Surgery and procedures CPT 10060 New Mexico Outpatient

Abscess drainage cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 18 hospitals publish a cash price for incision and drainage of a simple or single skin abscess: from $132.66 to $2,022.28, with a median of $376.05. The lowest price is at University of New Mexico Hospital (Albuquerque). The highest price is 15.2× the lowest.

The median here, $376.05, is 12% above the US median of $335.34.
That is 1.8× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($204.98).
New Mexico ranks 30th of 50 states by median, cheapest first.
Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 10060. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 6, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$132.66University of New Mexico Hospital

Median$376.05half of hospitals charge less

Highest$2,022.28in New Mexico

Lowest saves$243.39vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
University of New Mexico Hospital lowest Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM SIMPLE OR SINGLE DRAINAGE OF SKIN ABSCESS	$132.66	$241.20	Mar 25, 2026 source file
Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems Taos · Taos, NM I&D ABSCESS, SINGLE/SIMPLE	$209.20	$261.50	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Artesia General Hospital Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM INCISION & DRAINAGE ABSCESS SIMPLE/SINGL	$213.60	$356.00	Feb 20, 2026 source file
Sierra Vista Hospital Truth Or Consequences · Truth Or Consequences, NM 10060 INCISION AND DRAINAGE OF ABSCESS SIMPLE OR SINGLE	$223.50	$298.00	Mar 29, 2026 source file
San Juan Regional Medical Center Farmington · Farmington, NM Simple or single drainage of skin abscess	$241.50	$483.00	Oct 8, 2026 source file
Covenant Hospital Hobbs Hobbs · Hobbs, NM HC ED DRAINAGE OF SKIN ABSCESS SIMPLE OR SINGLE CDM	$307.86	$733.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM 10060 INCISION AND DRAINAGE OF ABSCESS SIMPLE OR SINGLE	$326.30	$407.88	Mar 11, 2026 source file
Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County · Silver City, NM I&D ABSCESS SIMPLE/SINGLE	$333.60	$417.00	Dec 2, 2025 source file
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services Gallup · Gallup, NM 10060-i&d Abscess/cyst/hematoma Simple	$348.00	$1,159.00	— source file
Lovelace Womens Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Simple or single drainage of skin abscess	$404.10	$1,347.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Westside Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Simple or single drainage of skin abscess	$424.50	$1,415.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell Roswell · Roswell, NM Simple or single drainage of skin abscess	$455.10	$1,517.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Medical Center Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Simple or single drainage of skin abscess	$594.90	$1,983.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Los Alamos Medical Center Los Alamos · Albuquerque, NM Incision and drainage of abscess (eg, carbuncle, suppurative hidradenitis, cutaneous or subcutaneous abscess, cyst, furuncle, or paronychia); simple or single	$746.53	$1,244.21	Jul 10, 2026 source file
Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM Incision and drainage of abscess (eg, carbuncle, suppurative hidradenitis, cutaneous or subcutaneous abscess, cyst, furuncle, or paronychia); simple or single	$758.09	$1,263.48	Jul 10, 2026 source file
Carlsbad Medical Center Carlsbad · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM DRAINAGE OF SKIN ABSCESS	$889.29	$8,892.93	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Mountain View Regional Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM DRAINAGE OF SKIN ABSCESS	$1,005.42	$3,723.77	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Roswell · Roswell, NM DRAINAGE OF SKIN ABSCESS	$2,022.28	$9,629.90	Apr 1, 2026 source file

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.

At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Albuquerque, NM	5	$132.66	$424.50
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM	2	$213.60	$551.44
Las Cruces, NM	2	$758.09	$881.76
Roswell, NM	2	$455.10	$1,238.69
Farmington, NM	1	$241.50	$241.50
Grants, NM	1	$326.30	$326.30
Gallup, NM	1	$348.00	$348.00
Hobbs, NM	1	$307.86	$307.86
Silver City, NM	1	$333.60	$333.60
Truth Or Consequences, NM	1	$223.50	$223.50
Taos, NM	1	$209.20	$209.20

Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.

Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.

Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.

Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What abscess drainage is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Abscess drainage explained.

Incision and drainage of a simple or single skin abscess in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.