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Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 15040

A small piece of the patient's own skin is harvested so that skin cells can be grown in a laboratory into a sheet large enough to cover a wound. The harvest itself is a short procedure; the cultured sheet is applied at a later operation. It is used for extensive burns and other wounds where there is too little healthy skin to graft directly.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft cost?

$1,449

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,449 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $219 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,230 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$219$138 to $263
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,230$851 to $1,738

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $457 to $2,399Professionalmedian $219 · 10th to 90th $117 to $339
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,230professional $219

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
$138.04
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$263.03
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,398.83
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$331.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$380.19

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 7.9 times more in Colorado than in North Dakota. 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

Arkansas· 34th of 51

$1,449

$219 physician + $1,230 facility

CO $4,634ND $587

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.