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Procedure price report · Excision of skin lesion

Surgical revision of a tracheostomy scar

CPT 31830the billing code this page is about

Surgery to revise or reshape the scar left behind after a breathing tube opening in the neck has closed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,981 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 306 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,365. Most fall between $606 and $5,210 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
306
States
44
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 306 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
$499$684$1,981$4,501$8,820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($499 vs $8,820).

How the prices are spread

$308 – $435: 12 hospitals$308$435 – $614: 39 hospitals$614 – $867: 24 hospitals$614$867 – $1,224: 48 hospitals$1,224 – $1,728: 10 hospitals$1,224$1,728 – $2,440: 16 hospitals$2,440 – $3,445: 8 hospitals$2,440$3,445 – $4,864: 66 hospitals$4,864 – $6,868: 27 hospitals$4,864$6,868 – $9,697: 27 hospitals$6,868median $1,981price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (277 of 306 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$308$43512
$435$61439
$614$86724
$867$1,22448
$1,224$1,72810
$1,728$2,44016
$2,440$3,4458
$3,445$4,86466
$4,864$6,86827
$6,868$9,69727

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$1,981
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

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 $1,981.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,370 across 19 hospitalsIL$1,370Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $574 across 13 hospitalsMI$574New York: median $3,838 across 25 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,137 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,137Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,201 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,201Pennsylvania: median $522 across 19 hospitalsPA$522New Jersey: median $4,290 across 24 hospitalsNJ$4,290Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,820 across 26 hospitalsCA$8,820Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $606 across 12 hospitalsOK$606Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,866 across 20 hospitalsTX$3,866Florida: median $3,528 across 15 hospitalsFL$3,528
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,981. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$8,820+345%$8,820 – $8,820
New Jersey NJ24$4,290+117%$3,590 – $5,741
Texas TX20$3,866+95%$3,110 – $4,176
New York NY25$3,838+94%$560 – $3,838
Florida FL15$3,528+78%$3,255 – $12,457
Illinois IL19$1,370−31%$499 – $6,655
Ohio OH12$1,201−39%$901 – $1,641
Iowa IA16$1,137−43%$1,137 – $1,137
Oklahoma OK12$606−69%$606 – $606
Michigan MI13$574−71%$442 – $4,559
Pennsylvania PA19$522−74%$226 – $5,483
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,981.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care259$3,306$656 – $5,299
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access37$855$436 – $2,999
Ownership
For-profit33$2,246$539 – $5,269
Government43$1,796$684 – $3,838
Non-profit229$1,981$606 – $5,419
System affiliation
Part of a system249$3,306$606 – $5,483
Independent57$1,070$643 – $4,069

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,426
Median cash price$1,981
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,137 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,920; most fall between $574 and $5,066.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 188 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
$499$606$1,137$4,176$8,820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($499 vs $8,820).

Of the 205 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 188 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

306 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 344 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted306
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code344

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 23, 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 PR Revise Tracheostomy Scar.

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, “Surgical revision of a tracheostomy scar (CPT 31830) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31830-surgical-revision-of-a-tracheostomy-scar