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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Utah 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?

$3,692

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,692 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $380 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,311 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$380$120 to $479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,311$1,000 to $5,129

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $331 to $6,918Professionalmedian $380 · 10th to 90th $32 to $589
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $3,311professional $380

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
$331.13
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,786.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$676.08
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$501.19
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$8,511.38
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$660.69
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$467.74
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$724.44
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
$162.18
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$74.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$50.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$346.74
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$12,882.50

Where Utah 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

Utah· 9th of 51

$3,692

$380 physician + $3,311 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.