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Removal Of Benign Skin Growths

Minnesota 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?

$166

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $166 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $158 from a physician practice, and about $380 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$158$100 to $257
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$380$240 to $692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $380 · 10th to 90th $68 to $955Professionalmedian $158 · 10th to 90th $66 to $372
$10$50$200$1Kfacility $380professional $158

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
$51.29
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$562.34
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$85.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$371.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$489.78
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$912.01
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$467.74
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$537.03
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$371.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$354.81

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 4th of 51

$166

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.