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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Arizona 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?

$209

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $209 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $166 from a physician practice, and about $2,239 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 5 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$166$115 to $224
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,239$1,288 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $295 to $5,623Professionalmedian $166 · 10th to 90th $98 to $617
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,239professional $166

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
$1,445.44
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$263.03
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$1,862.09
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$239.88

Where Arizona 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.

Arizona· 24th of 51

$209

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.