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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Colorado 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?

$6,623

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,623 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,166 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$339 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,166$3,236 to $10,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $537 to $12,882Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $295 to $776
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,166professional $457

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
$537.03
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$707.95
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,786.30
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$15,135.61
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$851.14
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$794.33
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$2,089.30
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,258.93
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$933.25

Where Colorado 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

Colorado· 5th of 50

$6,623

$457 physician + $6,166 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.