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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Iowa 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?

$3,663

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,663 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,162 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$501$427 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,162$871 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $589 to $6,761Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $309 to $1,318
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,162professional $501

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
$724.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,380.38
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$977.24
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$5,248.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,090.30
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,258.93
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,258.93
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$977.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,122.02
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,023.29

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 19th of 50

$3,663

$501 physician + $3,162 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.