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

Electric current removal of simple growths on the penis

CPT 54055the billing code this page is about

Small surface lesions on the penis are burned off using an electrically heated probe.

Hospitals typically charge $894 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 568 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,259. Most fall between $203 and $3,182 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
568
States
48
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 568 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
$149$221$894$2,722$5,374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 36× what the cheapest tenth charges ($149 vs $5,374).

How the prices are spread

$106 – $160: 53 hospitals$106$160 – $242: 73 hospitals$242 – $367: 65 hospitals$242$367 – $556: 49 hospitals$556 – $843: 13 hospitals$556$843 – $1,277: 13 hospitals$1,277 – $1,934: 42 hospitals$1,277$1,934 – $2,930: 100 hospitals$2,930 – $4,439: 65 hospitals$2,930$4,439 – $6,726: 54 hospitals$4,439median $894price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (527 of 568 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$106$16053
$160$24273
$242$36765
$367$55649
$556$84313
$843$1,27713
$1,277$1,93442
$1,934$2,930100
$2,930$4,43965
$4,439$6,72654

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$894
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.42×

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 $894.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: median $261 across 12 hospitalsWA$261Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $211 across 11 hospitalsMN$211Illinois: median $546 across 24 hospitalsIL$546Wisconsin: median $493 across 37 hospitalsWI$493Michigan: median $174 across 33 hospitalsMI$174New York: median $2,165 across 36 hospitalsNY$2,165Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $256 across 11 hospitalsOR$256Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $311 across 19 hospitalsIA$311Indiana: median $203 across 12 hospitalsIN$203Ohio: median $2,150 across 28 hospitalsOH$2,150Pennsylvania: median $1,413 across 27 hospitalsPA$1,413New Jersey: median $2,162 across 30 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,756 across 49 hospitalsCA$3,756Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $100 across 13 hospitalsWV$100Virginia: median $3,037 across 16 hospitalsVA$3,037Maryland: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $216 across 11 hospitalsTN$216North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $158 across 13 hospitalsOK$158Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,507 across 10 hospitalsGA$2,507Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,237 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,237Florida: median $5,417 across 17 hospitalsFL$5,417
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $894. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL17$5,417+506%$4,182 – $6,837
California CA49$3,756+320%$1,408 – $6,726
Virginia VA16$3,037+240%$1,907 – $3,249
Georgia GA10$2,507+181%$2,507 – $2,507
Texas TX23$2,237+150%$2,062 – $2,237
New York NY36$2,165+142%$409 – $2,449
New Jersey NJ30$2,162+142%$2,025 – $5,339
Ohio OH28$2,150+141%$213 – $5,469
Pennsylvania PA27$1,413+58%$40 – $3,093
Illinois IL24$546−39%$203 – $1,957
Wisconsin WI37$493−45%$217 – $530
Iowa IA19$311−65%$259 – $311
Washington WA12$261−71%$229 – $2,462
Oregon OR11$256−71%$256 – $399
Tennessee TN11$216−76%$116 – $1,346
Minnesota MN11$211−76%$171 – $234
Indiana IN12$203−77%$152 – $284
Michigan MI33$174−81%$149 – $1,678
Oklahoma OK13$158−82%$158 – $309
West Virginia WV13$100−89%$96 – $269
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $894.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care439$1,907$215 – $3,562
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access123$287$174 – $530
Ownership
For-profit38$920$174 – $3,001
Government93$344$194 – $2,507
Non-profit436$1,073$213 – $3,263
System affiliation
Part of a system455$1,640$213 – $3,525
Independent113$303$170 – $2,150

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$755
Median cash price$894
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

378 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $755 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,276; most fall between $200 and $3,249.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 378 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
$146$217$755$2,841$5,469

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 38× what the cheapest tenth charges ($146 vs $5,469).

Of the 410 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 378 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 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

568 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 625 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted568
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code625

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 Electrodesiccation.

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, “Electric current removal of simple growths on the penis (CPT 54055) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54055-electric-current-removal-of-simple-growths-on-the-penis