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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Minnesota 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?

$2,821

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,821 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$871$603 to $1,175
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$1,096 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $468 to $6,166Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $457 to $1,660
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,950professional $871

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
$309.03
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$724.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,677.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,995.26
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,630.78
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,862.09
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$2,238.72
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,344.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,479.11

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 29th of 50

$2,821

$871 physician + $1,950 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.