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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Minnesota 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?

$355

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $355 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $339 from a physician practice, and about $661 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 6 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$339$229 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$661$324 to $1,549

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $661 · 10th to 90th $191 to $2,089Professionalmedian $339 · 10th to 90th $174 to $676
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $661professional $339

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
$104.71
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$190.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$851.14
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,548.82
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$776.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$1,445.44
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$1,230.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$602.56

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$355

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.