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Removal of a Soft-Tissue Growth in the Lower Leg

Utah rates for HCPCS 27632

Removes a growth from the fatty layer lying just under the skin of the lower leg or ankle, rather than from beneath the covering of the muscles. A margin of normal tissue is usually taken with it, and the specimen is sent to a laboratory to be identified. The wound is closed with stitches.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removal of a Soft-Tissue Growth in the Lower Leg cost?

$4,730

Typical total for the visit. In Utah, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,730 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $263 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,467 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$263$69.18 to $331
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,467$1,514 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $603 to $7,943Professionalmedian $263 · 10th to 90th $49 to $457
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $4,467professional $263

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$602.56
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$346.74
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$8,511.38
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$616.60
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$831.76
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,047.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$724.44
3 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$416.87
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$12,882.50

Where Utah sits

The same service costs 5.1 times more in Colorado than in Montana. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Utah· 7th of 51

$4,730

$263 physician + $4,467 facility

CO $6,741MT $1,322

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.