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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Iowa 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 July 2026.

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

$4,467

Typical facility fee. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,467 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,122 to $7,079.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,248 · 10th to 90th $794 to $13,490Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $479 to $1,698
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,248professional $933

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
$794.33
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$7,943.28
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,698.24
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$17,782.79
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$1,905.46
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$19,054.61

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 45.7 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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.

Iowa· 21st of 50

$4,467

IN $22,387WV $490

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.