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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Massachusetts 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?

$2,354

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,354 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $575 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,778 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$575$380 to $851
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,778$447 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,778 · 10th to 90th $372 to $5,129Professionalmedian $575 · 10th to 90th $316 to $1,230
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $1,778professional $575

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
$446.68
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$912.01
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$28,840.32
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,202.26
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$3,467.37
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$851.14
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$9,772.37
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,202.26
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$28,840.32
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,258.93

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 33rd of 50

$2,354

$575 physician + $1,778 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.