Surgery and procedures CPT 10120 New Mexico Outpatient

Foreign body removal cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 16 hospitals publish a cash price for removal of a foreign object under the skin, simple: from $228.40 to $2,934.30, with a median of $591.81. The lowest price is at Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems (Taos). The highest price is 12.8× the lowest.

The median here, $591.81, is 22% above the US median of $484.50.
That is 1.4× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($415.32).
New Mexico ranks 38th 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 10120. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 4, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$228.40Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems

Median$591.81half of hospitals charge less

Highest$2,934.30in New Mexico

Lowest saves$363.41vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems lowest Taos · Taos, NM INCISE RMVL FB SQ TISS SIMPLE	$228.40	$285.50	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Artesia General Hospital Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM INCISION & REMVAL FOREIGN BODY SQ SIMPLE	$271.80	$453.00	Feb 20, 2026 source file
San Juan Regional Medical Center Farmington · Farmington, NM Removal of foreign body from tissue, accessed beneath the skin, simple	$287.50	$575.00	Oct 8, 2026 source file
University of New Mexico Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY FROM TISSUE; ACCESSED BENEATH THE SKIN; SIMPLE	$302.50	$550.00	Mar 25, 2026 source file
Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM 10120 INCISION AND REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES SIMPLE	$391.40	$489.25	Mar 11, 2026 source file
Sierra Vista Hospital Truth Or Consequences · Truth Or Consequences, NM 10120 INCISION AND REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODY SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES SIMPLE	$427.50	$570.00	Sep 21, 2026 source file
Los Alamos Medical Center Los Alamos · Albuquerque, NM Incision and removal of foreign body, subcutaneous tissues; simple	$462.89	$771.48	Jul 10, 2026 source file
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell Roswell · Roswell, NM Removal of foreign body from tissue, accessed beneath the skin, simple	$591.00	$1,970.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Covenant Hospital Hobbs Hobbs · Hobbs, NM HC ED REMOVE FOREIGN BODY SIMPLE CDM	$592.62	$1,411.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Carlsbad Medical Center Carlsbad · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM REMOVE FOREIGN BODY	$1,023.44	$10,234.40	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM Incision and removal of foreign body, subcutaneous tissues; simple	$1,086.83	$1,811.38	Jul 10, 2026 source file
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Roswell · Roswell, NM REMOVE FOREIGN BODY	$2,021.32	$9,625.33	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Mountain View Regional Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM REMOVE FOREIGN BODY	$2,502.30	$9,267.77	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Lovelace Medical Center Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Removal of foreign body from tissue, accessed beneath the skin, simple	$2,879.10	$9,597.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Westside Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Removal of foreign body from tissue, accessed beneath the skin, simple	$2,934.30	$9,781.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Lovelace Womens Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Removal of foreign body from tissue, accessed beneath the skin, simple	$2,934.30	$9,781.00	Mar 31, 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	$302.50	$2,879.10
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM	2	$271.80	$647.62
Las Cruces, NM	2	$1,086.83	$1,794.56
Roswell, NM	2	$591.00	$1,306.16
Farmington, NM	1	$287.50	$287.50
Grants, NM	1	$391.40	$391.40
Hobbs, NM	1	$592.62	$592.62
Truth Or Consequences, NM	1	$427.50	$427.50
Taos, NM	1	$228.40	$228.40

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 foreign body removal is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Foreign body removal explained.

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