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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Removal of a larger tumor under the skin of the leg or ankle

CPT 27632the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue growth in the fatty layer beneath the skin of the lower leg or ankle, measuring 3 centimeters or more.

Hospitals typically charge $2,017 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 868 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,292. Most fall between $761 and $4,881 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
868
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 868 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$840$2,017$4,461$7,706

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($536 vs $7,706).

How the prices are spread

$372 – $514: 39 hospitals$372$514 – $711: 76 hospitals$711 – $982: 114 hospitals$711$982 – $1,358: 95 hospitals$1,358 – $1,877: 46 hospitals$1,358$1,877 – $2,594: 72 hospitals$2,594 – $3,586: 100 hospitals$2,594$3,586 – $4,956: 112 hospitals$4,956 – $6,850: 64 hospitals$4,956$6,850 – $9,469: 64 hospitals$6,850median $2,017price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (782 of 868 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$372$51439
$514$71176
$711$982114
$982$1,35895
$1,358$1,87746
$1,877$2,59472
$2,594$3,586100
$3,586$4,956112
$4,956$6,85064
$6,850$9,46964

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,017
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $2,017.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $535 across 11 hospitalsNH$535Washington: median $1,099 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,099Idaho: median $4,363 across 13 hospitalsID$4,363Montana: median $622 across 11 hospitalsMT$622North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,252 across 36 hospitalsMN$1,252Illinois: median $1,356 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,356Wisconsin: median $2,148 across 50 hospitalsWI$2,148Michigan: median $859 across 47 hospitalsMI$859New York: median $1,812 across 50 hospitalsNY$1,812Massachusetts: median $2,474 across 14 hospitalsMA$2,474Oregon: median $761 across 21 hospitalsOR$761Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,014 across 39 hospitalsIA$1,014Indiana: median $968 across 20 hospitalsIN$968Ohio: median $4,493 across 35 hospitalsOH$4,493Pennsylvania: median $2,628 across 33 hospitalsPA$2,628New Jersey: median $3,819 across 32 hospitalsNJ$3,819Connecticut: 2 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 $4,425 across 59 hospitalsCA$4,425Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,024 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,024Nebraska: median $1,366 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,366Missouri: median $1,640 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,640Kentucky: median $623 across 14 hospitalsKY$623West Virginia: median $1,147 across 19 hospitalsWV$1,147Virginia: median $5,565 across 23 hospitalsVA$5,565Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $888 across 24 hospitalsKS$888Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $853 across 11 hospitalsTN$853North Carolina: median $2,023 across 11 hospitalsNC$2,023South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $862 across 14 hospitalsOK$862Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $726 across 13 hospitalsMS$726Alabama: median $3,309 across 14 hospitalsAL$3,309Georgia: median $13,791 across 11 hospitalsGA$13,791Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,591 across 37 hospitalsTX$3,591Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,017. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$13,791+584%$3,430 – $13,791
Virginia VA23$5,565+176%$3,638 – $8,299
Ohio OH35$4,493+123%$872 – $4,661
California CA59$4,425+119%$1,570 – $7,706
Idaho ID13$4,363+116%$2,162 – $7,765
New Jersey NJ32$3,819+89%$3,171 – $5,339
Texas TX37$3,591+78%$2,745 – $4,720
Alabama AL14$3,309+64%$1,165 – $7,363
Pennsylvania PA33$2,628+30%$267 – $5,393
Massachusetts MA14$2,474+23%$435 – $5,618
Wisconsin WI50$2,148+7%$1,122 – $2,927
North Carolina NC11$2,0230%$926 – $3,998
New York NY50$1,812−10%$671 – $3,626
Missouri MO21$1,640−19%$656 – $3,194
Nebraska NE14$1,366−32%$1,002 – $2,898
Illinois IL36$1,356−33%$785 – $7,757
Minnesota MN36$1,252−38%$818 – $1,972
West Virginia WV19$1,147−43%$446 – $4,569
Washington WA22$1,099−46%$807 – $5,054
Colorado CO12$1,024−49%$865 – $3,175
Iowa IA39$1,014−50%$774 – $2,072
Indiana IN20$968−52%$591 – $6,683
Kansas KS24$888−56%$464 – $2,736
Oklahoma OK14$862−57%$862 – $5,835
Michigan MI47$859−57%$791 – $4,568
Tennessee TN11$853−58%$451 – $4,550
Oregon OR21$761−62%$631 – $1,747
Mississippi MS13$726−64%$579 – $2,943
Kentucky KY14$623−69%$440 – $1,910
Montana MT11$622−69%$323 – $1,882
New Hampshire NH11$535−73%$372 – $986
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $2,017.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care616$2,903$811 – $5,565
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access239$1,070$636 – $2,532
Ownership
For-profit88$3,998$1,084 – $7,765
Government170$1,228$738 – $3,478
Non-profit609$1,985$749 – $4,839
System affiliation
Part of a system662$2,152$761 – $5,294
Independent206$1,324$743 – $3,575

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,311
Median cash price$2,017
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

469 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,681 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,143; most fall between $709 and $4,661.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 469 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
$471$799$1,681$4,425$7,706

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($471 vs $7,706).

Of the 516 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 469 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

868 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 949 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted868
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code949

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 Excision Tumor Soft Tissue Leg/Ankle 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 a larger tumor under the skin of the leg or ankle (CPT 27632) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-27632-removal-of-a-larger-tumor-under-the-skin-of-the-leg-or-ankle