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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Alabama 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?

$1,289

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,289 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $30.20 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,259 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$30.20$22.91 to $53.70
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,259$646 to $1,622

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $372 to $2,042Professionalmedian $30 · 10th to 90th $13 to $55
$10$50$200$1Kfacility $1,259professional $30

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
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$54.95
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$28.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,238.72
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$64.57
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$58.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$64.57

Where Alabama 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

Alabama· 12th of 51

$1,289

$30.20 physician + $1,259 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.