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Drainage Of A Complex Infection After Surgery

Alabama rates for HCPCS 10180

This procedure surgically opens and drains an infection that has developed in a surgical wound after an operation, addressing a more complicated infection than a simple, single-pocket abscess. It may involve exploring and cleaning multiple areas of infected tissue near the original surgical site.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Drainage Of A Complex Infection After Surgery cost?

$1,836

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,836 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $214 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,622 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$214$170 to $245
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,622$1,096 to $2,344

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $617 to $3,631Professionalmedian $214 · 10th to 90th $151 to $288
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,622professional $214

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
$169.82
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$288.40
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,238.72
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$426.58
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$263.03

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 16.9 times more in Indiana than in Maryland. 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

Alabama· 41st of 51

$1,836

$214 physician + $1,622 facility

IN $8,914MD $526

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.