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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

Nebraska 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?

$5,595

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,595 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,230 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,365 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$1,230$871 to $1,862
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,365$2,344 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $891 to $13,490Professionalmedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $646 to $3,802
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,365professional $1,230

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
$776.25
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$4,786.30
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$8,511.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,454.71
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$4,897.79
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$6,309.57
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,454.71
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,041.74

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 8th of 49

$5,595

$1,230 physician + $4,365 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.