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Newborn Circumcision By Surgical Excision

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 54160

Removes the foreskin of a newborn baby boy by cutting it away with instruments, rather than by crushing it with a clamp or plastic device. It is done in the first weeks of life with numbing medicine, and the edge is closed or dressed. Healing usually takes a week or two.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Newborn Circumcision By Surgical Excision cost?

$316

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $316 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $224 from a physician practice, and about $1,549 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 5 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$224$195 to $302
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,549$891 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $398 to $4,365Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $148 to $339
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $224

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
$295.12
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$338.84
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,888.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$371.54
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$371.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$371.54

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 8.7 times more in Hawaii than in Delaware. 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· 14th of 51

$316

HI $1,862DE $214

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.