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Removal Of Benign Skin Growths

Alabama rates for HCPCS 17110

This treatment destroys benign skin growths, such as common warts, using a method like freezing, scraping, an electric current, or a laser, leaving no growth to send to a lab afterward. It covers treatment of a smaller number of growths in one visit; a related service applies when many more growths are treated at once. It does not include treatment of skin tags or raised, blood-vessel-related skin growths, which are handled differently.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removal Of Benign Skin Growths cost?

$100

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $100 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $89.13 from a physician practice, and about $240 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$89.13$66.07 to $105
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$240$240 to $372

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $240 · 10th to 90th $151 to $1,096Professionalmedian $89 · 10th to 90th $60 to $117
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $240professional $89

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
$489.78
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$120.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$100.00
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$239.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$102.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$117.49
7 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
$32.36
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$20.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$79.43
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$15.85
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$10.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$74.13
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery + 31
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$87.10

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.9 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. 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· 43rd of 51

$100

AK $309KY $79.43

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.