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Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated

Missouri 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?

$8.13

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8.13 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.59 from a physician practice, and about $1,445 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 7 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$7.59$5.62 to $9.77
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,445$85.11 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $6 to $4,898Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $2 to $25
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $8

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
$2.09
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.95
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$28.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$0.87
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$7.08
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.91
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$11.22
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.63
Median
$6.03
Typical High
$12.59
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$11.22
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.19
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$13.18
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.04
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$891.25
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$186.21
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.09
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$10.47

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 4th of 51

$8.13

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.