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Minor Release of a Tight Finger Tendon

Minnesota 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?

$2,566

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,566 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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$617$457 to $871
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$741 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $407 to $6,166Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $324 to $1,000
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,950professional $617

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
$263.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$1,949.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$407.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$954.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,570.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,148.15
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,041.74
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,047.13
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$3,890.45
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$977.24

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 28th of 50

$2,566

$617 physician + $1,950 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.