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Lab-Grown Skin Graft, Face Or Hands, Added Area

Washington rates for HCPCS 15156

Placement of skin grown in a laboratory from a small sample of the patient's own skin onto the face, scalp, eyelids, mouth, neck, ears, genitals, hands, or feet. It is used mainly to cover large burns or wounds when too little healthy skin remains to take a graft from. This covers additional surface treated beyond the first area, billed in addition to it.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Lab-Grown Skin Graft, Face Or Hands, Added Area cost?

$282

Typical negotiated rate. In Washington, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $282 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $245 from a physician practice, and about $355 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 10 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$245$200 to $355
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$355$269 to $525

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $355 · 10th to 90th $200 to $6,607Professionalmedian $245 · 10th to 90th $170 to $437
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $355professional $245

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
$199.53
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$758.58
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$467.74
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$389.05
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$389.05
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$75.86
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$316.23
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$218.78
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$416.87
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$724.44
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$389.05
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$436.52
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$263.03

Where Washington sits

The same service costs 10.7 times more in Hawaii than in Delaware. 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.

Washington· 9th of 51

$282

HI $1,514DE $141

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.