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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Missouri 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?

$3,693

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,693 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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$457$339 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$1,778 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $479 to $7,413Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $295 to $1,479
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,236professional $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
$380.19
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$6,309.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,995.26
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,317.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$588.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$891.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$4,265.80
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$776.25

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 18th of 50

$3,693

$457 physician + $3,236 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.