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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

New Jersey 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?

$6,647

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,647 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $759 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,888 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$759$646 to $1,148
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,888$4,365 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,888 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $10,471Professionalmedian $759 · 10th to 90th $603 to $3,802
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,888professional $759

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
$1,202.26
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$5,248.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,737.80
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,380.38
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$9,549.93
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,412.54

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 2nd of 49

$6,647

$759 physician + $5,888 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.