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 251–300. 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
University Of Texas Health Science Center At TylerTyler, TX · CCN 450690	14	$1,346	12% below the national average	$1,073	$5,910
St Charles Surgical HospitalNew Orleans, LA · CCN 190300	11	$1,347	12% below the national average	$1,073	$30,783
West Jefferson Medical CenterMarrero, LA · CCN 190039	65	$1,347	12% below the national average	$1,058	$10,804
Baptist Medical Center EastMontgomery, AL · CCN 010149	68	$1,347	12% below the national average	$1,068	$5,428
Freeman Health System - Freeman WestJoplin, MO · CCN 260137	283	$1,347	12% below the national average	$1,065	$8,493
Lakeland Hospital, St JosephSt Joseph, MI · CCN 230021	144	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,063	$6,766
Beauregard Memorial HospitalDeridder, LA · CCN 190050	16	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,074	$9,347
Lafayette Surgical Specialty HospitalLafayette, LA · CCN 190259	11	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,074	$9,324
Northern Louisiana Medical CenterRuston, LA · CCN 190086	25	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,074	$11,251
Ochsner LSU Health MonroeMonroe, LA · CCN 190011	11	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,074	$9,197
Richardson Medical CenterRayville, LA · CCN 190151	12	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,074	$2,918
Abbeville General HospitalAbbeville, LA · CCN 190034	18	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,073	$3,291
Our Lady Of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, IncLafayette, LA · CCN 190102	239	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,069	$6,630
Park Place Surgical HospitalLafayette, LA · CCN 190255	32	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,067	$6,467
Ochsner University Hospital And ClinicsLafayette, LA · CCN 190006	40	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,067	$4,445
Forrest City Medical CenterForrest City, AR · CCN 040019	24	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,040	$10,803
Trinity - BettendorfBettendorf, IA · CCN 160104	27	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,061	$7,834
Parkridge Medical CenterChattanooga, TN · CCN 440156	32	$1,348	12% below the national average	$1,067	$18,863
University Of Louisville HospitalLouisville, KY · CCN 180141	254	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,066	$11,146
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News, VA · CCN 490041	47	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,061	$12,688
Camc Charleston Surgical HospitalCharleston, WV · CCN 510091	36	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,064	$3,552
Doctors Hospital Of LaredoLaredo, TX · CCN 450643	53	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,052	$17,141
Mercy Hospital SpringfieldSpringfield, MO · CCN 260065	449	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,072	$7,409
Slidell Memorial HospitalSlidell, LA · CCN 190040	114	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,066	$7,246
Tidelands Waccamaw Community HospitalMurrells Inlet, SC · CCN 420098	120	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,069	$6,565
Flowers HospitalDothan, AL · CCN 010055	124	$1,350	12% below the national average	$1,063	$32,218
University Of Cincinnati Medical Center, LLCCincinnati, OH · CCN 360003	219	$1,350	12% below the national average	$1,070	$11,989
Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton HospitalTullahoma, TN · CCN 440144	29	$1,350	12% below the national average	$1,068	$10,271
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg, PA · CCN 390065	105	$1,351	12% below the national average	$1,076	$6,037
Baptist Memorial HospitalMemphis, TN · CCN 440048	474	$1,351	12% below the national average	$1,066	$10,348
Susan B Allen Memorial HospitalEl Dorado, KS · CCN 170017	27	$1,352	12% below the national average	$1,056	$6,144
East Jefferson General HospitalMetairie, LA · CCN 190176	192	$1,352	12% below the national average	$1,071	$19,661
HCA Florida Mercy HospitalPlantation, FL · CCN 100167	17	$1,352	12% below the national average	$1,024	$20,263
Cleveland ClinicCleveland, OH · CCN 360180	1,123	$1,352	12% below the national average	$1,070	$9,331
Coliseum Medical CentersMacon, GA · CCN 110164	84	$1,353	12% below the national average	$1,064	$12,093
Memorial HealthLawton, OK · CCN 370056	160	$1,353	12% below the national average	$1,063	$10,863
Allen HospitalWaterloo, IA · CCN 160110	248	$1,353	12% below the national average	$1,074	$5,648
Callahan Eye HospitalBirmingham, AL · CCN 010018	18	$1,353	12% below the national average	$1,078	$9,710
St. Vincent's EastBirmingham, AL · CCN 010011	25	$1,353	12% below the national average	$1,078	$11,953
Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic CenterAkron, OH · CCN 360351	62	$1,353	12% below the national average	$1,069	$9,014
MUSC Medical CenterCharleston, SC · CCN 420004 · +$93 outlier payments per case	702	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,072	$9,352
Resolute Health HospitalNew Braunfels, TX · CCN 670098	20	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,067	$17,621
Saint Francis Hospital, IncTulsa, OK · CCN 370091	455	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,072	$9,802
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington, KY · CCN 180010	67	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,069	$9,291
HMHP St Elizabeth Boardman Health CenterBoardman, OH · CCN 360276	43	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,074	$13,449
Baton Rouge General Medical CenterBaton Rouge, LA · CCN 190065	145	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,076	$7,182
Baptist Memorial Hospital DesotoSouthaven, MS · CCN 250141	127	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,068	$10,091
University Of Kansas Health System Great Bend CampusGreat Bend, KS · CCN 170191	58	$1,355	12% below the national average	$1,079	$6,263
Arkansas Methodist Medical CenterParagould, AR · CCN 040039	16	$1,355	12% below the national average	$1,057	$8,137
Candler HospitalSavannah, GA · CCN 110024	428	$1,355	12% below the national average	$1,075	$10,212

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.