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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Delaware 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?

$203

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $203 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $25.12 to the doctor who performs it, and $178 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$25.12$21.38 to $44.67
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$178$178 to $209

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $178 · 10th to 90th $170 to $3,236Professionalmedian $25 · 10th to 90th $9 to $63
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $178professional $25

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
$169.82
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$3,235.94
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$63.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$63.10
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$97.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$501.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$83.18

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 38th of 51

$203

$25.12 physician + $178 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.