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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

Alabama rates for HCPCS 15760

A small piece of tissue containing more than one layer, skin together with the cartilage beneath it and often taken from the ear, is moved to rebuild a small defect such as the rim of a nostril. The place the tissue came from is stitched closed during the same operation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage cost?

$2,766

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,766 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $724 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,042 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$724$661 to $813
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,042$1,122 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $776 to $3,802Professionalmedian $724 · 10th to 90th $603 to $977
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,042professional $724

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,365.16
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$933.25

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 4.9 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

Alabama· 39th of 49

$2,766

$724 physician + $2,042 facility

IN $7,485WV $1,518

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.