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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Texas 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?

$4,074

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,074 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,820 to $8,511.

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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $661 to $14,791
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,074

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
$3,715.35
Typical High
$12,589.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$17,782.79
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$467.74
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
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20,892.96
Median
$33,884.42
Typical High
$33,884.42
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,071.52
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$10,471.29

Where Texas 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.

Texas· 26th of 50

$4,074

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.