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Cutting Multiple Toe Tendons Through The Skin

Iowa rates for HCPCS 28011

This procedure releases more than one tight or contracted tendon in a toe by cutting it through a small puncture in the skin, without making a larger open incision. It is used to help straighten a toe that has become bent or clawed due to a tight tendon.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Cutting Multiple Toe Tendons Through The Skin cost?

$479

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $479 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $447 from a physician practice, and about $3,715 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$447$324 to $676
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,715$741 to $5,888

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $501 to $7,943Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $282 to $1,585
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,715professional $447

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
$501.19
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$954.99
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$831.76
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$5,248.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,398.83
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$870.96
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$870.96
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$676.08
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$851.14
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$691.83

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 7.9 times more in Hawaii 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.

Iowa· 12th of 51

$479

HI $2,399WV $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.