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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Montana 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?

$1,626

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,626 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $813 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$813$537 to $813
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$813$794 to $933

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $724 to $4,571Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $437 to $851
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $813professional $813

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$812.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$16,982.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$812.83
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$912.01
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$851.14
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$16,982.44
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$933.25

Where Montana 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

Montana· 51st of 51

$1,626

$813 physician + $813 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.