DRG 579 · Skin

Skin & Breast Surgery Cost in Massachusetts — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery on the skin, the tissue beneath it, or the breast, such as removing a growth or repairing damaged tissue. The stay includes the procedure, wound care, and monitoring during early healing.

State average
$84,572
gross charge · DRG 579
Hospitals
15
with published pricing
Price range
$29,664 – $154,417
low to high
Lowest $29,664 Highest $154,417

15 Massachusetts hospitals publish gross charges for skin & breast surgery (DRG 579). Prices range from $29,664 to $154,417 — roughly 5×. The cheapest is Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton; the most expensive is Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. The state average sits at $84,572.

These numbers are list prices — what the hospital bills before any insurance adjustment. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists skin & breast surgery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent skin & breast surgery admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.

Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Massachusetts hospitals missing from the list either don't perform skin & breast surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 579 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Newton-Wellesley Hospital

    Newton, MA

    Gross charge $29,664
    Cash pay $22,248
  2. 2

    Cambridge Health Alliance

    Cambridge, MA

    Gross charge $37,469
  3. 3

    Lowell General Hospital

    Lowell, MA

    Gross charge $47,137
    Cash pay $32,996
  4. 4

    MelroseWakefield Hospital

    Melrose, MA

    Gross charge $47,137
    Cash pay $32,996
  5. 5

    Southcoast Hospitals Group

    Fall River, MA

    Gross charge $56,634
    Cash pay $28,317
  6. 6

    Umass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals

    Leominster, MA

    Gross charge $81,454
  7. 7

    Umass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital

    Southbridge, MA

    Gross charge $81,454
  8. 8

    Umass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus

    Worcester, MA

    Gross charge $81,454
  9. 9

    Mercy Medical Center

    Springfield, MA

    Gross charge $84,802
    Cash pay $46,641
  10. 10
    Gross charge $87,627
    Cash pay $65,720
  11. 11

    Cooley Dickinson Hospital

    Northampton, MA

    Gross charge $92,542
    Cash pay $69,407
  12. 12

    Tufts Medical Center

    Boston, MA

    Gross charge $94,407
    Cash pay $32,996
  13. 13

    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, MA

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $137,966
    Cash pay $103,475
    Medicare pays (avg) $30,748
  14. 14

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, MA

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $154,417
    Cash pay $115,813
    Medicare pays (avg) $32,543
  15. 15

    Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

    Jamaica Plain, MA

    Gross charge $154,417
    Cash pay $115,813
  16. 16

    Saint Anne's Hospital

    Fall River, MA

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  17. 17

    Holyoke Medical Center

    Holyoke, MA

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  18. 18

    Berkshire Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Pittsfield, MA

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  19. 19

    Heywood Hospital

    Gardner, MA

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  20. 20

    Falmouth Hospital

    Falmouth, MA

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  21. 21

    Fairview Hospital

    Great Barrington, MA

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  22. 22

    Athol Hospital

    Athol, MA

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  23. 23

    Mount Auburn Hospital

    Cambridge, MA

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  24. 24

    Baystate Franklin Medical Center

    Greenfield, MA

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  25. 25

    Anna Jaques Hospital

    Newburyport, MA

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  26. 26

    Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham

    Needham, MA

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  27. 27

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Boston, MA

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  28. 28

    New England Baptist Hospital

    Boston, MA

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  29. 29

    Winchester Hospital

    Winchester, MA

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  30. 30

    Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

    Milton, MA

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  31. 31

    Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington

    Burlington, MA

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