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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Louisiana 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?

$1,014

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,014 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $36.31 to the doctor who performs it, and $977 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$36.31$23.99 to $52.48
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$977$282 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $977 · 10th to 90th $55 to $3,467Professionalmedian $36 · 10th to 90th $19 to $62
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $977professional $36

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
$52.48
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$61.66
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$29.51
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$36.31
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$70.79
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$54.95

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 15th of 51

$1,014

$36.31 physician + $977 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.