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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Pennsylvania 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?

$5,012

Typical facility fee. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,012 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $2,570 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,012 · 10th to 90th $1,023 to $8,511
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,012

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
$977.24
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$8,511.38
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$57,543.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$812.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$81.28
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33,113.11
Median
$33,113.11
Typical High
$33,113.11
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$8,511.38
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$4,168.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$21,379.62

Where Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania· 19th of 50

$5,012

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.