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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Nevada 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?

$178

Typical negotiated rate. In Nevada, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $178 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$105 to $186
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,698$178 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $102 to $4,365Professionalmedian $170 · 10th to 90th $98 to $324
$50$200$1K$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
$102.33
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$363.08
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$4,466.84
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$288.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$295.12
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$338.84
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$323.59
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$213.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$346.74

Where Nevada 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.

Nevada· 42nd of 51

$178

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.