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Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft

South Carolina 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?

$1,111

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,111 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $240 to the doctor who performs it, and $871 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$240$141 to $282
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$871$661 to $1,288

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $871 · 10th to 90th $525 to $3,467Professionalmedian $240 · 10th to 90th $115 to $331
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $871professional $240

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
$134.90
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$281.84
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,380.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$281.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,905.46
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$331.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$851.14
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$331.13
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$363.08
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
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$186.21

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 44th of 51

$1,111

$240 physician + $871 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.