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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 October 2026.

How much does Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft cost?

$2,933

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,933 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $891 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,042 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$891$372 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,042$1,230 to $7,586

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $813 to $12,882Professionalmedian $891 · 10th to 90th $141 to $1,259
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,042professional $891

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
$1,071.52
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$11,481.54
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,137.96
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,348.96
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,230.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,513.56
11 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
$457.09
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$831.76
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$331.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$229.09
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$229.09
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$229.09

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 43rd of 51

$2,933

$891 physician + $2,042 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.