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Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated

Alaska rates for HCPCS 17003

Destruction of a further precancerous skin patch, most often a rough, scaly, sun-damaged spot, by freezing, burning, scraping or a similar method during the same visit. It is billed in addition to the first such spot treated at that visit. Only precancerous spots are covered; destroying harmless growths is a different service.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated cost?

$10.72

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.72 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.72 from a physician practice, and about $43.65 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$10.72$5.37 to $19.05
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$43.65$9.55 to $89.13

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $44 · 10th to 90th $3 to $4,677Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $4 to $27
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $44professional $11

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
$13.18
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.63
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$30.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$0.87
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$15.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.14
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$18.62
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$30.90
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.17
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$20.42
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$26.92
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$30.90
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$60.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$67.61

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 2.2 times more in Alaska than in Maine. 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.

Alaska· 1st of 51

$10.72

AK $10.72ME $4.79

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.