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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Oklahoma 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?

$257

Typical negotiated rate. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $257 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $182 from a physician practice, and about $1,000 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 4 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$182$110 to $195
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,000$501 to $2,455

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $145 to $6,310Professionalmedian $182 · 10th to 90th $107 to $275
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,000professional $182

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
$194.98
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$194.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$275.42
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$1,548.82
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$223.87

Where Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma· 10th of 51

$257

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.