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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Rhode Island 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?

$3,778

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,778 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,148 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,630 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,148$1,096 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,630$1,413 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $813 to $7,244Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $813 to $1,698
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,630professional $1,148

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
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$169.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$234.42
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$112.20
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$7,762.47
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,698.24
3 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33

Where Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island· 25th of 51

$3,778

$1,148 physician + $2,630 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.