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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Minnesota 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?

$6,505

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,505 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,239 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,266 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$2,239$1,622 to $3,090
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,266$2,630 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,266 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $10,965Professionalmedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $1,148 to $3,467
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,266professional $2,239

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
$954.99
Typical High
$4,677.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$7,585.78
Typical High
$19,054.61
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$3,388.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$9,120.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$4,073.80
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,244.36
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,715.35
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$6,918.31
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,388.44

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 12th of 50

$6,505

$2,239 physician + $4,266 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.