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Taking A Skin Sample To Grow A Graft

Tennessee 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?

$1,778

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,778 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $229 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$229$138 to $347
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$1,023 to $2,512

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $617 to $3,388Professionalmedian $229 · 10th to 90th $107 to $1,862
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $229

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
$1,071.52
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$295.12
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$371.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$371.54
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$398.11

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 22nd of 51

$1,778

$229 physician + $1,549 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.