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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Michigan 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?

$5,921

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,921 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,898 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$1,023$871 to $1,318
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,898$4,074 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $1,288 to $6,918Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $851 to $1,905
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $1,023

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
$1,174.90
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$5,754.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,884.03
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,754.40
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,412.54

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 19th of 50

$5,921

$1,023 physician + $4,898 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.