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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Utah 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?

$3,663

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,663 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,162 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$501$389 to $776
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,162$2,455 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $427 to $4,898Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $288 to $1,549
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,162professional $501

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
$426.58
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$758.58
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$870.96
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,786.30
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$977.24
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$851.14
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$676.08

Where Utah 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

Utah· 20th of 50

$3,663

$501 physician + $3,162 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.