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Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft

Delaware 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?

$967

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $967 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $191 to the doctor who performs it, and $776 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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$191$120 to $245
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$776$562 to $1,698

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $776 · 10th to 90th $355 to $2,399Professionalmedian $191 · 10th to 90th $107 to $302
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $776professional $191

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$239.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$346.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$323.59

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 47th of 51

$967

$191 physician + $776 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.