go back

Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Michigan 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?

$535

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $535 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $33.88 to the doctor who performs it, and $501 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$33.88$24.55 to $51.29
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$501$129 to $2,884

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $501 · 10th to 90th $51 to $4,898Professionalmedian $34 · 10th to 90th $18 to $63
$10$100$1Kfacility $501professional $34

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
$51.29
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$60.26
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$41.69
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$81.28
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.55
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$35.48
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$40.74
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$54.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$112.20
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$67.61
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$190.55
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$69.18

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 24th of 51

$535

$33.88 physician + $501 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.