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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Georgia 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?

$3,569

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,569 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $479 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,090 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$479$355 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,090$1,549 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $646 to $7,079Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $302 to $832
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,090professional $479

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
$512.86
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$851.14
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$5,888.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$912.01
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$891.25

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 21st of 50

$3,569

$479 physician + $3,090 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.