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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Missouri 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?

$251

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $251 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $170 from a physician practice, and about $1,698 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$170$126 to $257
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,698$851 to $3,162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $214 to $5,248Professionalmedian $170 · 10th to 90th $100 to $708
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,698professional $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
$141.25
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,309.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$1,174.90
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$275.42
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$275.42
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$316.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$954.99
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$295.12

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 14th of 51

$251

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.