go back

Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Arizona 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?

$3,447

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,447 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$427$316 to $537
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$1,738 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $490 to $6,761Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $288 to $851
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,020professional $427

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
$1,905.46
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$776.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$3,630.78
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$724.44

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 22nd of 50

$3,447

$427 physician + $3,020 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.