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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Kentucky 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?

$4,280

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,280 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $891 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,388 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$891$813 to $1,122
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,388$1,995 to $6,761

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $977 to $8,511Professionalmedian $891 · 10th to 90th $724 to $1,514
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,388professional $891

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
$616.60
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,737.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,511.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,288.25
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,479.11
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,348.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$6,025.60
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 36th of 50

$4,280

$891 physician + $3,388 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.