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Removal Of Benign Skin Growths

Louisiana 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 July 2026.

How much does Removal Of Benign Skin Growths cost?

$117

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $117 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $100 from a physician practice, and about $891 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 6 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$100$79.43 to $126
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$891$288 to $2,089

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $891 · 10th to 90th $107 to $3,467Professionalmedian $100 · 10th to 90th $65 to $155
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $891professional $100

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
$107.15
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$69.18
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$125.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$416.87
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$125.89
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$95.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$169.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$154.88

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.2 times more in Alaska than in Alabama. 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· 38th of 51

$117

AK $224AL $100

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.