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Full-Thickness Skin Graft (Face, Hands, Feet)

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 15240

A surgical procedure that takes a full-thickness patch of skin, including all skin layers, from a donor area of the body and transplants it to cover a wound on the face, hands, feet, genital area, or a few other specific locations, closing the donor site directly afterward. It is used to repair skin loss from injury, surgery to remove a lesion, or other tissue damage in these areas.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Full-Thickness Skin Graft (Face, Hands, Feet) cost?

$1,047

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,047 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $955 from a physician practice, and about $1,950 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 5 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$955$832 to $1,122
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,950$1,096 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $832 to $4,365Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $741 to $1,318
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,950professional $955

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
$831.76
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,318.26
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,365.16
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,096.48
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.0 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.

Louisiana· 29th of 51

$1,047

HI $2,455DE $813

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.