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Preparing a Wound Site for Skin Grafting

Kansas rates for HCPCS 15002

In this procedure, a doctor surgically prepares an area of skin loss, burn, or scar tissue on the trunk, arms, or legs so it is ready to receive a skin graft. This typically involves removing damaged or non-healing tissue to create a clean, healthy surface for the graft to attach to.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Preparing a Wound Site for Skin Grafting cost?

$1,168

Typical total for the visit. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,168 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $355 to the doctor who performs it, and $813 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$355$295 to $479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$813$776 to $1,259

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $501 to $3,715Professionalmedian $355 · 10th to 90th $234 to $589
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $813professional $355

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$512.86
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$16,218.10
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$489.78
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$338.84

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 6.7 times more in Colorado than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Kansas· 33rd of 51

$1,168

$355 physician + $813 facility

CO $4,532WV $678

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.