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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Alabama 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?

$2,853

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,853 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,455 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$398$316 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,455$1,259 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $776 to $3,890Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $282 to $562
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,455professional $398

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$562.34
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$3,890.45
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$851.14
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
$263.03
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$512.86

Where Alabama 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

Alabama· 31st of 50

$2,853

$398 physician + $2,455 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.