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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Alaska rates for HCPCS 97598

An add-on procedure for cleaning and removing dead or damaged tissue from a larger wound, covering the area beyond what the base cleaning service already addresses. It is used when a wound is large enough that more than one section needs this tissue-removal treatment during the same visit.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement) cost?

$192

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $192 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $74.13 to the doctor who performs it, and $117 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$74.13$53.70 to $123
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$117$46.77 to $724

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $117 · 10th to 90th $30 to $5,888Professionalmedian $74 · 10th to 90th $25 to $145
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $117professional $74

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$123.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$147.91
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$93.33
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$154.88
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$29.51
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$177.83
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$93.33
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$138.04
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$117.49

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 71.0 times more in Connecticut than in California. 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

Alaska· 39th of 51

$192

$74.13 physician + $117 facility

CT $3,580CA $50.40

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.