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Chemical Treatment of Excess Tissue Around a Wound

Alaska rates for HCPCS 17250

This service applies a chemical agent to shrink or remove overgrown tissue that has formed around a wound, surgical opening, or drainage tract. It is used when healing tissue grows beyond the surface of the skin and needs to be controlled so the area can heal properly.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Chemical Treatment of Excess Tissue Around a Wound cost?

$151

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $151 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $132 from a physician practice, and about $589 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$132$89.13 to $224
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$589$178 to $794

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $589 · 10th to 90th $51 to $2,512Professionalmedian $132 · 10th to 90th $47 to $355
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $589professional $132

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
$239.88
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$5,888.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$257.04
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$398.11
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$281.84
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$354.81
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$398.11
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$257.04
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$204.17

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 2.5 times more in South Dakota than in Maine. 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.

Alaska· 4th of 51

$151

SD $170ME $67.61

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.