Surgery and procedures CPT 12001 Connecticut Outpatient

Stitches, small wound cost in Connecticut

In Connecticut, 7 hospitals publish a cash price for simple repair of a superficial wound 2.5 cm or less, scalp, neck, body or limbs: from $191.70 to $645.53, with a median of $397.10. The lowest price is at Day Kimball Healthcare (Putnam). The highest price is 3.4× the lowest.

The median here, $397.10, is 29% above the US median of $307.12.
That is 1.9× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($204.98).
Connecticut ranks 38th of 49 states by median, cheapest first.
3 of 7 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Connecticut law (C.G.S. §19a-673): if you are uninsured, your income is at or below 250% of the federal poverty level and Medicaid has turned you down, a hospital and the clinicians billing through it may collect no more than the cost of your care (its charges times its cost-to-charge ratio), which is usually well below its list price. Ask the billing office to apply it. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 12001. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 27, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$191.70Day Kimball Healthcare

Median$397.10half of hospitals charge less

Highest$645.53in Connecticut

Lowest saves$205.40vs the median

Hospitals in Connecticut, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
Day Kimball Healthcare lowest Putnam · Putnam, CT EXCISION BENIGN LESION SINGLE<2.5CM	$191.70	$503.15	Aug 1, 2026 source file
UConn Health, Waterbury Hospital Waterbury · Waterbury, CT Simple surf wound repair of scalp/neck/trunk/ax <2.5cm 12001	$315.14	$630.27	May 13, 2026 source file
The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital Torrington · Torrington, CT HC SIMPLE REPAIR SCALP/NECK/AX/GENIT/TRUNK 2.5CM/<	$352.29	$352.29	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hartford · Hartford, CT HC Repair Superficial Wounds Simple Scalp/Neck/Axillae/Genitalia/Trunk/Extermities <= 2.5 Cm	$397.10	$722.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
John Dempsey Hospital of the University of Connecticut Farmington · Farmington, CT HC SIMPLE REPAIR SCALP/NECK/AX/GENIT/TRUNK 2.5CM/<	$504.00	$840.00	Jul 1, 2026 source file
The William W Backus Hospital Norwich · Norwich, CT HC SIMPLE REPAIR SCALP/NECK/AX/GENIT/TRUNK 2.5CM/<	$562.00	$562.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Manchester Memorial Hospital Manchester · Manchester, CT REPAIR SUP WOUND 2.5CM OR LESS	$645.53	$645.53	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

No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

By metro area

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

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Farmington, CT	1	$504.00	$504.00
Hartford, CT	1	$397.10	$397.10
Manchester, CT	1	$645.53	$645.53
Norwich, CT	1	$562.00	$562.00
Putnam, CT	1	$191.70	$191.70
Torrington, CT	1	$352.29	$352.29
Waterbury, CT	1	$315.14	$315.14

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 stitches, small wound is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Stitches, small wound explained.

Simple repair of a superficial wound 2.5 cm or less, scalp, neck, body or limbs in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.