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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Mississippi 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 October 2026.

How much does Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft cost?

$3,072

Typical total for the visit. In Mississippi, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,072 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,413 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,660 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$1,413$832 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,660$1,175 to $2,884

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $759 to $5,623Professionalmedian $1,413 · 10th to 90th $794 to $1,995
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,660professional $1,413

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$1,995.26
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$1,659.59
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,162.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$398.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Alaska than in Hawaii. 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

Mississippi· 38th of 51

$3,072

$1,413 physician + $1,660 facility

AK $8,167HI $2,648

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.