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Knee Cartilage Repair With Your Own Bone Plugs

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 29866

A knee arthroscopy procedure that repairs a damaged patch of joint cartilage by transplanting small plugs of healthy bone and cartilage taken from a less weight-bearing area of the patient's own knee. The plugs are harvested and inserted through small camera-guided incisions in the same operation, filling the damaged area with living tissue rather than scar tissue. It is used for a focal area of cartilage damage rather than widespread arthritis.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Knee Cartilage Repair With Your Own Bone Plugs cost?

$1,259

Typical negotiated rate. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,259 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,175 from a physician practice, and about $1,995 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,175$955 to $2,042
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,995$955 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,995 · 10th to 90th $759 to $9,333Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $851 to $2,291
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $1,995professional $1,175

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
$707.95
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,290.87
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,630.78
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,467.37
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,137.96
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$13,182.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,398.83

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 8.7 times more in California than in Delaware. 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.

Mississippi· 40th of 51

$1,259

CA $9,120DE $1,047

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.