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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

New Jersey 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?

$8,057

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,057 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,079 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$977$871 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,079$6,026 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,079 · 10th to 90th $4,169 to $11,749Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $794 to $5,370
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $7,079professional $977

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
$4,168.69
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$6,760.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,884.03
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,548.82
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$16,595.87
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$14,454.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,238.72

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 7th of 50

$8,057

$977 physician + $7,079 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.