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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Iowa 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?

$288

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $288 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $263 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 7 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$263$162 to $437
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,239$490 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $240 to $6,761Professionalmedian $263 · 10th to 90th $110 to $759
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,239professional $263

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
$288.40
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$1,348.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$588.84
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$758.58
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,778.28
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,230.27
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$436.52
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$426.58

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 6th of 51

$288

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.