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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Georgia 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?

$200

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $200 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $170 from a physician practice, and about $2,630 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$170$117 to $214
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,630$1,259 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $288 to $7,079Professionalmedian $170 · 10th to 90th $95 to $347
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,630professional $170

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
$165.96
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$354.81
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$4,168.69
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$302.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$380.19
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$426.58

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 27th of 51

$200

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.