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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 July 2026.

How much does Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft cost?

$4,476

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,476 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,570 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,905 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$2,570$871 to $3,981
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,905$1,230 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,023 to $9,772Professionalmedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $813 to $4,898
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,905professional $2,570

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. 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
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$4,466.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,884.03
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$4,897.79
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$5,248.07
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$5,248.07
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$4,897.79
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,786.30
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$5,011.87

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 6.1 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

Alaska· 33rd of 50

$4,476

$2,570 physician + $1,905 facility

IN $11,188MD $1,828

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.