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Each Extra Precancerous Skin Spot Treated

Tennessee 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?

$7.59

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.59 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.75 from a physician practice, and about $245 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$5.75$2.69 to $8.91
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$245$120 to $813

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $245 · 10th to 90th $91 to $2,291Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $2 to $186
$10$100$1Kfacility $245professional $6

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
$891.25
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$10.96
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$5.89
Typical High
$8.32
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$281.84
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$8.71
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$5.13
Typical High
$10.00
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.09
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$10.47
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
$0.83
Median
$1.26
Typical High
$3.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.34
Median
$0.98
Typical High
$1.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$3.63
Typical High
$5.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$0.25
Median
$0.72
Typical High
$1.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$0.17
Median
$0.49
Typical High
$0.69

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 11th of 51

$7.59

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.