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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

South Carolina 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?

$9,365

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9,365 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $8,318 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$1,047$871 to $1,148
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$8,318$1,549 to $12,589

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,318 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $20,417Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $776 to $1,660
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $8,318professional $1,047

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
$1,071.52
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$22,908.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,659.59
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$12,302.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,949.84
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,995.26
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$12,589.25
Typical High
$21,877.62
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,513.56

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 3rd of 50

$9,365

$1,047 physician + $8,318 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.