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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Kansas 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?

$2,959

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,959 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $447 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,512 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$447$389 to $617
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,512$1,175 to $5,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $468 to $7,943Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $309 to $676
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,512professional $447

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
$575.44
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$724.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,187.76
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$776.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$3,801.89
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$4,168.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$707.95

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 27th of 50

$2,959

$447 physician + $2,512 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.