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Procedure price report · Incision and drainage, skin and subcutaneous tissue

Draining a simple finger abscess

CPT 26010the billing code this page is about

A cut is made in an infected finger to let out pus from a simple abscess.

Hospitals typically charge $350 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,513 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $369. Most fall between $203 and $622 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,513
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,513 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$142$221$350$554$858

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($142 vs $858).

How the prices are spread

$112 – $142: 129 hospitals$112$142 – $182: 152 hospitals$182 – $232: 280 hospitals$182$232 – $296: 351 hospitals$296 – $377: 309 hospitals$296$377 – $481: 353 hospitals$481 – $613: 308 hospitals$481$613 – $782: 181 hospitals$782 – $997: 134 hospitals$782$997 – $1,272: 68 hospitals$997median $350price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,265 of 2,513 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$112$142129
$142$182152
$182$232280
$232$296351
$296$377309
$377$481353
$481$613308
$613$782181
$782$997134
$997$1,27268

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$350
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.71×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $350.

Alaska: median $590 across 16 hospitalsAK$590Maine: median $211 across 22 hospitalsME$211Vermont: median $459 across 12 hospitalsVT$459New Hampshire: median $199 across 18 hospitalsNH$199Washington: median $386 across 68 hospitalsWA$386Idaho: median $414 across 22 hospitalsID$414Montana: median $288 across 26 hospitalsMT$288North Dakota: median $362 across 21 hospitalsND$362Minnesota: median $367 across 83 hospitalsMN$367Illinois: median $386 across 111 hospitalsIL$386Wisconsin: median $466 across 82 hospitalsWI$466Michigan: median $281 across 76 hospitalsMI$281New York: median $294 across 96 hospitalsNY$294Massachusetts: median $472 across 44 hospitalsMA$472Oregon: median $412 across 48 hospitalsOR$412Nevada: median $378 across 15 hospitalsNV$378Wyoming: median $430 across 13 hospitalsWY$430South Dakota: median $459 across 21 hospitalsSD$459Iowa: median $294 across 72 hospitalsIA$294Indiana: median $333 across 52 hospitalsIN$333Ohio: median $289 across 112 hospitalsOH$289Pennsylvania: median $298 across 114 hospitalsPA$298New Jersey: median $633 across 52 hospitalsNJ$633Connecticut: median $415 across 18 hospitalsCT$415Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $585 across 133 hospitalsCA$585Utah: median $345 across 28 hospitalsUT$345Colorado: median $432 across 52 hospitalsCO$432Nebraska: median $347 across 54 hospitalsNE$347Missouri: median $349 across 54 hospitalsMO$349Kentucky: median $278 across 46 hospitalsKY$278West Virginia: median $277 across 38 hospitalsWV$277Virginia: median $276 across 52 hospitalsVA$276Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $379 across 27 hospitalsAZ$379New Mexico: median $270 across 26 hospitalsNM$270Kansas: median $264 across 62 hospitalsKS$264Arkansas: median $221 across 33 hospitalsAR$221Tennessee: median $219 across 47 hospitalsTN$219North Carolina: median $314 across 58 hospitalsNC$314South Carolina: median $350 across 44 hospitalsSC$350Oklahoma: median $277 across 58 hospitalsOK$277Louisiana: median $190 across 46 hospitalsLA$190Mississippi: median $210 across 49 hospitalsMS$210Alabama: median $329 across 24 hospitalsAL$329Georgia: median $406 across 83 hospitalsGA$406Hawaii: median $530 across 15 hospitalsHI$530Texas: median $328 across 166 hospitalsTX$328Florida: median $735 across 87 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $350. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL87$735+110%$509 – $2,130
New Jersey NJ52$633+81%$220 – $3,986
Alaska AK16$590+68%$435 – $991
California CA133$585+67%$329 – $851
Hawaii HI15$530+52%$435 – $711
Massachusetts MA44$472+35%$230 – $697
Wisconsin WI82$466+33%$273 – $693
South Dakota SD21$459+31%$210 – $469
Vermont VT12$459+31%$174 – $828
Colorado CO52$432+23%$203 – $583
Wyoming WY13$430+23%$172 – $529
Connecticut CT18$415+18%$203 – $770
Idaho ID22$414+18%$262 – $562
Oregon OR48$412+18%$272 – $596
Georgia GA83$406+16%$200 – $795
Illinois IL111$386+10%$230 – $657
Washington WA68$386+10%$261 – $569
Arizona AZ27$379+8%$300 – $844
Nevada NV15$378+8%$218 – $578
Minnesota MN83$367+5%$216 – $549
North Dakota ND21$362+3%$206 – $528
South Carolina SC44$3500%$224 – $701
Missouri MO54$3490%$199 – $545
Nebraska NE54$347−1%$266 – $623
Utah UT28$345−1%$327 – $369
Indiana IN52$333−5%$215 – $543
Alabama AL24$329−6%$188 – $801
Texas TX166$328−6%$208 – $557
North Carolina NC58$314−10%$146 – $409
Pennsylvania PA114$298−15%$205 – $596
Iowa IA72$294−16%$158 – $483
New York NY96$294−16%$205 – $701
Ohio OH112$289−17%$204 – $594
Montana MT26$288−18%$158 – $373
Michigan MI76$281−20%$176 – $424
Kentucky KY46$278−20%$192 – $363
Oklahoma OK58$277−21%$182 – $453
West Virginia WV38$277−21%$196 – $390
Virginia VA52$276−21%$137 – $544
New Mexico NM26$270−23%$138 – $794
Kansas KS62$264−25%$139 – $408
Arkansas AR33$221−37%$133 – $442
Tennessee TN47$219−38%$131 – $359
Maine ME22$211−40%$174 – $323
Mississippi MS49$210−40%$95 – $358
New Hampshire NH18$199−43%$122 – $303
Louisiana LA46$190−46%$127 – $323
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $350.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,738$354$205 – $665
Children’s40$458$221 – $897
Critical access728$338$188 – $535
Ownership
For-profit277$409$215 – $956
Government490$329$196 – $569
Non-profit1,739$350$200 – $607
System affiliation
Part of a system2,001$361$208 – $634
Independent512$314$188 – $550

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$586
Median cash price$350
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,852 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $364 and the average of the middle 60% is $382; most fall between $208 and $624.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,852 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$148$229$364$562$853

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $853).

Of the 1,984 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,852 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,513 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,696 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,513
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded94
Hospitals that filed this code2,696

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Incision and drainage, skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Drainage Finger Abscess Simple.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Draining a simple finger abscess (CPT 26010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26010-draining-a-simple-finger-abscess