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Hand Tendon Rod Placement For Staged Reconstruction

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 26390

When a tendon in the hand or fingers is too damaged to repair directly, a surgeon may remove the injured tendon and place a smooth, flexible rod in its place to hold open a channel through the surrounding tissue. This is the first step of a two-stage reconstruction: the body forms a new lining around the rod over several weeks or months, and a real tendon graft is threaded through that channel in a later procedure. It is generally used for severe or long-standing tendon injuries where a one-step repair is not possible.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Hand Tendon Rod Placement For Staged Reconstruction cost?

$2,795

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,795 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,862 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$933$776 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,862$891 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $776 to $7,244Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $661 to $1,862
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $1,862professional $933

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
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,862.09
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,248.07
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$5,248.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$5,248.07
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,128.61
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,621.81
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$12,022.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 13.3 times more in Indiana than in Maryland. 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

Mississippi· 47th of 50

$2,795

$933 physician + $1,862 facility

IN $23,278MD $1,746

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.