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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Vermont 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?

$759

Typical physician fee. In Vermont, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $759 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $617 to $912.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $575 to $8,318Professionalmedian $724 · 10th to 90th $589 to $1,047
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,188professional $724

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$8,317.64
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$912.01
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$831.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,202.26

Where Vermont sits

The same service costs 6.9 times more in Alaska than in Utah. 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.

Vermont· 23rd of 51

$759

AK $2,089UT $302

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.