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Minor Release of a Tight Finger Tendon

New Jersey 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?

$6,301

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,301 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $275 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,026 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$275$251 to $479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,026$4,467 to $8,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $3,090 to $10,471Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $229 to $1,622
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,026professional $275

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
$3,090.30
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$831.76
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$416.87
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,317.64
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$630.96

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 2nd of 50

$6,301

$275 physician + $6,026 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.