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Lab-Grown Skin Graft to Face, Hands or Feet

Colorado rates for HCPCS 15155

Applies a sheet of skin grown in a laboratory from a small sample of the patient's own skin onto a wound of the face, scalp, eyelids, mouth, neck, ears, genitals, hands or feet. It covers the first and smallest area treated in the session; further area treated is billed in addition.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Lab-Grown Skin Graft to Face, Hands or Feet cost?

$7,143

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,143 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,166 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$977$813 to $1,230
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,166$3,020 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $12,589Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $741 to $1,660
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,166professional $977

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
$1,258.93
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,047.13
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$13,182.57
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$3,715.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,202.26
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,230.27
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,479.11
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$3,235.94
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$11,220.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,479.11
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
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$575.44

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in Alaska than in South Carolina. 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

Colorado· 2nd of 51

$7,143

$977 physician + $6,166 facility

AK $7,738SC $1,719

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.