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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Florida 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?

$5,184

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,184 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,786 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$398$316 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,786$1,950 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $832 to $10,715Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $269 to $661
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,786professional $398

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
$741.31
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$660.69
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$11,220.18
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$831.76
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$9,772.37
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$478.63
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$776.25
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$489.78

Where Florida 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

Florida· 5th of 50

$5,184

$398 physician + $4,786 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.