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Complex Repair After Underarm Sweat Gland Excision

Virginia 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?

$3,267

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,267 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $513 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,754 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$513$363 to $617
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,754$525 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $347 to $8,318Professionalmedian $513 · 10th to 90th $316 to $1,023
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,754professional $513

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
$549.54
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,096.48
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,888.44
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$7,413.10
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$870.96
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$5,495.41
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$831.76
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$812.83
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$660.69
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$794.33
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$977.24
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$8,912.51
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$776.25

Where Virginia 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

Virginia· 28th of 50

$3,267

$513 physician + $2,754 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.