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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Georgia 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?

$1,699

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,699 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $39.81 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,660 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$25.70 to $52.48
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,660$339 to $4,571

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $44 to $5,888Professionalmedian $40 · 10th to 90th $19 to $74
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,660professional $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
$42.66
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$7,079.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$74.13
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$42.66
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$77.62
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$28.18
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$47.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$52.48
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$83.18
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$93.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$85.11

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 8th of 51

$1,699

$39.81 physician + $1,660 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.