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Pollicization: Making a Thumb From a Finger

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 26550

Surgery that moves one of the fingers, along with its tendons, nerves and blood vessels, into the position and angle of a thumb. It gives a working, opposable thumb to someone born without one or who has lost one, so the hand can pinch and grip.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Pollicization: Making a Thumb From a Finger cost?

$3,981

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,981 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,890 from a physician practice, and about $6,457 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$3,890$2,884 to $5,370
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,457$4,467 to $12,023

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $2,239 to $13,183Professionalmedian $3,890 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $6,166
$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,457professional $3,890

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
$1,659.59
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,630.27
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,365.16
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$22,908.68
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$6,025.60
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$15,848.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$7,079.46
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$12,589.25
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$6,456.54
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$7,762.47
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$6,165.95

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 4.2 times more in California than in Delaware. 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$3,981

CA $6,918DE $1,660

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.