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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Alaska rates for HCPCS 11451

This procedure removes affected skin and underlying tissue from the armpit in a person with hidradenitis suppurativa, a chronic condition causing painful lumps and tunnels in sweat-gland-bearing skin, and then closes the wound using a complex repair technique. A complex closure is used when the wound is large, irregular, or otherwise cannot be closed with a simple stitched line, often requiring rearrangement of nearby tissue. It addresses more extensive disease than a basic excision and closure would.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision cost?

$2,828

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,828 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,349 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,479 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,349$851 to $1,738
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,479$468 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $309 to $9,772Professionalmedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $427 to $2,138
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,479professional $1,349

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,584.89
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$2,454.71
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,819.70
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,137.96
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$2,454.71
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,905.46

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 10.4 times more in Indiana 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

Alaska· 32nd of 50

$2,828

$1,349 physician + $1,479 facility

IN $9,518WV $916

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.