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Composite Graft of Skin With Cartilage

Tennessee 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?

$2,982

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,982 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $794 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 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$794$661 to $1,000
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$1,514 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $851 to $4,266Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $562 to $1,479
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,188professional $794

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
$741.31
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,698.24
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,309.57
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$28,840.32
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,548.82

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 36th of 49

$2,982

$794 physician + $2,188 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.