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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Indiana 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?

$178

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $178 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $30.20 to the doctor who performs it, and $148 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$30.20$23.44 to $43.65
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$148$43.65 to $1,288

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $148 · 10th to 90th $24 to $4,898Professionalmedian $30 · 10th to 90th $20 to $54
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $148professional $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
$23.99
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$51.29
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$34.67
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$45.71
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$51.29
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$31.62
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$54.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$141.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$75.86
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$7,413.10
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$70.79

Where Indiana 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

Indiana· 40th of 51

$178

$30.20 physician + $148 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.