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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Mississippi 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?

$1,585

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,585 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,148 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$437$316 to $676
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,148$692 to $2,239

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $407 to $3,715Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $275 to $912
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,148professional $437

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
$281.84
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$870.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$3,019.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$891.25
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$4,786.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$912.01

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 41st of 50

$1,585

$437 physician + $1,148 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.