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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

Utah 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?

$3,046

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,046 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $26.30 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 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$26.30$21.38 to $41.69
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$251 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $13 to $4,571Professionalmedian $26 · 10th to 90th $11 to $60
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $3,020professional $26

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
$13.49
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,570.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$60.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$67.61
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$60.26
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$57.54
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$48.98
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$51.29
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$93.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$56.23

Where Utah 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

Utah· 3rd of 51

$3,046

$26.30 physician + $3,020 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.