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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Illinois 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?

$4,212

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,212 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,122 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,090 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$1,122$955 to $1,479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,090$2,239 to $4,786

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $7,762Professionalmedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $832 to $1,738
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $3,090professional $1,122

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
$831.76
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$954.99
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$12,302.69
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$3,715.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,621.81
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$3,388.44
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,288.25
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$8,128.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,778.28
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
$426.58
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$478.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$190.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$707.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$95.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$660.69

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 19th of 51

$4,212

$1,122 physician + $3,090 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.