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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Montana 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?

$3,028

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,028 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,479 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$1,479$1,000 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$1,549 to $1,778

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $2,630Professionalmedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $85 to $1,549
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $1,479

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,905.46
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$7,585.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,778.28
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,659.59
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$7,585.78
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,513.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,659.59

Where Montana 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

Montana· 39th of 51

$3,028

$1,479 physician + $1,549 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.