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Opening a Toe Joint to Drain or Explore

Vermont 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?

$479

Typical physician fee. In Vermont, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $479 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $380 to $550.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $363 to $631
$200$500$1Kprofessional $479

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$831.76
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,096.48

Where Vermont sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in Hawaii than in Maryland. 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.

Vermont· 31st of 51

$479

HI $1,820MD $407

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.