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Radical Removal Of A Larger Hand Tumor

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 26118

This is the more extensive removal of a soft-tissue growth from the hand or a finger, where the surgeon takes a wider margin of surrounding healthy tissue along with the growth because it is suspected or known to be aggressive. It applies to growths on the larger side, the sizable-growth tier of this procedure rather than the smallest lesions.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Radical Removal Of A Larger Hand Tumor cost?

$4,326

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,326 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,138 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 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$2,138$1,738 to $2,512
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$1,738 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $7,943Professionalmedian $2,138 · 10th to 90th $1,288 to $3,236
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,188professional $2,138

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
$4,365.16
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$17,378.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$11,748.98
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,511.89
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$6,760.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$7,762.47
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,162.28
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,290.87
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,884.03
2 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
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,230.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 3.6 times more in Wisconsin than in Kentucky. 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

Nebraska· 15th of 51

$4,326

$2,138 physician + $2,188 facility

WI $8,126KY $2,271

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.