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Additional Bone Debridement

Alabama rates for HCPCS 11047

This is an additional-area treatment performed during wound care to remove damaged or dead bone tissue, used when the affected area is larger than a first, base-level amount already treated. Removing this tissue helps a wound heal by clearing away material that could otherwise slow healing or allow infection to take hold. It's performed and billed alongside the main bone-cleaning procedure for the same wound, not on its own.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Additional Bone Debridement cost?

$1,543

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,543 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $97.72 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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$97.72$91.20 to $115
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$550 to $1,479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $166 to $1,479Professionalmedian $98 · 10th to 90th $83 to $126
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,445professional $98

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$85.11
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$134.90
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery + 31
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$134.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$114.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$151.36

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 18.1 times more in New York 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

Alabama· 7th of 51

$1,543

$97.72 physician + $1,445 facility

NY $3,577KY $198

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.