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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

New Mexico 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?

$5,741

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,741 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $955 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,786 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$955$813 to $1,318
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,786$1,380 to $10,233

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $14,454Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $776 to $2,188
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $4,786professional $955

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
$1,380.38
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,951.21
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$10,232.93
Typical High
$15,848.93
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$3,235.94
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,318.26
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,819.70
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,949.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,737.80

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 21st of 50

$5,741

$955 physician + $4,786 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.