Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Suction lipectomy lwr extrem
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 52–520 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$9
Average
$5.5k
Median
$4.9k
High
$31.1k
Filter by billing methodology
Showing prices across every billing methodology. Pick one in the filter above to narrow the chart. 1539 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 3.3× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
Click a bar to filter the hospitals table to that price range.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria, VA | $5.7k | $6.5k | $3.1k | 47% | 12–120 | $2.6k – $14.6k |
| 2 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $3.6k | $6.3k | $5.5k | 86% | 7–70 | $33 – $24.7k |
| 3 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY | $8.2k | $8.8k | $1.8k | 21% | 3–30 | $7.0k – $12.6k |
| 4 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $9.5k | $8.4k | $1.6k | 19% | 3–30 | $6.2k – $9.5k |
| 5 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Harrison, NY | $8.2k | $8.8k | $1.8k | 21% | 3–30 | $7.0k – $12.6k |
| 6 | Dignity Health Phoenix, AZ | $3.9k | $4.2k | $822 | 20% | 2–20 | $3.8k – $7.4k |
| 7 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $2.4k | $3.9k | $3.9k | 100% | 2–20 | $0 – $20k |
| 8 | Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg, VA | $5.7k | $6.5k | $3.1k | 48% | 2–20 | $2.6k – $14.8k |
| 9 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Basking Ridge, NJ | $8.2k | $8.4k | $1.6k | 19% | 2–20 | $6.3k – $11.6k |
| 10 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $5.2k | $5.6k | $2.5k | 45% | 2–20 | $3.1k – $12.8k |
Ask Claude or any MCP client for CPT 15879 pricing at a specific hospital — see how to connect.