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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Minnesota 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?

$208

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $208 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $60.26 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$60.26$39.81 to $95.50
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$148$69.18 to $200

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $148 · 10th to 90th $29 to $372Professionalmedian $60 · 10th to 90th $26 to $126
$10$50$200$1Kfacility $148professional $60

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
$25.70
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$102.33
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$120.23
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$190.55
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$199.53
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$154.88
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$316.23
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$173.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$117.49

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 37th of 51

$208

$60.26 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.