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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Missouri 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?

$413

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $413 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $41.69 to the doctor who performs it, and $372 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$41.69$25.12 to $63.10
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$372$97.72 to $1,905

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $372 · 10th to 90th $40 to $4,898Professionalmedian $42 · 10th to 90th $17 to $174
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $372professional $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
$43.65
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$707.95
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$34.67
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$81.28
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$61.66
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$158.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$70.79
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$933.25
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$51.29

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 30th of 51

$413

$41.69 physician + $372 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.