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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

New Hampshire 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?

$2,261

Typical total for the visit. In New Hampshire, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,261 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $562 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,698 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$562$417 to $741
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$1,514 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $9,550Professionalmedian $562 · 10th to 90th $324 to $1,000
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,698professional $562

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
$831.76
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$588.84
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,019.95
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,230.27
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,549.93
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$9,549.93
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,549.93
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$9,549.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,174.90
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$562.34

Where New Hampshire 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

New Hampshire· 34th of 50

$2,261

$562 physician + $1,698 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.