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Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated

Louisiana 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 October 2026.

How much does Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated cost?

$6.76

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.76 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.25 from a physician practice, and about $100 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$5.25$2.29 to $7.08
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$100$17.38 to $427

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $100 · 10th to 90th $15 to $1,259Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $2 to $8
$10$100$1Kfacility $100professional $5

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.24
Median
$5.89
Typical High
$8.13
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$5.13
Typical High
$6.46
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$173.78
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.19
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$7.24
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$17.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.62
Median
$4.47
Typical High
$7.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.95
Median
$5.25
Typical High
$9.55
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$1.12
Median
$1.78
Typical High
$3.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.45
Median
$1.17
Typical High
$1.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1.70
Median
$2.63
Typical High
$5.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$0.34
Median
$0.52
Typical High
$1.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$0.22
Median
$0.59
Typical High
$0.69

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.0 times more in Alaska than in Nebraska. 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.

Louisiana· 23rd of 51

$6.76

AK $12.88NE $4.37

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.