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Lab-Grown Skin Graft to Face, Hands or Feet

Kentucky 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?

$2,336

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,336 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $676 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,660 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$676$603 to $813
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,660$832 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $661 to $4,266Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $537 to $955
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,660professional $676

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
$616.60
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$812.83
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$4,265.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$954.99
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$3,311.31
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,096.48
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,344.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$4,073.80
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,258.93
2 more rates 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
Facility
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$524.81

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 47th of 51

$2,336

$676 physician + $1,660 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.