Outpatient procedure · APC 5072 · Surgery or procedure

Level 2 Excision/Biopsy/Incision and Drainage

In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $1,539 per procedure at 2,329 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $1,396 and $1,606.

National figures, 2024

Average payment per case: $1,539
Typical range (middle half of hospitals): $1,396–$1,606
Medicare’s share: $1,22079% of the payment
Average billed charge: $11,310
Hospitals reporting: 2,329323,855 procedures

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2,315 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 51–100. Download as CSV

Medicare payments per case for Level 2 Excision/Biopsy/Incision and Drainage by hospital, 2024
Hospital	Cases	Average payment	vs national average	Medicare paid	Billed charge
Oklahoma Heart Hospital, LLCOklahoma City, OK · CCN 370215	14	$1,197	22% below the national average	$954	$13,244
Orlando Health Sebastian River HospitalSebastian, FL · CCN 100217	26	$1,198	22% below the national average	$950	$18,023
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport-St Mary Medical CentShreveport, LA · CCN 190317	62	$1,209	21% below the national average	$961	$6,228
Helen Keller HospitalSheffield, AL · CCN 010019	28	$1,215	21% below the national average	$938	$3,946
Harris HealthHouston, TX · CCN 450289	54	$1,217	21% below the national average	$968	$6,309
Grandview Medical CenterBirmingham, AL · CCN 010104	128	$1,223	21% below the national average	$956	$28,440
Byrd Regional HospitalLeesville, LA · CCN 190164	15	$1,224	20% below the national average	$960	$13,827
Mon Health Medical CenterMorgantown, WV · CCN 510024	104	$1,231	20% below the national average	$976	$13,039
The Orthopaedic Hospital Of Lutheran Health NetworFt Wayne, IN · CCN 150168	11	$1,232	20% below the national average	$964	$19,556
Russellville HospitalRussellville, AL · CCN 010158	11	$1,232	20% below the national average	$945	$7,687
Good Samaritan Medical CenterBrockton, MA · CCN 220111	119	$1,232	20% below the national average	$973	$4,965
Sweetwater Hospital AssociationSweetwater, TN · CCN 440084	13	$1,234	20% below the national average	$977	$3,926
Ochsner Medical Center-HancockBay Saint Louis, MS · CCN 250162	34	$1,239	20% below the national average	$973	$5,904
Palomar Medical Center PowayPoway, CA · CCN 050636	40	$1,239	19% below the national average	$831	$13,744
Henry Ford Health Warren HospitalWarren, MI · CCN 230195	91	$1,239	19% below the national average	$985	$8,495
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical CenterDanville, KY · CCN 180048	81	$1,240	19% below the national average	$987	$4,163
Mount St. Mary's Hospital & Health CenterLewiston, NY · CCN 330188	13	$1,243	19% below the national average	$990	$4,032
Mercy Hospital SoutheastCape Girardeau, MO · CCN 260110	138	$1,243	19% below the national average	$986	$8,217
Athens Limestone HospitalAthens, AL · CCN 010079	63	$1,246	19% below the national average	$989	$7,959
Lee Memorial HospitalFort Myers, FL · CCN 100012	558	$1,246	19% below the national average	$988	$11,921
Norwalk HospitalNorwalk, CT · CCN 070034	130	$1,248	19% below the national average	$987	$11,852
Medical Center EnterpriseEnterprise, AL · CCN 010049	13	$1,249	19% below the national average	$977	$66,302
