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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Tennessee 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?

$931

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $931 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $39.81 to the doctor who performs it, and $891 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$39.81$23.99 to $47.86
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$891$295 to $2,344

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $891 · 10th to 90th $47 to $3,236Professionalmedian $40 · 10th to 90th $23 to $68
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $891professional $40

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
$46.77
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$57.54
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$37.15
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$63.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$74.13
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$61.66

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 16th of 51

$931

$39.81 physician + $891 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.