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Additional Wound Cleaning (Debridement)

West Virginia 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?

$72.49

Typical total for the visit. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $72.49 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $28.84 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$28.84$22.91 to $43.65
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$43.65$25.12 to $43.65

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $44 · 10th to 90th $25 to $1,230Professionalmedian $29 · 10th to 90th $22 to $51
$10$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $44professional $29

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
$25.12
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$1,230.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$43.65
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$30.90
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$48.98
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$37.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$263.03
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,011.87
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$977.24
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$85.11

Where West Virginia 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

West Virginia· 48th of 51

$72.49

$28.84 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.