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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Iowa 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?

$4,372

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,372 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$741$490 to $1,230
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$1,122 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $603 to $7,586Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $339 to $2,042
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $741

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
$794.33
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$3,467.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,548.82
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,148.15
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$7,079.46
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,454.71
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,445.44
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$7,585.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,148.15
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 16th of 50

$4,372

$741 physician + $3,631 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.