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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

Delaware 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?

$4,130

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,130 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,388 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$741$617 to $851
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,388$1,413 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $724 to $7,244Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $603 to $1,862
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,388professional $741

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,174.90
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 19th of 49

$4,130

$741 physician + $3,388 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.