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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Alaska rates for HCPCS 26492

This is a hand surgery that restores the thumb's ability to swing across the palm and touch the fingertips, a movement often lost after certain nerve injuries. A tendon is rerouted to take over this motion, using a section of grafted tissue as part of the reconstruction.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft cost?

$8,167

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,167 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,802 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,365 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$3,802$2,291 to $3,981
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,365$3,548 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $2,570 to $12,023Professionalmedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $977 to $4,571
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,365professional $3,802

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). 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
None
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$12,882.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$12,882.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,884.03
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$6,309.57
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$5,248.07
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$5,248.07
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$3,801.89
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$12,882.50
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$5,011.87

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Alaska than in Hawaii. 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· 1st of 51

$8,167

$3,802 physician + $4,365 facility

AK $8,167HI $2,648

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.