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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Tennessee 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?

$4,323

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,323 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $692 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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$692$550 to $1,202
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$2,042 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $7,586Professionalmedian $692 · 10th to 90th $457 to $4,074
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $692

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
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$8,317.64
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$7,943.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$851.14
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,047.13
7 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$457.09
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 26th of 51

$4,323

$692 physician + $3,631 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.