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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Opening a midfoot joint to drain it or remove a fragment

CPT 28020the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening of a joint between the small bones of the midfoot to look inside, drain infection, or take out a loose fragment or foreign object.

Hospitals typically charge $1,339 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 442 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,941. Most fall between $658 and $4,274 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
442
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 442 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$525$758$1,339$3,840$6,905

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($525 vs $6,905).

How the prices are spread

$382 – $527: 23 hospitals$382$527 – $727: 54 hospitals$727 – $1,004: 78 hospitals$727$1,004 – $1,385: 48 hospitals$1,385 – $1,912: 21 hospitals$1,385$1,912 – $2,638: 36 hospitals$2,638 – $3,640: 20 hospitals$2,638$3,640 – $5,023: 71 hospitals$5,023 – $6,931: 29 hospitals$5,023$6,931 – $9,565: 26 hospitals$6,931median $1,339price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (406 of 442 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$382$52723
$527$72754
$727$1,00478
$1,004$1,38548
$1,385$1,91221
$1,912$2,63836
$2,638$3,64020
$3,640$5,02371
$5,023$6,93129
$6,931$9,56526

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,339
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.40×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,339.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $2,790 across 13 hospitalsID$2,790Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,623 across 22 hospitalsMN$1,623Illinois: median $1,099 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,099Wisconsin: median $1,966 across 25 hospitalsWI$1,966Michigan: median $955 across 33 hospitalsMI$955New York: median $3,710 across 30 hospitalsNY$3,710Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $972 across 12 hospitalsOR$972Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,338 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,338Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,339 across 15 hospitalsOH$1,339Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $3,986 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,565 across 26 hospitalsCA$9,565Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $390 across 14 hospitalsWV$390Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $605 across 13 hospitalsOK$605Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,731 across 32 hospitalsTX$1,731Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,339. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$9,565+614%$1,145 – $9,565
New Jersey NJ24$3,986+198%$3,591 – $5,741
New York NY30$3,710+177%$658 – $3,840
Idaho ID13$2,790+108%$1,094 – $8,372
Pennsylvania PA21$2,382+78%$236 – $5,038
Wisconsin WI25$1,966+47%$1,966 – $4,274
Texas TX32$1,731+29%$994 – $3,832
Minnesota MN22$1,623+21%$829 – $2,131
Ohio OH15$1,3390%$710 – $1,414
Iowa IA19$1,3380%$1,060 – $1,338
Illinois IL15$1,099−18%$552 – $3,804
Oregon OR12$972−27%$972 – $3,640
Michigan MI33$955−29%$751 – $1,966
Oklahoma OK13$605−55%$605 – $4,879
West Virginia WV14$390−71%$378 – $3,566
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,339.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care327$1,792$671 – $4,646
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access106$994$636 – $2,131
Ownership
For-profit49$2,790$758 – $6,905
Government76$994$660 – $3,840
Non-profit317$1,339$630 – $4,274
System affiliation
Part of a system351$1,638$636 – $4,601
Independent91$983$678 – $2,550

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,720
Median cash price$1,339
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

246 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,112 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,502; most fall between $605 and $3,832.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 246 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$552$671$1,112$3,591$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($552 vs $8,372).

Of the 260 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 246 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

442 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 477 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted442
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code477

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrt W/Expl Drg/Rmvl Loose/FB Ntrtrsl/Tars Jt.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Opening a midfoot joint to drain it or remove a fragment (CPT 28020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28020-opening-a-midfoot-joint-to-drain-it-or-remove-a-fragment