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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Arkansas 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?

$820

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $820 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $25.70 to the doctor who performs it, and $794 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$25.70$18.62 to $44.67
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$794$69.18 to $1,175

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $794 · 10th to 90th $28 to $1,820Professionalmedian $26 · 10th to 90th $10 to $71
$10$50$200$1Kfacility $794professional $26

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
$24.55
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$70.79
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$57.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$58.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$154.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$54.95
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$66.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$60.26

Where Arkansas 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

Arkansas· 17th of 51

$820

$25.70 physician + $794 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.