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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

New Jersey 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?

$6,483

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,483 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,026 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$457$316 to $631
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,026$4,467 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $813 to $10,471Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $282 to $1,585
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,026professional $457

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
$588.84
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$2,630.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,202.26
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$812.83
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$8,317.64
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,000.00

Where New Jersey 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 Jersey· 2nd of 50

$6,483

$457 physician + $6,026 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.