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Burn Care, Small Area

Delaware rates for HCPCS 16020

Cleaning, dressing changes, and/or removal of damaged tissue for a partial-thickness burn covering a small area, generally under about 5% of the body's total skin surface. This can be an initial treatment or a follow-up visit as the burn heals.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Burn Care, Small Area cost?

$537

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $537 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $69.18 to the doctor who performs it, and $468 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$69.18$48.98 to $87.10
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$468$74.13 to $603

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $468 · 10th to 90th $48 to $813Professionalmedian $69 · 10th to 90th $47 to $151
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $468professional $69

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
$47.86
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$812.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$151.36
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$112.20
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$501.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$112.20

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 21.6 times more in California than in Maryland. 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

Delaware· 32nd of 51

$537

$69.18 physician + $468 facility

CA $3,800MD $176

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.