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Finger Joint Replacement With an Implant

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 26536

Replaces a damaged joint within a finger with an artificial one — commonly a flexible silicone spacer — after the worn joint surfaces have been removed. It is used when arthritis or injury has left the joint painful, deformed, or stiff. The aim is a finger that bends usefully again and hurts far less.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Finger Joint Replacement With an Implant cost?

$7,605

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,605 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,148 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,457 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 55 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,148$851 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,457$2,951 to $11,482

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $16,982Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $724 to $2,754
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $6,457professional $1,148

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
$1,000.00
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$12,589.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$22,908.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$8,912.51
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$123.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$16,595.87

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 6.7 times more in Wisconsin 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

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WI $16,233MD $2,440

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.