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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Tennessee 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?

$3,087

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,087 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,630 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$347 to $617
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,630$1,660 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $741 to $7,079Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $282 to $1,023
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,630professional $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
$616.60
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$5,888.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$912.01
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$977.24
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$28,840.32
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,309.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$831.76

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 29th of 50

$3,087

$457 physician + $2,630 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.