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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Arizona rates for HCPCS 20924

Takes a spare tendon from elsewhere in the body — commonly a wrist tendon or one of the toe tendons — to use as graft material replacing or bridging a damaged tendon somewhere else. Harvesting the graft is the work covered here; the repair it is used for is separate. The tendons chosen are ones the body can manage without.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site cost?

$3,441

Typical total for the visit. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,441 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,951 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$490$468 to $676
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,951$1,318 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,951 · 10th to 90th $776 to $7,244Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $437 to $3,715
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,951professional $490

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$512.86
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$912.01
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$758.58
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$19,952.62
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$741.31
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$93.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$346.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$46.77
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$323.59

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 7.5 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Arizona· 34th of 51

$3,441

$490 physician + $2,951 facility

CO $12,189MT $1,626

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.