Sacred Heart HospitalPensacola, FL · CCN 100025	209	$1,250	19% below the national average	$993	$11,542
Hardin Medical CenterSavannah, TN · CCN 440109	25	$1,252	19% below the national average	$980	$8,914
Duke Health Raleigh HospitalRaleigh, NC · CCN 340073	133	$1,252	19% below the national average	$995	$7,795
North Alabama Medical CenterFlorence, AL · CCN 010006	151	$1,253	19% below the national average	$996	$12,534
Singing River Health SystemPascagoula, MS · CCN 250040	90	$1,257	18% below the national average	$1,000	$11,080
Beaufort County Memorial HospitalBeaufort, SC · CCN 420067	208	$1,263	18% below the national average	$1,000	$5,804
Baptist Health Brookwood HospitalBirmingham, AL · CCN 010139	100	$1,269	18% below the national average	$993	$18,260
Ochsner Medical Center AcuteNew Orleans, LA · CCN 190036	478	$1,272	17% below the national average	$1,007	$7,676
Gadsden Regional Medical CenterGadsden, AL · CCN 010040	71	$1,272	17% below the national average	$1,004	$35,326
Holy Cross Hospital-Jordan ValleyWest Jordan, UT · CCN 460051	35	$1,274	17% below the national average	$972	$7,486
St Marys Regional Medical CenterRussellville, AR · CCN 040041	20	$1,275	17% below the national average	$989	$29,614
Baptist Health Medical Center- ConwayConway, AR · CCN 040154	20	$1,279	17% below the national average	$997	$12,629
Baptist Medical Center SouthMontgomery, AL · CCN 010023	234	$1,281	17% below the national average	$1,009	$4,642
Memorial Hospital BiloxiBiloxi, MS · CCN 250007	21	$1,283	17% below the national average	$1,003	$14,833
Pinnacle HospitalCrown Point, IN · CCN 150166	19	$1,284	17% below the national average	$1,006	$20,736
USA Health University HospitalMobile, AL · CCN 010087	60	$1,286	16% below the national average	$1,009	$6,096
Clay County Medical CorporationWest Point, MS · CCN 250067	20	$1,288	16% below the national average	$1,015	$8,648
Physicians Medical CenterHouma, LA · CCN 190241	22	$1,289	16% below the national average	$1,015	$5,804
Methodist Healthcare - Olive Branch HospitalOlive Branch, MS · CCN 250167	34	$1,289	16% below the national average	$1,012	$7,948
Insight Hospital And Medical Center TrumbullWarren, OH · CCN 360055	38	$1,290	16% below the national average	$1,012	$12,224
Mobile Infirmary Medical CenterMobile, AL · CCN 010113	153	$1,291	16% below the national average	$1,020	$5,453
AdventHealth Heart Of FloridaDavenport, FL · CCN 100137	35	$1,292	16% below the national average	$1,027	$28,299
Riverside Doctors' Hospital Of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg, VA · CCN 490143	38	$1,293	16% below the national average	$1,019	$5,566
Regional Hospital Of ScrantonScranton, PA · CCN 390237	104	$1,295	16% below the national average	$1,030	$17,849
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical CenterHilton Head Island, SC · CCN 420080	225	$1,296	16% below the national average	$1,008	$13,456
Coosa Valley Medical CenterSylacauga, AL · CCN 010164	22	$1,296	16% below the national average	$1,013	$5,982
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton RougeBaton Rouge, LA · CCN 190202	119	$1,298	16% below the national average	$1,030	$8,644
Ochsner LSU Health ShreveportShreveport, LA · CCN 190098	64	$1,298	16% below the national average	$1,023	$12,674

