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Cutting Multiple Toe Tendons Through The Skin

Louisiana 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 October 2026.

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

$447

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $447 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $398 from a physician practice, and about $1,380 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$398$347 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,380$977 to $3,162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $832 to $4,898Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $282 to $525
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,380professional $398

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
$446.68
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$501.19
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$5,011.87
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$512.86
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$549.54
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
$173.78
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$363.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$72.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$48.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$338.84
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 6.8 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.

Louisiana· 18th of 51

$447

AK $1,288UT $191

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.