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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

Michigan 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?

$3,697

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,697 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$813$708 to $977
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$1,000 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $832 to $4,898Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $589 to $1,413
$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,884professional $813

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
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$3,388.44
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,548.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,288.25

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 25th of 49

$3,697

$813 physician + $2,884 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.