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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Release of scar bands left after circumcision

CPT 54162the billing code this page is about

Procedure to separate or cut out adhesions and scar tissue that formed between the remaining foreskin and the head of the penis after a previous circumcision.

Hospitals typically charge $1,347 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 859 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,642. Most fall between $403 and $3,975 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
859
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 859 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
$300$473$1,347$3,497$5,406

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $5,406).

How the prices are spread

$231 – $322: 58 hospitals$231$322 – $450: 90 hospitals$450 – $627: 105 hospitals$450$627 – $875: 86 hospitals$875 – $1,220: 39 hospitals$875$1,220 – $1,702: 40 hospitals$1,702 – $2,374: 81 hospitals$1,702$2,374 – $3,311: 92 hospitals$3,311 – $4,618: 97 hospitals$3,311$4,618 – $6,441: 87 hospitals$4,618median $1,347price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (775 of 859 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$231$32258
$322$45090
$450$627105
$627$87586
$875$1,22039
$1,220$1,70240
$1,702$2,37481
$2,374$3,31192
$3,311$4,61897
$4,618$6,44187

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,347
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $1,347.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $594 across 24 hospitalsWA$594Idaho: median $2,990 across 11 hospitalsID$2,990Montana: median $324 across 11 hospitalsMT$324North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $854 across 37 hospitalsMN$854Illinois: median $969 across 34 hospitalsIL$969Wisconsin: median $870 across 51 hospitalsWI$870Michigan: median $376 across 33 hospitalsMI$376New York: median $2,424 across 40 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: median $2,380 across 15 hospitalsMA$2,380Oregon: median $565 across 22 hospitalsOR$565Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,942 across 10 hospitalsSD$4,942Iowa: median $642 across 34 hospitalsIA$642Indiana: median $595 across 14 hospitalsIN$595Ohio: median $2,361 across 31 hospitalsOH$2,361Pennsylvania: median $2,402 across 24 hospitalsPA$2,402New Jersey: median $4,350 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 5 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 $2,150 across 60 hospitalsCA$2,150Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,891 across 12 hospitalsCO$2,891Nebraska: median $589 across 17 hospitalsNE$589Missouri: median $1,925 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,925Kentucky: median $350 across 10 hospitalsKY$350West Virginia: median $542 across 21 hospitalsWV$542Virginia: median $3,397 across 22 hospitalsVA$3,397Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 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 $397 across 15 hospitalsKS$397Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $5,028 across 24 hospitalsSC$5,028Oklahoma: median $332 across 17 hospitalsOK$332Louisiana: median $1,305 across 20 hospitalsLA$1,305Mississippi: median $449 across 10 hospitalsMS$449Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,929 across 18 hospitalsGA$1,929Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,441 across 42 hospitalsTX$3,441Florida: median $863 across 27 hospitalsFL$863
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,347. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC24$5,028+273%$2,883 – $11,191
South Dakota SD10$4,942+267%$291 – $4,942
New Jersey NJ32$4,350+223%$2,269 – $5,110
Texas TX42$3,441+155%$549 – $4,591
Virginia VA22$3,397+152%$1,145 – $3,503
Idaho ID11$2,990+122%$1,582 – $5,304
Colorado CO12$2,891+115%$1,495 – $5,406
New York NY40$2,424+80%$484 – $3,645
Pennsylvania PA24$2,402+78%$130 – $3,463
Massachusetts MA15$2,380+77%$342 – $4,153
Ohio OH31$2,361+75%$436 – $6,125
California CA60$2,150+60%$1,902 – $3,864
Georgia GA18$1,929+43%$1,929 – $5,518
Missouri MO21$1,925+43%$438 – $3,372
Louisiana LA20$1,305−3%$583 – $3,497
Illinois IL34$969−28%$472 – $2,405
Wisconsin WI51$870−35%$473 – $1,166
Florida FL27$863−36%$508 – $5,675
Minnesota MN37$854−37%$450 – $2,398
Iowa IA34$642−52%$357 – $642
Indiana IN14$595−56%$350 – $3,560
Washington WA24$594−56%$436 – $3,202
Nebraska NE17$589−56%$404 – $1,337
Oregon OR22$565−58%$469 – $776
West Virginia WV21$542−60%$209 – $2,403
Mississippi MS10$449−67%$409 – $2,178
Kansas KS15$397−70%$280 – $1,362
Michigan MI33$376−72%$253 – $2,874
Kentucky KY10$350−74%$269 – $1,711
Oklahoma OK17$332−75%$332 – $4,177
Montana MT11$324−76%$246 – $542
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,347.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care612$2,215$478 – $4,602
Children’s35$1,483$473 – $2,616
Critical access211$530$336 – $1,025
Ownership
For-profit59$2,984$656 – $5,304
Government165$741$357 – $2,424
Non-profit634$1,501$438 – $4,173
System affiliation
Part of a system671$1,682$450 – $4,190
Independent188$734$374 – $2,817

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,831
Median cash price$1,347
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

505 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,501 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,730; most fall between $404 and $3,864.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 505 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
$318$473$1,501$3,590$5,406

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($318 vs $5,406).

Of the 544 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 505 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

859 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 929 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted859
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code929

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 OR therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Lysis/Excision Penile Postcircumcision Adhesions.

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, “Release of scar bands left after circumcision (CPT 54162) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54162-release-of-scar-bands-left-after-circumcision