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Lab-Grown Skin Graft to Face, Hands or Feet

South Carolina 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?

$1,719

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,719 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $977 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$741$631 to $851
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$977$813 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $977 · 10th to 90th $646 to $5,623Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $186 to $1,072
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $977professional $741

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
$794.33
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$870.96
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,949.84
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,951.21
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,023.29
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,122.02
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,995.26
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$912.01
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,047.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,288.25
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
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$602.56
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$562.34

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 51st of 51

$1,719

$741 physician + $977 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.