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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Massachusetts 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?

$3,388

Typical facility fee. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,388 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,512 to $5,012.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $617 to $7,762
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,388

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
$1,949.84
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,370.32
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$33,884.42
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$3,630.78
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$11,220.18
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$33,884.42
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$15,135.61

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 31st of 50

$3,388

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.