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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Nebraska 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?

$4,982

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,982 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,365 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$617$427 to $933
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,365$2,344 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $490 to $13,490Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $288 to $1,738
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,365professional $617

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
$2,344.23
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$14,454.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$2,630.27
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,122.02
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$2,344.23
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$3,467.37
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,348.96
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 8th of 50

$4,982

$617 physician + $4,365 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.