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Lower-cost skin substitute graft on trunk, arm or leg

HCPCS C5271the billing code this page is about

Application of a lower-cost skin substitute graft to a wound on the trunk, arms or legs when the total wound area is under 100 square centimeters; this code covers the first 25 square centimeters or less.

Hospitals typically charge $1,085 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 173 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,098. Most fall between $808 and $1,646 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
173
States
32
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 173 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
$597$861$1,085$1,427$2,564

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($597 vs $2,564).

How the prices are spread

$386 – $478: 2 hospitals$386$478 – $593: 6 hospitals$593 – $736: 15 hospitals$593$736 – $912: 31 hospitals$912 – $1,132: 41 hospitals$912$1,132 – $1,403: 26 hospitals$1,403 – $1,741: 12 hospitals$1,403$1,741 – $2,159: 8 hospitals$2,159 – $2,678: 8 hospitals$2,159$2,678 – $3,322: 8 hospitals$2,678median $1,085price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (157 of 173 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$386$4782
$478$5936
$593$73615
$736$91231
$912$1,13241
$1,132$1,40326
$1,403$1,74112
$1,741$2,1598
$2,159$2,6788
$2,678$3,3228

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,085.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $756 across 19 hospitalsIN$756Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,051 across 14 hospitalsPA$1,051New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,126 across 32 hospitalsTX$1,126Florida: median $893 across 11 hospitalsFL$893
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,085. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX32$1,126+4%$861 – $1,239
Pennsylvania PA14$1,051−3%$962 – $2,124
Florida FL11$893−18%$893 – $893
Indiana IN19$756−30%$606 – $979
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,085.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care159$1,126$820 – $1,673
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$1,126$787 – $1,609
Government14fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit136$1,035$860 – $1,531
System affiliation
Part of a system147$1,126$808 – $1,609
Independent26$1,001$630 – $1,646

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,877
Median cash price$1,085
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

115 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,126 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,082; most fall between $861 and $1,508.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 115 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
$600$883$1,126$1,344$2,124

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($600 vs $2,124).

Of the 120 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 115 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

173 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 182 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted173
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here2
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code182

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Low cost skin substitute app.

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, “Lower-cost skin substitute graft on trunk, arm or leg (CPT C5271) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c5271-lower-cost-skin-substitute-graft-on-trunk-arm-or-leg