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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 July 2026.

How much does Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft cost?

$3,368

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,368 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,230 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,138 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$1,230$955 to $1,622
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,138$1,514 to $5,129

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,138 · 10th to 90th $955 to $9,333Professionalmedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $813 to $2,239
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,138professional $1,230

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
$954.99
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,238.72
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$20,417.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,949.84
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,801.89
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,288.25
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,905.46

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 41st of 50

$3,368

$1,230 physician + $2,138 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.