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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Kansas 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?

$1,391

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,391 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $41.69 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,349 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$41.69$28.84 to $57.54
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,349$64.57 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $51 to $7,413Professionalmedian $42 · 10th to 90th $23 to $81
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,349professional $42

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
$54.95
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$100.00
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$35.48
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$60.26
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$60.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$57.54
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,905.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$79.43

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 11th of 51

$1,391

$41.69 physician + $1,349 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.