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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Arkansas 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 October 2026.

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

$1,786

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,786 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $468 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,318 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$468$363 to $562
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,318$1,072 to $2,630

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $759 to $3,631Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $309 to $692
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,318professional $468

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
$354.81
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,041.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$512.86
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,630.78
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,412.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$812.83
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$524.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$724.44
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$51.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$363.08

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 5.3 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Arkansas· 44th of 51

$1,786

$468 physician + $1,318 facility

CO $6,438MT $1,226

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.