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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Kansas 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?

$4,570

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,570 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,259 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,311 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,259$955 to $1,413
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,311$1,905 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $891 to $1,479
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,311professional $1,259

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
$1,949.84
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$1,905.46
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,819.70
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$6,918.31
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,479.11

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 30th of 50

$4,570

$1,259 physician + $3,311 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.