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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Vermont 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 physician fee. In Vermont, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $195 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $126 to $200.

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.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $195 · 10th to 90th $112 to $257
$200$500professional $195

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$199.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$416.87
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$436.52

Where Vermont 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.

Vermont· 32nd 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.