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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Chemical removal of simple growths on the penis

CPT 54050the billing code this page is about

Small surface lesions such as warts on the penis are destroyed by applying a chemical agent.

Hospitals typically charge $303 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 634 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $305. Most fall between $158 and $526 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
634
States
49
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 634 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
$106$175$303$470$817

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $817).

How the prices are spread

$85 – $110: 37 hospitals$85$110 – $143: 41 hospitals$143 – $185: 68 hospitals$143$185 – $239: 66 hospitals$239 – $309: 76 hospitals$239$309 – $400: 123 hospitals$400 – $517: 63 hospitals$400$517 – $670: 38 hospitals$670 – $866: 34 hospitals$670$866 – $1,121: 28 hospitals$866median $303price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (574 of 634 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$85$11037
$110$14341
$143$18568
$185$23966
$239$30976
$309$400123
$400$51763
$517$67038
$670$86634
$866$1,12128

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$303
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.73×

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 $303.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $285 across 14 hospitalsWA$285Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $281 across 24 hospitalsMN$281Illinois: median $251 across 24 hospitalsIL$251Wisconsin: median $343 across 46 hospitalsWI$343Michigan: median $164 across 32 hospitalsMI$164New York: median $473 across 41 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: median $371 across 11 hospitalsMA$371Oregon: median $267 across 21 hospitalsOR$267Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $331 across 26 hospitalsIA$331Indiana: median $175 across 10 hospitalsIN$175Ohio: median $241 across 16 hospitalsOH$241Pennsylvania: median $462 across 31 hospitalsPA$462New Jersey: median $972 across 24 hospitalsNJ$972Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $433 across 60 hospitalsCA$433Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $240 across 11 hospitalsNE$240Missouri: median $191 across 16 hospitalsMO$191Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $169 across 15 hospitalsWV$169Virginia: median $349 across 15 hospitalsVA$349Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $222 across 13 hospitalsKS$222Arkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $160 across 11 hospitalsTN$160North Carolina: 4 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 $176 across 12 hospitalsOK$176Louisiana: median $132 across 14 hospitalsLA$132Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $132 across 11 hospitalsGA$132Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $261 across 24 hospitalsTX$261Florida: median $893 across 11 hospitalsFL$893
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $303. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ24$972+221%$442 – $5,419
Florida FL11$893+195%$401 – $1,305
New York NY41$473+56%$175 – $851
Pennsylvania PA31$462+53%$72 – $553
California CA60$433+43%$358 – $798
Massachusetts MA11$371+23%$158 – $623
Virginia VA15$349+15%$326 – $349
Wisconsin WI46$343+13%$241 – $551
Iowa IA26$331+9%$230 – $332
Washington WA14$285−6%$174 – $452
Minnesota MN24$281−7%$213 – $329
Oregon OR21$267−12%$211 – $323
Texas TX24$261−14%$221 – $326
Illinois IL24$251−17%$172 – $391
Ohio OH16$241−20%$157 – $369
Nebraska NE11$240−21%$196 – $298
Kansas KS13$222−27%$145 – $368
Missouri MO16$191−37%$85 – $377
Oklahoma OK12$176−42%$176 – $176
Indiana IN10$175−42%$158 – $283
West Virginia WV15$169−44%$106 – $468
Michigan MI32$164−46%$88 – $343
Tennessee TN11$160−47%$126 – $160
Louisiana LA14$132−56%$80 – $559
Georgia GA11$132−56%$132 – $132
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $303.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care448$332$160 – $586
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access175$249$157 – $368
Ownership
For-profit38$196$165 – $920
Government119$261$158 – $462
Non-profit477$329$158 – $551
System affiliation
Part of a system505$326$161 – $551
Independent129$267$139 – $496

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$394
Median cash price$303
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

396 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $311 and the average of the middle 60% is $299; most fall between $175 and $562.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 396 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
$132$176$311$420$959

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($132 vs $959).

Of the 435 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 396 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

634 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 699 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted634
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code699

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dstrj Lesion Penis Simple Chemical.

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, “Chemical removal of simple growths on the penis (CPT 54050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54050-chemical-removal-of-simple-growths-on-the-penis