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Thumb Tendon Transfer Reconstruction With Graft

West Virginia 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?

$1,889

Typical total for the visit. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,889 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $912 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$977$891 to $1,000
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$912$912 to $1,549

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $912 · 10th to 90th $912 to $1,738Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $851 to $1,318
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $912professional $977

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
$912.01
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,737.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,000.00
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,148.15
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,023.29
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
$1,318.26
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where West Virginia 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

West Virginia· 49th of 50

$1,889

$977 physician + $912 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.