National trend

Average payment and billed charge per procedure, and how many Medicare procedures were reported each year.

Average payment
Average billed charge

2020: 327,576 procedures at 2,461 hospitals · 2021: 342,159 procedures at 2,460 hospitals · 2022: 328,148 procedures at 2,418 hospitals · 2023: 331,434 procedures at 2,387 hospitals · 2024: 323,855 procedures at 2,329 hospitals

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National average payment and billed charge for Level 2 Excision/Biopsy/Incision and Drainage
Year of care	Average payment	Average billed charge
2020	$1,364	$9,588
2021	$1,405	$9,782
2022	$1,422	$10K
2023	$1,477	$11K
2024	$1,539	$11K

By state, 2024

Case-weighted average payment across each state’s reporting hospitals, lowest first.

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Average payment by state for Level 2 Excision/Biopsy/Incision and Drainage, 2024
State	Hospitals	Cases	Average payment	Typical range
Vermont	6	1,080	$787	$666–$851
Alabama	45	4,814	$1,321	$1,281–$1,347
Tennessee	53	6,148	$1,324	$1,322–$1,384
West Virginia	21	2,823	$1,328	$1,309–$1,374
Mississippi	36	3,960	$1,340	$1,314–$1,355
Louisiana	46	4,679	$1,344	$1,333–$1,362
Ohio	107	14,062	$1,349	$1,354–$1,409
Oklahoma	39	4,483	$1,355	$1,368–$1,463
Arkansas	27	3,570	$1,359	$1,333–$1,450
South Carolina	43	7,381	$1,374	$1,359–$1,399
Kentucky	46	5,518	$1,389	$1,360–$1,407
Missouri	59	7,560	$1,394	$1,385–$1,460
Kansas	31	3,743	$1,394	$1,383–$1,443
Nebraska	21	2,935	$1,404	$1,438–$1,478
Virginia	60	9,999	$1,410	$1,381–$1,499
Iowa	25	4,141	$1,414	$1,385–$1,461
North Carolina	69	9,206	$1,418	$1,398–$1,442
Indiana	69	8,494	$1,422	$1,431–$1,472
Michigan	77	9,509	$1,425	$1,406–$1,474
Georgia	71	8,386	$1,428	$1,392–$1,472
New Mexico	15	1,273	$1,428	$1,393–$1,506
New Hampshire	13	2,357	$1,430	$1,489–$1,566
Texas	168	20,036	$1,441	$1,407–$1,464
Florida	146	20,444	$1,444	$1,441–$1,469
Utah	21	2,407	$1,451	$1,425–$1,453
Maine	15	1,585	$1,455	$1,403–$1,503
Pennsylvania	114	15,588	$1,478	$1,428–$1,551
Wisconsin	56	6,950	$1,480	$1,451–$1,504
Idaho	13	2,029	$1,484	$1,418–$1,523
Illinois	95	15,195	$1,493	$1,475–$1,539
South Dakota	12	2,368	$1,526	$1,520–$1,622
Montana	10	1,708	$1,536	$1,504–$1,598
North Dakota	6	1,934	$1,539	$1,516–$1,570
Colorado	42	4,089	$1,548	$1,525–$1,544
Minnesota	41	7,162	$1,567	$1,520–$1,571
Arizona	41	6,071	$1,584	$1,562–$1,581
Wyoming	8	471	$1,612	$1,607–$1,628
Delaware	6	1,585	$1,613	$1,613–$1,614
District of Columbia	5	1,304	$1,625	$1,618–$1,647
Rhode Island	10	987	$1,631	$1,627–$1,645
Washington	45	6,327	$1,656	$1,617–$1,705
Alaska	6	733	$1,706	$1,683–$1,769
Massachusetts	52	13,195	$1,724	$1,723–$1,741
Nevada	17	1,295	$1,725	$1,700–$1,736
New Jersey	54	8,474	$1,725	$1,671–$1,764
Oregon	28	3,266	$1,747	$1,668–$1,722
New York	113	20,231	$1,771	$1,700–$1,827
Connecticut	25	3,630	$1,776	$1,779–$1,809
Hawaii	11	983	$1,804	$1,801–$1,898
California	190	27,687	$2,041	$1,963–$2,080

About these numbers

Average payment is what Medicare paid plus the patient’s deductible and coinsurance (and any other insurer), averaged over the hospital’s Medicare cases. It covers the hospital’s part of the care; doctors bill separately. For outpatient procedures it is Medicare’s allowed amount, which leaves out extra “outlier” payments for unusually costly cases; those are shown under the hospital name where CMS reported any, and included in the CSV. Billed charges are the hospital’s list prices, which few patients pay.

Medicare sets its payments by formula, adjusting for local wages, teaching programs, the share of low-income patients and unusually costly cases. Those adjustments drive most differences between hospitals, so a lower payment doesn’t mean better or worse care, and Medicare patients’ own costs usually vary much less than the totals. Private insurance pays different, usually higher, prices.

Source: CMS Medicare Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service (Medicare fee-for-service claims). CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 procedures. More in the glossary.