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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Kansas 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 Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $200 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $166 from a physician practice, and about $2,692 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$126 to $245
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,692$562 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $182 to $7,943Professionalmedian $166 · 10th to 90th $95 to $257
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $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
$204.17
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,128.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$257.04
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$295.12
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$1,258.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$269.15

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 28th 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.