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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Delaware 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?

$4,491

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,491 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,074 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$417$302 to $468
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,074$1,000 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $955 to $7,244Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $282 to $851
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,074professional $417

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$954.99
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$831.76
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37,153.52
Median
$37,153.52
Typical High
$37,153.52
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$660.69

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 12th of 50

$4,491

$417 physician + $4,074 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.