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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 11920

Places colored pigment into the skin to disguise a patch whose color differs from the skin around it, such as a pale scar, a burn, or an area that has lost its pigment. The pigment is deposited with fine needles and stays in the skin. This covers treatment of a small area.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction cost?

$182

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $182 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $145 from a physician practice, and about $741 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$145$123 to $182
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$741$331 to $1,072

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $741 · 10th to 90th $141 to $1,820Professionalmedian $145 · 10th to 90th $100 to $234
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $741professional $145

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$234.42
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$316.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$275.42
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$257.04

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 9.3 times more in California than in Washington, DC. 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.

Arkansas· 41st of 51

$182

CA $1,349DC $145

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.