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Radical Removal Of Large Face Or Scalp Tumor

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 21016

This is the more extensive removal of a soft-tissue growth from the face or scalp, where the surgeon takes a wider margin of surrounding healthy tissue because the growth is suspected or known to be aggressive. It applies to larger growths, roughly three-quarters of an inch across or more.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Radical Removal Of Large Face Or Scalp Tumor cost?

$4,010

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,010 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,318 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 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$1,318$1,148 to $1,622
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$1,380 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $6,026Professionalmedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $977 to $1,738
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $1,318

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
$575.44
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,778.28
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$7,244.36
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$2,951.21
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,884.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,737.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,862.09
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
$954.99
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,258.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,174.90

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.4 times more in Wisconsin 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Louisiana· 17th of 51

$4,010

$1,318 physician + $2,692 facility

WI $7,760KY $2,277

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.