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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Oregon 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?

$1,489

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,489 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $676 to the doctor who performs it, and $813 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$676$468 to $891
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$813$603 to $933

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $427 to $5,248Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $316 to $1,175
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $813professional $676

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
$794.33
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,288.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,202.26
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,174.90
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$954.99
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,096.48
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$912.01
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$977.24
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,148.15
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,760.83
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$12,022.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,122.02

Where Oregon 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

Oregon· 42nd of 50

$1,489

$676 physician + $813 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.