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Lab-Grown Skin Graft to Face, Hands or Feet

Iowa 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 July 2026.

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

$4,833

Typical total for the visit. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,833 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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$1,202$871 to $1,950
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$1,862 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $1,096 to $8,128Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $692 to $4,467
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $1,202

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$5,011.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,290.87
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,089.30
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$9,549.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$5,370.32
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,995.26
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 7.1 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Iowa· 13th of 49

$4,833

$1,202 physician + $3,631 facility

IN $10,708WV $1,500

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.