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Removal Of A Deep Soft Tissue Growth, Face Or Scalp

Arizona rates for HCPCS 21014

A growth located beneath the muscle layer of the face or scalp, deeper than the fatty tissue just under the skin, is surgically removed. This applies to a larger growth within that deeper-tissue group, compared to a smaller growth handled with a related, similar procedure.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Removal Of A Deep Soft Tissue Growth, Face Or Scalp cost?

$1,755

Typical total for the visit. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,755 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $525 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,230 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$525$479 to $661
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,230$631 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $417 to $3,802Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $468 to $3,890
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,230professional $525

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
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$549.54
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,570.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$794.33
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$3,235.94
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$776.25
2 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
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 4.3 times more in Colorado than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Arizona· 39th of 51

$1,755

$525 physician + $1,230 facility

CO $5,853WV $1,353

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.