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Surgery and procedures CPT 11600 New Mexico Outpatient

Skin cancer removal cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 6 hospitals publish a cash price for skin cancer removal (excision), body, arms or legs, up to 0.5 cm: from $217.20 to $21,153.46, with a median of $758.49. The lowest price is at Artesia General Hospital (Artesia). The highest price is 97.4× the lowest.

  • The median here, $758.49, is 8% above the US median of $705.38.
  • That is about the same as Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($723.47).
  • New Mexico ranks 23rd of 40 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 11600. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 29, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$217.20Artesia General Hospital
Median$758.49half of hospitals charge less
Highest$21,153.46in New Mexico
Lowest saves$541.29vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Artesia General Hospital lowest Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM EXCISION MAL LESION TRUNK/ARM/LEG 0.5 CM $217.20 $362.00 Feb 20, 2026
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University of New Mexico Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM EXC TR-EXT MAL+MARG 0.5 CM/< $411.85 $748.81 Mar 25, 2026
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Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM 11600 EXCISION MALIGNANT LESION INCLUDING MARGINS TRUNK ARMS OR LEGS < 0.5CM $500.17 $625.21 Mar 11, 2026
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Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems Taos · Taos, NM EXC MAL LES TRUNK/ARM/LEG =<.5CM DIAM $1,016.80 $1,271.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM Excision, malignant lesion including margins, trunk, arms, or legs; excised diameter 0.5 cm or less $10,888.67 $18,147.79 Jul 10, 2026
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Los Alamos Medical Center Los Alamos · Albuquerque, NM Excision, malignant lesion including margins, trunk, arms, or legs; excised diameter 0.5 cm or less $21,153.46 $35,255.78 Jul 10, 2026
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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 areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Albuquerque, NM 2 $411.85 $10,782.66
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM 1 $217.20 $217.20
Grants, NM 1 $500.17 $500.17
Las Cruces, NM 1 $10,888.67 $10,888.67
Taos, NM 1 $1,016.80 $1,016.80
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 skin cancer removal is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Skin cancer removal explained.

Skin cancer removal (excision), body, arms or legs, up to 0.5 cm in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.