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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Nebraska 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?

$7,943

Typical facility fee. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,943 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $4,365 to $11,482.

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 $7,943 · 10th to 90th $832 to $14,454Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $977 to $1,549
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,943professional $1,148

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$14,454.40
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$8,511.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$10,471.29
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$1,905.46
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,548.82
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$10,964.78

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 7th of 50

$7,943

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.