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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Massachusetts 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?

$229

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $229 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $224 from a physician practice, and about $1,047 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 8 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$224$132 to $302
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,047$135 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $132 to $3,467Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $105 to $525
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,047professional $224

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
$131.83
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$489.78
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,818.38
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$316.23
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$50.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$457.09
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$3,630.78
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$380.19
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,467.37
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$549.54
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,818.38
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$549.54

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 16th of 51

$229

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.