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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Colorado 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?

$7,454

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,454 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,288 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,166 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,288$1,047 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,166$3,020 to $8,710

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $1,820 to $12,589Professionalmedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $933 to $2,138
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,166professional $1,288

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
$1,778.28
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,148.15
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$13,182.57
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,584.89
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,041.74
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,862.09
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,754.23
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$11,220.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,862.09
6 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$707.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$93.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$660.69

Where Colorado 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

Colorado· 4th of 51

$7,454

$1,288 physician + $6,166 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.