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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Colorado 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?

$748

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $748 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $39.81 to the doctor who performs it, and $708 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$39.81$26.30 to $48.98
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$708$54.95 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $708 · 10th to 90th $29 to $6,026Professionalmedian $40 · 10th to 90th $22 to $66
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $708professional $40

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
$28.84
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$61.66
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$83.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$81.28
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$83.18
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$89.13
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$104.71
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$30.20
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$70.79

Where Colorado 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

Colorado· 18th of 51

$748

$39.81 physician + $708 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.