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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

New Mexico 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?

$121

Typical total for the visit. In New Mexico, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $121 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $36.31 to the doctor who performs it, and $85.11 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$23.44 to $52.48
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$85.11$40.74 to $676

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $85 · 10th to 90th $30 to $1,318Professionalmedian $36 · 10th to 90th $18 to $123
$10$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $85professional $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
$30.20
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$2,089.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$123.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$933.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$57.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$51.29
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$104.71
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$85.11
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$60.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$81.28

Where New Mexico 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

New Mexico· 44th of 51

$121

$36.31 physician + $85.11 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.