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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 Texas

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
Texas
Specific hospitals up to 10
Average payment across these 166 hospitals
$1,431National $1,539 · Texas $1,441
Median hospital
$1,434
Lowest to highest
$765–$1,563
Medicare procedures
16,536

166 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 151–166. Download as CSV

HospitalCasesAverage paymentvs national averageMedicare paidBilled charge
Huntsville Memorial HospitalHuntsville, TX · CCN 45034739$1,498About average$1,192$9,619
HCA Houston Healthcare NorthwestHouston, TX · CCN 45063818$1,503About average$1,198$36,806
HCA Houston Healthcare KingwoodKingwood, TX · CCN 45077571$1,503About average$1,198$32,656
Memorial Hermann Houston Physicians HospitalWebster, TX · CCN 67000811$1,503About average$1,198$11,414
CHI St Luke's Health BrazosportLake Jackson, TX · CCN 45007250$1,503About average$1,196$11,213
Houston Methodist Willowbrook HospitalHouston, TX · CCN 450844137$1,503About average$1,195$20,650
HCA Houston Healthcare ConroeConroe, TX · CCN 45022236$1,503About average$1,191$27,217
St Luke's The Woodlands HospitalThe Woodlands, TX · CCN 45086255$1,504About average$1,189$16,657
The Womans Hospital of TexasHouston, TX · CCN 45067430$1,504About average$1,189$7,964
HCA Houston Healthcare WestHouston, TX · CCN 45064417$1,504About average$1,189$22,215
Palestine Regional Medical CenterPalestine, TX · CCN 45074719$1,507About average$1,200$9,525
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Marble FallsMarble Falls, TX · CCN 67010887$1,507About average$1,199$8,647
Val Verde Regional Medical CenterDel Rio, TX · CCN 45015420$1,507About average$1,198$10,179
Columbus Community HospitalColumbus, TX · CCN 45037015$1,511About average$1,204$4,576
Paris Regional Medical CenterParis, TX · CCN 45019678$1,563About average$1,242$12,753
North Texas Medical CenterGainesville, TX · CCN 45009017$1,563About average$1,241$6,622

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.