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Additional Finger Joint Fusion With Bone Graft

Iowa rates for HCPCS 26863

This procedure fuses a joint in a finger using a piece of bone graft taken from the patient's own body to help the bones grow together permanently, treating pain, instability, or deformity in that joint. It is billed for each additional finger joint fused with a graft beyond the first one treated in the same session.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Additional Finger Joint Fusion With Bone Graft cost?

$4,070

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,070 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $355 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,715 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$355$229 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,715$933 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $363 to $7,943Professionalmedian $355 · 10th to 90th $204 to $871
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,715professional $355

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
$933.25
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$630.96
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$758.58
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,137.96
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,659.59
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$870.96
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$616.60
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$467.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$630.96
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$467.74

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 27.3 times more in California 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

Iowa· 16th of 49

$4,070

$355 physician + $3,715 facility

CA $7,702MD $282

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.