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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Minnesota 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?

$3,020

Typical facility fee. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,020 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,413 to $7,244.

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 $3,020 · 10th to 90th $794 to $21,380
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $3,020

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
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$3,630.78
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$13,182.57
Typical High
$32,359.37
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,011.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$81.28
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,890.45
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$6,918.31
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$131.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$18,620.87

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 36th of 50

$3,020

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.