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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Georgia 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?

$1,925

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,925 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $513 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,413 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$513$407 to $724
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,413$851 to $2,188

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,413 · 10th to 90th $525 to $5,370Professionalmedian $513 · 10th to 90th $316 to $1,023
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,413professional $513

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
$309.03
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,318.26
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$478.63
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$5,754.40
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$912.01
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,905.46
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,288.25
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$691.83
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96
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
$141.25
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$51.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$363.08

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 39th of 51

$1,925

$513 physician + $1,413 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.