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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

New Mexico 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?

$214

Typical negotiated rate. In New Mexico, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $214 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $191 from a physician practice, and about $794 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$191$129 to $309
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$794$204 to $1,445

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $794 · 10th to 90th $151 to $2,089Professionalmedian $191 · 10th to 90th $105 to $617
$100$1K$10Kfacility $794professional $191

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
$158.49
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$2,137.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,905.46
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$295.12
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$281.84
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$338.84
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$316.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$316.23

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 21st of 51

$214

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.