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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Idaho 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?

$1,609

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,609 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $562 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,047 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$562$427 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,047$525 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $407 to $5,248Professionalmedian $562 · 10th to 90th $316 to $912
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,047professional $562

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
$1,621.81
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$933.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$4,168.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$912.01
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$794.33
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$977.24
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$954.99
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$5,248.07
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$977.24
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$4,073.80
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$977.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$12,302.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$831.76

Where Idaho 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

Idaho· 40th of 50

$1,609

$562 physician + $1,047 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.