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Minor Release of a Tight Finger Tendon

Alaska rates for HCPCS 26060

This procedure releases a tight or contracted tendon in a finger through a small puncture in the skin, without a full open incision. It is used to relieve a finger that is stuck bent or straight because a tendon is pulling it out of a normal range of motion.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Minor Release of a Tight Finger Tendon cost?

$1,257

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,257 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $708 to the doctor who performs it, and $550 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$708$245 to $1,096
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$550$316 to $1,230

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $550 · 10th to 90th $282 to $6,607Professionalmedian $708 · 10th to 90th $245 to $1,413
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $550professional $708

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$831.76
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,348.96
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,412.54
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,479.11
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,348.96
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$831.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,348.96

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 12.9 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

Alaska· 42nd of 50

$1,257

$708 physician + $550 facility

IN $6,876WV $534

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.