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Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated

Alabama 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?

$5.89

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5.89 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.50 from a physician practice, and about $525 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 5 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$5.50$2.29 to $6.17
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$525$282 to $1,023

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $525 · 10th to 90th $234 to $1,585Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $2 to $8
$10$100$1Kfacility $525professional $5

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$7.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$0.89
Median
$2.14
Typical High
$3.09
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$6.46
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$363.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$13.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.82
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$10.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$4.57
Typical High
$8.32

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 47th of 51

$5.89

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.