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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Montana 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?

$1,115

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,115 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $513 to the doctor who performs it, and $603 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$513$427 to $724
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$603$537 to $794

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $603 · 10th to 90th $490 to $832Professionalmedian $513 · 10th to 90th $316 to $832
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $603professional $513

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,737.80
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$776.25
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$831.76
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$831.76
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$812.83
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$851.14

Where Montana 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

Montana· 48th of 50

$1,115

$513 physician + $603 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.