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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Tennessee 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?

$195

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $195 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $162 from a physician practice, and about $1,349 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$115 to $209
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,349$603 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $295 to $3,236Professionalmedian $162 · 10th to 90th $91 to $339
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,349professional $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
$354.81
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,073.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$288.40
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,041.74
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$316.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$338.84
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$309.03

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 31st of 51

$195

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.