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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Indiana 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?

$7,168

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,168 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,761 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$407$302 to $479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,761$4,677 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,761 · 10th to 90th $1,096 to $10,471Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $288 to $708
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,761professional $407

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
$478.63
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$724.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$10,471.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$588.84
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$724.44

Where Indiana 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

Indiana· 1st of 50

$7,168

$407 physician + $6,761 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.