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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

New York 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?

$5,921

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,921 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,898 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,023$871 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,898$3,090 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $11,482Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $759 to $2,692
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $1,023

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
$1,148.15
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$10,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,454.71
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$12,882.50
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,187.76
CDPHP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$8,912.51
CDPHP
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$4,073.80
Emblem Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,548.13
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,137.96
Excellus BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
Excellus BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,949.84
MVP Health Care
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$50,118.72
Typical High
$75,857.76
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$4,073.80
Univera
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$4,265.80
Univera
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,570.40

Where New York 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 York· 18th of 50

$5,921

$1,023 physician + $4,898 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.