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Harvesting a Tendon Graft From Another Site

Wisconsin 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?

$12,303

Typical facility fee. In Wisconsin, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12,303 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,622 to $16,596.

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 10 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $13,804 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $22,909Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $759 to $1,660
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $13,804professional $1,175

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
$489.78
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$14,454.40
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10,715.19
Median
$15,135.61
Typical High
$26,302.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,754.23
DeanCare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$6,760.83
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$12,302.69
Network Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$9,120.11
Prevea360
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,071.52
Quartz
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,659.59
Quartz
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$14,454.40
Typical High
$20,892.96
Quartz
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,089.30
Security Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$10,232.93
Typical High
$13,182.57

Where Wisconsin 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.

Wisconsin· 4th of 50

$12,303

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.