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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

Hospitals in Pennsylvania

Narrow by a state, city or ZIP code (optionally a distance around it), and/or pick specific hospitals. With both, your picks are added to the area’s hospitals.

Location
Pennsylvania
Specific hospitals up to 10
Average payment across these 113 hospitals
$1,475National $1,539 · Pennsylvania $1,478
Median hospital
$1,464
Lowest to highest
$716–$1,709
Medicare procedures
15,108

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

HospitalCasesAverage paymentvs national averageMedicare paidBilled charge
Geisinger-Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburg, PA · CCN 39000313$1,448About average$1,139$12,017
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson CityDickson City, PA · CCN 39033821$1,448About average$1,138$13,058
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill, PA · CCN 39000486$1,459About average$1,162$14,002
Surgical Institute Of ReadingWyomissing, PA · CCN 39031639$1,460About average$1,154$8,901
Penn State Health St. JosephReading, PA · CCN 390096118$1,461About average$1,159$14,557
Hospital Of University Of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 3901111,049$1,462About average$1,164$20,804
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown, PA · CCN 39004879$1,464About average$1,155$14,403
UPMC CarlisleCarlisle, PA · CCN 39005898$1,468About average$1,169$10,381
Reading HospitalWest Reading, PA · CCN 390044284$1,469About average$1,167$11,385
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata, PA · CCN 39022585$1,470About average$1,171$15,731
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton, PA · CCN 39033537$1,478About average$1,177$23,486
Robert Packer HospitalSayre, PA · CCN 390079173$1,482About average$1,178$9,679
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster, PA · CCN 390100462$1,486About average$1,180$10,031
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale, PA · CCN 39018342$1,494About average$1,190$17,484
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale, PA · CCN 39012551$1,495About average$1,188$7,212
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale, PA · CCN 39001253$1,498About average$1,189$8,644
Penn Highlands HuntingdonHuntingdon, PA · CCN 39005626$1,503About average$1,186$5,794
Wellspan York HospitalYork, PA · CCN 390046360$1,507About average$1,197$6,221
St Luke's Hospital - Easton CampusEaston, PA · CCN 39016225$1,507About average$1,191$23,738
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington, PA · CCN 390231314$1,509About average$1,199$8,250
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois, PA · CCN 390086217$1,511About average$1,203$5,959
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 390174 · +$209 outlier payments per case420$1,513About average$1,202$11,599
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg, PA · CCN 390330150$1,513About average$1,201$14,532
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland, PA · CCN 390180126$1,515About average$1,201$12,141
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton, PA · CCN 39032984$1,521About average$1,212$7,095
Holy Redeemer Hospital And Medical CenterMeadowbrook, PA · CCN 390097156$1,521About average$1,210$9,373
Pottstown HospitalPottstown, PA · CCN 39012354$1,521About average$1,208$12,860
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon, PA · CCN 39006685$1,523About average$1,210$8,387
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood, PA · CCN 390195161$1,538About average$1,218$7,195
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown, PA · CCN 390110163$1,543About average$1,228$7,466
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville, PA · CCN 390113112$1,544About average$1,229$10,749
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville, PA · CCN 39012762$1,544About average$1,225$13,068
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 39020421$1,546About average$1,223$10,161
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown, PA · CCN 39003554$1,550About average$1,235$23,202
Chester County HospitalWest Chester, PA · CCN 390179327$1,551About average$1,234$10,246
UPMC SomersetSomerset, PA · CCN 39003925$1,551About average$1,236$5,566
UPMC AltoonaAltoona, PA · CCN 390073122$1,551About average$1,234$10,943
Independence Health System Clarion HospitalClarion, PA · CCN 39009326$1,551About average$1,234$5,902
Punxsutawney Area HospitalPunxsutawney, PA · CCN 39019918$1,551About average$1,231$8,581
UPMC KaneKane, PA · CCN 39010418$1,551About average$1,215$4,076
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville, PA · CCN 390057171$1,552About average$1,231$8,600
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana, PA · CCN 39017359$1,554About average$1,238$10,845
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 390142104$1,555About average$1,236$6,065
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown, PA · CCN 390203185$1,556About average$1,238$8,739
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr, PA · CCN 390139202$1,560About average$1,240$7,521
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg, PA · CCN 390201143$1,564About average$1,240$20,201
Paoli HospitalPaoli, PA · CCN 390153204$1,564About average$1,246$8,005
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 390115166$1,565About average$1,245$9,490
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown, PA · CCN 390133792$1,566About average$1,242$21,920
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro, PA · CCN 39013832$1,567About average$1,249$7,827

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
View data as a table
Year of careAverage paymentAverage 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.

Show all 50 states
StateHospitalsCasesAverage paymentTypical range
Vermont61,080$787$666–$851
Alabama454,814$1,321$1,281–$1,347
Tennessee536,148$1,324$1,322–$1,384
West Virginia212,823$1,328$1,309–$1,374
Mississippi363,960$1,340$1,314–$1,355
Louisiana464,679$1,344$1,333–$1,362
Ohio10714,062$1,349$1,354–$1,409
Oklahoma394,483$1,355$1,368–$1,463
Arkansas273,570$1,359$1,333–$1,450
South Carolina437,381$1,374$1,359–$1,399
Kentucky465,518$1,389$1,360–$1,407
Missouri597,560$1,394$1,385–$1,460
Kansas313,743$1,394$1,383–$1,443
Nebraska212,935$1,404$1,438–$1,478
Virginia609,999$1,410$1,381–$1,499
Iowa254,141$1,414$1,385–$1,461
North Carolina699,206$1,418$1,398–$1,442
Indiana698,494$1,422$1,431–$1,472
Michigan779,509$1,425$1,406–$1,474
Georgia718,386$1,428$1,392–$1,472
New Mexico151,273$1,428$1,393–$1,506
New Hampshire132,357$1,430$1,489–$1,566
Texas16820,036$1,441$1,407–$1,464
Florida14620,444$1,444$1,441–$1,469
Utah212,407$1,451$1,425–$1,453
Maine151,585$1,455$1,403–$1,503
Pennsylvania11415,588$1,478$1,428–$1,551
Wisconsin566,950$1,480$1,451–$1,504
Idaho132,029$1,484$1,418–$1,523
Illinois9515,195$1,493$1,475–$1,539
South Dakota122,368$1,526$1,520–$1,622
Montana101,708$1,536$1,504–$1,598
North Dakota61,934$1,539$1,516–$1,570
Colorado424,089$1,548$1,525–$1,544
Minnesota417,162$1,567$1,520–$1,571
Arizona416,071$1,584$1,562–$1,581
Wyoming8471$1,612$1,607–$1,628
Delaware61,585$1,613$1,613–$1,614
District of Columbia51,304$1,625$1,618–$1,647
Rhode Island10987$1,631$1,627–$1,645
Washington456,327$1,656$1,617–$1,705
Alaska6733$1,706$1,683–$1,769
Massachusetts5213,195$1,724$1,723–$1,741
Nevada171,295$1,725$1,700–$1,736
New Jersey548,474$1,725$1,671–$1,764
Oregon283,266$1,747$1,668–$1,722
New York11320,231$1,771$1,700–$1,827
Connecticut253,630$1,776$1,779–$1,809
Hawaii11983$1,804$1,801–$1,898
California19027,687$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.