# Stitches for a face or neck cut, 2.6 to 5 cm in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `12013`. Prices for this code at 26 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/stitches-for-a-face-or-neck-cut-2-6-to-5-cm

HC RESUPERF WND FACE 2.6-5 CM

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 11 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 14 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $156 |
| Typical | $377 |
| Dearest tenth | $1,343 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 9-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $154 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $202 | $48 | $37,500 | 191 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $154 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $202 | $48 | $37,500 | 190 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $154 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $202 | $48 | $50,000 | 192 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $159 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $202 | $48 | $50,000 | 210 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $159 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $202 | $48 | $50,000 | 210 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $898 | $114 | $2,041 | $50 | $4,275 | 86 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE (19.7 mi) | 1/5 | $206 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $200 | $190 | $917 | 41 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | not rated | $352 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $514 | $215 | $514 | 28 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA (2.3 mi) | not rated | $352 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $514 | $220 | $514 | 28 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $374 | $374 | not mentioned | $741 | $202 | $5,063 | 11 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $377 | $377 | not mentioned | $741 | $204 | $5,063 | 11 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $377 | $377 | not mentioned | $741 | $204 | $5,063 | 11 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $377 | $377 | not mentioned | $741 | $204 | $5,063 | 11 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $377 | $377 | not mentioned | $741 | $204 | $5,063 | 11 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA (33.1 mi) | 3/5 | $439 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $439 | $159 | $681 | 17 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA (16.0 mi) | 1/5 | $885 | $885 | not mentioned | $371 | $201 | $4,840 | 14 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS (22.2 mi) | 3/5 | $925 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $370 | $148 | $1,233 | 16 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE (25.0 mi) | 3/5 | $1,017 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $370 | $119 | $1,233 | 16 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA (3.0 mi) | 4/5 | $1,017 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $370 | $148 | $1,233 | 16 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE (21.0 mi) | 2/5 | $1,048 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $370 | $105 | $1,233 | 16 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $1,122 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $354 | $230 | $1,181 | 16 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $1,343 | $1,343 | not mentioned | $371 | $201 | $4,840 | 15 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $1,343 | $1,343 | not mentioned | $371 | $204 | $4,840 | 15 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $1,343 | $1,343 | not mentioned | $371 | $204 | $4,840 | 15 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $1,343 | $1,343 | not mentioned | $371 | $201 | $4,840 | 15 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK (17.9 mi) | 4/5 | $1,343 | $1,343 | not mentioned | $371 | $204 | $4,840 | 15 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 12 of the 26 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 14 it is higher.

1 of these 26 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

## Others in skin, breast & wound care

- [Abscess drainage](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/abscess-drainage) -- 113 hospitals, typically $316
- [Needle drainage of a cyst, abscess or blood collection](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/needle-drainage-of-a-cyst-abscess-or-blood-collection) -- 105 hospitals, typically $757
- [Fine needle biopsy with ultrasound guidance](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/fine-needle-biopsy-with-ultrasound-guidance) -- 94 hospitals, typically $1,508
- [Breast lump removal](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/breast-lump-removal) -- 64 hospitals, typically $3,960

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.