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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Delaware 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?

$1,776

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,776 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,349 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$427$295 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,349$955 to $1,950

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $646 to $2,570Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $275 to $661
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,349professional $427

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). 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
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$676.08
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,570.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$645.65
7 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
$144.54
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$74.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$48.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$346.74
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$14,791.08
Median
$14,791.08
Typical High
$19,952.62

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 46th of 51

$1,776

$427 physician + $1,349 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.