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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

Louisiana 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?

$2,569

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,569 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,698 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$871$759 to $1,023
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$1,000 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $692 to $4,365Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $692 to $1,096
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,698professional $871

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
$676.08
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$4,168.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,096.48
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,248.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,000.00
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,258.93

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 41st of 49

$2,569

$871 physician + $1,698 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.