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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

South Carolina 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?

$191

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $191 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $162 from a physician practice, and about $933 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$162$117 to $209
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$933$209 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $120 to $9,772Professionalmedian $162 · 10th to 90th $107 to $245
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $933professional $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
$117.49
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$288.40
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$275.42
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$263.03

Where South Carolina 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.

South Carolina· 33rd of 51

$191

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.