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 South Carolina

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

South Carolina

Specific hospitals up to 10

Sort by

Order

Year of care

Average payment across these 43 hospitals: $1,374National $1,539 · South Carolina $1,374
Median hospital: $1,377
Lowest to highest: $1,065–$1,512
Medicare procedures: 7,381

43 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024. 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
Novant Health East Cooper Medical CenterMount Pleasant, SC · CCN 420089	30	$1,065	31% below the national average	$772	$10,944
Piedmont Medical CenterRock Hill, SC · CCN 420002	174	$1,182	23% below the national average	$878	$18,636
Beaufort County Memorial HospitalBeaufort, SC · CCN 420067	208	$1,263	18% below the national average	$1,000	$5,804
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical CenterHilton Head Island, SC · CCN 420080	225	$1,296	16% below the national average	$1,008	$13,456
KershawHealthCamden, SC · CCN 420048	26	$1,308	15% below the national average	$1,017	$9,427
Conway Medical CenterConway, SC · CCN 420049	210	$1,312	15% below the national average	$1,043	$6,299
Prisma Health Baptist Easley HospitalEasley, SC · CCN 420015	27	$1,319	14% below the national average	$1,032	$14,668
MUSC Health Marion Medical CenterMullins, SC · CCN 420055	18	$1,327	14% below the national average	$1,045	$19,030
Tidelands Waccamaw Community HospitalMurrells Inlet, SC · CCN 420098	120	$1,349	12% below the national average	$1,069	$6,565
MUSC Medical CenterCharleston, SC · CCN 420004 · +$93 outlier payments per case	702	$1,354	12% below the national average	$1,072	$9,352
Roper St Francis Hospital-Berkeley IncSummerville, SC · CCN 420110	96	$1,356	12% below the national average	$1,070	$7,316
McLeod Regional Medical Center-Pee DeeFlorence, SC · CCN 420051	237	$1,362	11% below the national average	$1,078	$10,925
Coastal Carolina HospitalHardeeville, SC · CCN 420101	209	$1,362	11% below the national average	$1,079	$20,608
Prisma Health Tuomey HospitalSumter, SC · CCN 420070	198	$1,363	11% below the national average	$1,080	$9,715
Roper HospitalCharleston, SC · CCN 420087	201	$1,365	11% below the national average	$1,084	$10,298
McLeod Loris HospitalLoris, SC · CCN 420105	164	$1,369	11% below the national average	$1,079	$11,828
Prisma Health Baptist ParkridgeColumbia, SC · CCN 420106	130	$1,369	11% below the national average	$1,085	$9,012
Prisma Health BaptistColumbia, SC · CCN 420086	321	$1,372	11% below the national average	$1,087	$8,812
Lexington Medical CenterWest Columbia, SC · CCN 420073	604	$1,374	11% below the national average	$1,086	$13,106
Aiken Regional Medical CenterAiken, SC · CCN 420082	83	$1,375	11% below the national average	$1,086	$17,785
Trident Medical CenterCharleston, SC · CCN 420079	238	$1,376	11% below the national average	$1,089	$19,988
Prisma Health Richland HospitalColumbia, SC · CCN 420018	129	$1,377	11% below the national average	$1,092	$15,273
St Francis-DowntownGreenville, SC · CCN 420023	273	$1,378	10% below the national average	$1,091	$10,679
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial HospitalGreenville, SC · CCN 420078	308	$1,380	10% below the national average	$1,096	$13,688
Mount Pleasant HospitalMount Pleasant, SC · CCN 420104	150	$1,382	10% below the national average	$1,098	$7,349
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier HospitalCharleston, SC · CCN 420065	291	$1,384	10% below the national average	$1,095	$7,039
Newberry County Memorial HospitalNewberry, SC · CCN 420053	12	$1,388	About average	$1,086	$9,096
MUSC Health Florence Medical CenterFlorence, SC · CCN 420091	106	$1,389	About average	$1,106	$23,972
Grand Strand Regional Medical CenterMyrtle Beach, SC · CCN 420085	253	$1,389	About average	$1,103	$20,606
Prisma Health Patewood HospitalGreenville, SC · CCN 420102	412	$1,389	About average	$1,103	$8,722
McLeod Health ClarendonManning, SC · CCN 420109	13	$1,393	About average	$1,092	$12,484
Prisma Health Hillcrest HospitalSimpsonville, SC · CCN 420037	21	$1,398	About average	$1,114	$16,665
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial HospitalGeorgetown, SC · CCN 420020	29	$1,399	About average	$1,115	$5,038
Pelham Medical CenterGreer, SC · CCN 420103	52	$1,410	About average	$1,118	$7,546
MUSC Health Columbia Medical Center DowntownColumbia, SC · CCN 420026	119	$1,422	About average	$1,129	$9,673
Prisma Health Laurens County HospitalClinton, SC · CCN 420038	17	$1,428	About average	$1,123	$13,484
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster, SC · CCN 420036	116	$1,437	About average	$1,140	$18,721
Carolina Pines Regional Medical CenterHartsville, SC · CCN 420010	19	$1,442	About average	$1,148	$38,122
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial HospitalSeneca, SC · CCN 420009	53	$1,450	About average	$1,140	$10,085
Self Regional HealthcareGreenwood, SC · CCN 420071	194	$1,456	About average	$1,154	$8,908
Anmed HealthAnderson, SC · CCN 420027	172	$1,467	About average	$1,163	$10,297
Colleton Medical CenterWalterboro, SC · CCN 420030	22	$1,498	About average	$1,194	$9,054
Spartanburg Medical CenterSpartanburg, SC · CCN 420007	399	$1,512	About average	$1,193	$9,777

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

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.

Show all 50 states

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.