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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Colorado 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?

$5,028

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,028 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,571 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$316 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,571$1,585 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $457 to $9,333Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $309 to $851
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,571professional $457

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
$467.74
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$724.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$6,760.83
Typical High
$10,964.78
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$891.25
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$812.83
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,023.29
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,023.29
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$912.01

Where Colorado 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

Colorado· 6th of 50

$5,028

$457 physician + $4,571 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.