go back

Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

Utah 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?

$6,331

Typical total for the visit. In Utah, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,331 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,129 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,202$912 to $1,905
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,129$3,388 to $7,762

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $8,913Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $832 to $5,248
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $5,129professional $1,202

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
$1,202.26
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$5,248.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,949.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,659.59
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$9,772.37
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,089.30
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,862.09
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,317.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,513.56

Where Utah 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

Utah· 15th of 50

$6,331

$1,202 physician + $5,129 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.