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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Nebraska 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?

$275

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $275 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $214 from a physician practice, and about $3,802 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$214$174 to $407
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,802$2,188 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $363 to $13,490Professionalmedian $214 · 10th to 90th $100 to $617
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,802professional $214

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
$2,187.76
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$14,454.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$1,148.15
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$6,165.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$371.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$512.86
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$1,230.27
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,479.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$512.86
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$436.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$457.09

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 7th of 51

$275

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.