,309+75%$2,745 – $5,625
New Jersey NJ36$3,758+52%$3,168 – $5,741
Arizona AZ10$3,565+44%$456 – $7,804
New York NY62$3,387+37%$768 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA48$3,349+36%$322 – $7,788
Ohio OH44$3,293+33%$962 – $9,274
Louisiana LA14$2,809+14%$1,645 – $4,314
Alabama AL15$2,796+13%$703 – $7,431
Idaho ID17$2,766+12%$944 – $6,379
Minnesota MN52$2,423−2%$910 – $2,988
West Virginia WV24$2,227−10%$899 – $6,919
Wisconsin WI56$2,197−11%$1,129 – $3,231
North Carolina NC15$2,023−18%$1,033 – $5,007
Arkansas AR10$1,848−25%$932 – $3,226
Illinois IL52$1,783−28%$946 – $6,441
Nebraska NE24$1,304−47%$740 – $4,098
Maine ME10$1,143−54%$430 – $2,256
Colorado CO21$1,057−57%$740 – $5,273
Michigan MI47$1,044−58%$504 – $3,994
Tennessee TN14$1,042−58%$560 – $4,734
Iowa IA47$1,025−58%$800 – $1,663
Washington WA27$998−60%$720 – $4,702
Kentucky KY16$930−62%$534 – $1,919
Indiana IN19$916−63%$477 – $4,461
Kansas KS27$888−64%$600 – $2,736
Oklahoma OK18$880−64%$880 – $5,835
Missouri MO27$842−66%$630 – $2,283
Mississippi MS16$804−67%$583 – $6,778
Oregon OR25$782−68%$398 – $1,407
Montana MT16$629−75%$464 – $1,287
New Hampshire NH12$597−76%$371 – $1,887
Vermont VT10$583−76%$383 – $2,984
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $2,467.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care759$3,293$880 – $6,417
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access338$1,143$692 – $2,953
Ownership
For-profit109$4,044$1,400 – $7,762
Government212$1,481$720 – $3,850
Non-profit787$2,522$782 – $5,758
System affiliation
Part of a system838$2,953$850 – $5,855
Independent271$1,415$697 – $3,875

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,051
Median cash price$2,467
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

585 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,923 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,217; most fall between $684 and $4,727.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 585 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$801$1,923$4,309$7,788

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($454 vs $7,788).

Of the 659 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 585 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,109 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 1,231 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,109
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code1,231

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 Excison Tumor Soft Tissue Thigh/Knee 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 soft tissue tumor in thigh or knee, 3 cm or more (CPT 27337) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27337-removal-of-soft-tissue-tumor-in-thigh-or-knee-3-cm-or-more