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Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft

Arizona 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?

$1,542

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,542 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $224 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,318 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$224$117 to $263
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,318$661 to $2,512

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $501 to $4,898Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $110 to $1,000
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,318professional $224

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
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$263.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,344.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$281.84
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,905.46
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$281.84

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 27th of 51

$1,542

$224 physician + $1,318 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.