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Cutting a Tight Tendon in the Forearm or Wrist

Georgia rates for HCPCS 25290

Through an incision, a tendon in the forearm or wrist that is too tight is deliberately divided to release the pull it is putting on the wrist or fingers. Releasing it lets a joint that was being held in a bent or twisted position straighten out. It covers a single tendon; if more than one is released, each is billed separately.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Cutting a Tight Tendon in the Forearm or Wrist cost?

$2,465

Typical total for the visit. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,465 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $646 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$646$537 to $912
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$955 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $603 to $6,166Professionalmedian $646 · 10th to 90th $447 to $1,230
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,820professional $646

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,202.26
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$380.19
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$5,754.40
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,174.90
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,174.90
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$7,585.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,202.26
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$251.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$74.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$50.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$346.74

Where Georgia sits

The same service costs 5.0 times more in Wisconsin than in Montana. 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

Georgia· 40th of 51

$2,465

$646 physician + $1,820 facility

WI $7,200MT $1,432

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.