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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

New Jersey 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?

$182

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $182 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $162 from a physician practice, and about $4,898 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$162$105 to $219
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,898$2,884 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $339 to $10,471Professionalmedian $162 · 10th to 90th $95 to $1,148
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $162

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
$338.84
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$4,466.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$363.08
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$354.81
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,235.94
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$323.59
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$302.00

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 40th of 51

$182

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.