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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

North Dakota 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?

$1,128

Typical total for the visit. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,128 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $661 to the doctor who performs it, and $468 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$661$468 to $891
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$468$309 to $525

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $468 · 10th to 90th $309 to $3,236Professionalmedian $661 · 10th to 90th $309 to $1,072
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $468professional $661

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
$2,511.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$851.14
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,258.93
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$912.01
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,047.13

Where North Dakota 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

North Dakota· 47th of 50

$1,128

$661 physician + $468 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.