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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

North Dakota 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 North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $251 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $269 from a physician practice, and about $186 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$269$191 to $417
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$186$112 to $191

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $186 · 10th to 90th $105 to $1,995Professionalmedian $269 · 10th to 90th $112 to $513
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $186professional $269

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
$186.21
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$537.03
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$331.13
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$407.38

Where North Dakota 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.

North Dakota· 13th 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.