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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Rhode Island 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?

$1,230

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,230 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $27.54 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,202 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$27.54$19.50 to $43.65
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,202$646 to $1,660

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $355 to $3,802Professionalmedian $28 · 10th to 90th $10 to $59
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,202professional $28

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$31.62
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$51.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$46.77
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$95.50
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$72.44

Where Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island· 13th of 51

$1,230

$27.54 physician + $1,202 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.