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Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft

Rhode Island 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?

$2,044

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,044 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $224 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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$224$135 to $275
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$891 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $646 to $4,898Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $117 to $380
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,820professional $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
$2,089.30
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$269.15
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$380.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$467.74

Where Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island· 18th of 51

$2,044

$224 physician + $1,820 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.