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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Michigan 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?

$3,341

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,341 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$457$339 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$1,660 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $575 to $5,129Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $288 to $692
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,884professional $457

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
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$660.69
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$691.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$630.96

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 24th of 50

$3,341

$457 physician + $2,884 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.