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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts, 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,259$1,000 to $2,138
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,311$2,089 to $4,571

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $6,457Professionalmedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $851 to $2,754
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $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
$1,778.28
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,630.27
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$45,708.82
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$6,606.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,630.27
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$3,630.78
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,584.89
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$11,220.18
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,630.27
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$45,708.82
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,818.38

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 29th 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.