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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Arizona 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?

$2,071

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,071 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $29.51 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,042 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$29.51$22.91 to $46.77
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,042$209 to $4,571

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $44 to $5,623Professionalmedian $30 · 10th to 90th $11 to $87
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $2,042professional $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
$125.89
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,309.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$87.10
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$21.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$331.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$81.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$75.86
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$1,905.46
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$72.44

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 7th of 51

$2,071

$29.51 physician + $2,042 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.