Price Atlas / Surgery rates / Skin abscess drainage / Research Triangle NC
Skin abscess drainage in Research Triangle NC Every commercial insurer rate these hospitals posted, as a dollar amount and as a multiple of the hospital's own Medicare base rate.
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CPT 10060 Hospital · insurer Rate × Medicare Plans UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill) median $488 · local Medicare $200 · file 2026-04-01 Aetna $488 2.4× 2 BCBS NC $488 2.4× 3 Cigna $488 2.4× 1 UnitedHealthcare $488 2.4× 4 UNC Rex Hospital median $832 · local Medicare $203 · file 2026-04-01 UnitedHealthcare $832 4.1× 3 North Carolina Specialty Hospital median $1,350 · local Medicare $200 · file 2026-02-25 Aetna $1,350 6.8× 1
CPT 10061 Hospital · insurer Rate × Medicare Plans UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill) median $633 · local Medicare $405 · file 2026-04-01 Aetna $633 1.6× 2 BCBS NC $633 1.6× 3 Cigna $633 1.6× 1 UnitedHealthcare $633 1.6× 4
Questions How much does skin abscess drainage cost with commercial insurance in Research Triangle NC? 3 Research Triangle NC hospitals post usable commercial rates for CPT 10060, hospital outpatient. The median across hospitals is $832 ; hospital medians range from $488 to $1,350. Your cost depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.
Techy Surgeon Price Atlas · commercial rates from hospital price-transparency files as of 2026-09-27. Commercial plans only; payer-specific dollar amounts for the exact code and setting (grade A); no professional-fee, percent-of-charges, per-diem, algorithm or unnamed-payer rows; no duplicate campus files; each rate between 0.5x (outpatient) or 0.6x (inpatient) and 8x the same hospital's local Medicare base rate. Median across each insurer's plans. Historical rates the hospitals themselves posted. Percentiles only where the comparison group has 5 or more hospitals. Market transparency, not pricing guidance. Medicare anchor = the same hospital's local Medicare base rate (OPPS or IPPS FY2026, wage-adjusted; inpatient anchors exclude teaching and safety-net add-ons). Rates are posted contract amounts, not what any patient paid. Method . Free to use; cite as Techy Surgeon Price Atlas (2026).