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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 July 2026.

How much does Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft cost?

$2,940

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,940 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,318 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,622 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$1,318$1,047 to $1,622
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,622$1,445 to $1,698

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $9,120Professionalmedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $851 to $2,512
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $1,622professional $1,318

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$5,248.07
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$75,857.76
Typical High
$91,201.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,479.11
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,819.70
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,819.70
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,905.46
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,949.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,737.80

Where Montana 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

Montana· 44th of 50

$2,940

$1,318 physician + $1,622 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.