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Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated

Maryland 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?

$5.62

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5.62 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2.19 to $8.13.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $162 · 10th to 90th $55 to $661Professionalmedian $4 · 10th to 90th $2 to $9
$10$100$1Kfacility $162professional $4

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.95
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$8.13
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$2.19
Typical High
$3.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.82
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$8.51
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$11.75
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.91
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$10.96
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$10.72
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
$0.98
Median
$1.10
Typical High
$3.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.39
Median
$0.43
Typical High
$1.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1.45
Median
$1.62
Typical High
$5.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$0.28
Median
$0.66
Typical High
$1.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$0.20
Median
$0.68
Typical High
$0.71

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 42nd of 51

$5.62

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.