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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Alaska rates for HCPCS 28024

A toe joint is opened surgically so the surgeon can look inside it, wash out and drain infection, or take out a loose fragment of bone or cartilage or a foreign object. It is most often done for a joint infection that will not settle with antibiotics alone.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore cost?

$1,653

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,653 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $676 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$977$417 to $1,660
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$676$447 to $1,514

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $676 · 10th to 90th $372 to $3,020Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $282 to $2,188
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $676professional $977

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
$1,000.00
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,479.11
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$2,187.76
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,238.72
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,570.40
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$2,187.76
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 8.6 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alaska· 39th of 50

$1,653

$977 physician + $676 facility

IN $7,168WV $834

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.