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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Montana 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?

$68.20

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $68.20 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $24.55 to the doctor who performs it, and $43.65 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$24.55$22.39 to $47.86
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$43.65$41.69 to $77.62

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $44 · 10th to 90th $19 to $83Professionalmedian $25 · 10th to 90th $10 to $78
$10$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $44professional $25

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
$134.90
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$66.07
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$75,857.76
Typical High
$91,201.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$70.79
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$85.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$60.26
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$79.43
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$79.43
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$75.86
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$85.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$52.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$70.79

Where Montana 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

Montana· 50th of 51

$68.20

$24.55 physician + $43.65 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.