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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Nevada 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?

$2,624

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,624 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 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$437$316 to $513
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$501 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $288 to $5,248Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $288 to $891
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $2,188professional $437

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
$288.40
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$4,786.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,737.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,888.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$562.34
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$776.25
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.63
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$776.25
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$707.95
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$467.74
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$724.44

Where Nevada 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

Nevada· 32nd of 50

$2,624

$437 physician + $2,188 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.