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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, female organs

Destruction of vulvar lesions, extensive

CPT 56515the billing code this page is about

Removal of growths on the vulva by burning, freezing, or chemical means when the treated area is large or there are many lesions.

Hospitals typically charge $1,369 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 839 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,645. Most fall between $388 and $3,888 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
839
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 839 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
$265$481$1,369$3,487$6,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($265 vs $6,653).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $252: 48 hospitals$170$252 – $373: 80 hospitals$373 – $554: 83 hospitals$373$554 – $821: 89 hospitals$821 – $1,218: 46 hospitals$821$1,218 – $1,806: 94 hospitals$1,806 – $2,679: 102 hospitals$1,806$2,679 – $3,972: 109 hospitals$3,972 – $5,891: 57 hospitals$3,972$5,891 – $8,736: 70 hospitals$5,891median $1,369price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (778 of 839 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$25248
$252$37380
$373$55483
$554$82189
$821$1,21846
$1,218$1,80694
$1,806$2,679102
$2,679$3,972109
$3,972$5,89157
$5,891$8,73670

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$1,369
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.65×

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 $1,369.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $356 across 10 hospitalsVT$356New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,296 across 20 hospitalsWA$1,296Idaho: median $2,988 across 11 hospitalsID$2,988Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $831 across 28 hospitalsMN$831Illinois: median $897 across 34 hospitalsIL$897Wisconsin: median $1,355 across 41 hospitalsWI$1,355Michigan: median $624 across 33 hospitalsMI$624New York: median $2,165 across 49 hospitalsNY$2,165Massachusetts: median $4,007 across 18 hospitalsMA$4,007Oregon: median $530 across 28 hospitalsOR$530Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $623 across 30 hospitalsIA$623Indiana: median $1,012 across 26 hospitalsIN$1,012Ohio: median $1,908 across 32 hospitalsOH$1,908Pennsylvania: median $2,145 across 33 hospitalsPA$2,145New Jersey: median $3,661 across 36 hospitalsNJ$3,661Connecticut: 3 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 $5,468 across 51 hospitalsCA$5,468Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,444 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,444Nebraska: median $568 across 10 hospitalsNE$568Missouri: median $1,340 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,340Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,867 across 22 hospitalsWV$1,867Virginia: median $1,547 across 15 hospitalsVA$1,547Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $7,502 across 12 hospitalsAZ$7,502New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $385 across 17 hospitalsKS$385Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,369 across 19 hospitalsTN$1,369North Carolina: median $396 across 11 hospitalsNC$396South Carolina: median $3,293 across 13 hospitalsSC$3,293Oklahoma: median $351 across 13 hospitalsOK$351Louisiana: median $1,748 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,748Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,504 across 14 hospitalsGA$4,504Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,667 across 35 hospitalsTX$3,667Florida: median $5,518 across 19 hospitalsFL$5,518
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,369. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ12$7,502+448%$2,532 – $7,502
Florida FL19$5,518+303%$1,836 – $8,504
California CA51$5,468+299%$1,230 – $8,736
Georgia GA14$4,504+229%$2,817 – $6,653
Massachusetts MA18$4,007+193%$1,611 – $6,525
Texas TX35$3,667+168%$287 – $3,712
New Jersey NJ36$3,661+167%$2,026 – $5,855
South Carolina SC13$3,293+140%$307 – $3,865
Idaho ID11$2,988+118%$2,666 – $3,672
New York NY49$2,165+58%$412 – $3,888
Pennsylvania PA33$2,145+57%$143 – $3,093
Ohio OH32$1,908+39%$472 – $5,513
West Virginia WV22$1,867+36%$221 – $3,171
Louisiana LA21$1,748+28%$601 – $2,968
Virginia VA15$1,547+13%$142 – $3,165
Colorado CO12$1,444+5%$505 – $5,030
Tennessee TN19$1,3690%$231 – $1,740
Wisconsin WI41$1,355−1%$805 – $2,126
Missouri MO21$1,340−2%$365 – $3,825
Washington WA20$1,296−5%$501 – $4,774
Indiana IN26$1,012−26%$371 – $1,635
Illinois IL34$897−35%$371 – $8,201
Minnesota MN28$831−39%$393 – $1,425
Michigan MI33$624−54%$170 – $2,837
Iowa IA30$623−54%$400 – $658
Nebraska NE10$568−59%$402 – $941
Oregon OR28$530−61%$427 – $1,737
North Carolina NC11$396−71%$128 – $1,724
Kansas KS17$385−72%$286 – $1,217
Vermont VT10$356−74%$283 – $630
Oklahoma OK13$351−74%$351 – $631
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,369.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care607$2,108$504 – $5,030
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access216$592$340 – $1,355
Ownership
For-profit64$2,666$505 – $5,953
Government153$844$364 – $2,313
Non-profit621$1,413$390 – $3,958
System affiliation
Part of a system660$1,660$400 – $4,350
Independent179$715$373 – $2,646

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,824
Median cash price$1,369
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

486 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,355 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,595; most fall between $371 and $3,856.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 486 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
$250$406$1,355$3,327$6,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($250 vs $6,653).

Of the 535 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 486 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 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

839 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 927 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted839
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code927

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, female organs family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Destruction Lesions Vulva Extensive.

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, “Destruction of vulvar lesions, extensive (CPT 56515) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-56515-destruction-of-vulvar-lesions-extensive