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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Drainage of an infected tendon sheath in a finger or palm

CPT 26020the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening and draining of pus or fluid from the tendon sheath of a finger or the palm.

Hospitals typically charge $2,498 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 904 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,669. Most fall between $947 and $5,130 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
904
States
49
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 904 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
$691$1,137$2,498$4,368$7,252

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($691 vs $7,252).

How the prices are spread

$539 – $717: 59 hospitals$539$717 – $955: 78 hospitals$955 – $1,271: 69 hospitals$955$1,271 – $1,691: 86 hospitals$1,691 – $2,251: 82 hospitals$1,691$2,251 – $2,997: 91 hospitals$2,997 – $3,989: 126 hospitals$2,997$3,989 – $5,309: 110 hospitals$5,309 – $7,067: 67 hospitals$5,309$7,067 – $9,406: 46 hospitals$7,067median $2,498price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (814 of 904 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$539$71759
$717$95578
$955$1,27169
$1,271$1,69186
$1,691$2,25182
$2,251$2,99791
$2,997$3,989126
$3,989$5,309110
$5,309$7,06767
$7,067$9,40646

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,498
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $2,498.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $625 across 11 hospitalsNH$625Washington: median $2,863 across 30 hospitalsWA$2,863Idaho: median $2,369 across 13 hospitalsID$2,369Montana: median $908 across 11 hospitalsMT$908North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,634 across 33 hospitalsMN$1,634Illinois: median $2,322 across 36 hospitalsIL$2,322Wisconsin: median $2,949 across 36 hospitalsWI$2,949Michigan: median $2,949 across 48 hospitalsMI$2,949New York: median $3,840 across 41 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $3,704 across 14 hospitalsMA$3,704Oregon: median $1,865 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,865Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,364 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,364Indiana: median $1,521 across 28 hospitalsIN$1,521Ohio: median $7,762 across 30 hospitalsOH$7,762Pennsylvania: median $3,572 across 41 hospitalsPA$3,572New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,687 across 69 hospitalsCA$3,687Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,546 across 16 hospitalsNE$1,546Missouri: median $1,721 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,721Kentucky: median $832 across 11 hospitalsKY$832West Virginia: median $2,052 across 21 hospitalsWV$2,052Virginia: median $5,278 across 29 hospitalsVA$5,278Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $750 across 13 hospitalsKS$750Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,007 across 15 hospitalsTN$1,007North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $5,272 across 17 hospitalsSC$5,272Oklahoma: median $904 across 19 hospitalsOK$904Louisiana: median $2,615 across 13 hospitalsLA$2,615Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,130 across 16 hospitalsGA$5,130Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,330 across 43 hospitalsTX$2,330Florida: median $3,362 across 25 hospitalsFL$3,362
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,498. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH30$7,762+211%$908 – $9,701
Virginia VA29$5,278+111%$2,215 – $5,671
South Carolina SC17$5,272+111%$3,536 – $5,272
Georgia GA16$5,130+105%$5,130 – $5,579
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+73%$3,594 – $5,339
New York NY41$3,840+54%$905 – $4,320
Massachusetts MA14$3,704+48%$1,966 – $5,434
California CA69$3,687+48%$1,672 – $7,694
Pennsylvania PA41$3,572+43%$428 – $4,170
Florida FL25$3,362+35%$866 – $4,637
Michigan MI48$2,949+18%$691 – $3,850
Wisconsin WI36$2,949+18%$1,566 – $3,998
Washington WA30$2,863+15%$1,072 – $6,876
Louisiana LA13$2,615+5%$1,397 – $5,299
Idaho ID13$2,369−5%$1,031 – $6,877
Texas TX43$2,330−7%$1,925 – $3,959
Illinois IL36$2,322−7%$1,006 – $3,556
West Virginia WV21$2,052−18%$592 – $3,800
Oregon OR35$1,865−25%$1,045 – $6,437
Missouri MO20$1,721−31%$675 – $3,305
Minnesota MN33$1,634−35%$1,103 – $2,395
Nebraska NE16$1,546−38%$1,326 – $2,074
Indiana IN28$1,521−39%$547 – $2,164
Iowa IA27$1,364−45%$1,058 – $2,103
Tennessee TN15$1,007−60%$688 – $1,445
Montana MT11$908−64%$633 – $1,721
Oklahoma OK19$904−64%$334 – $1,334
Kentucky KY11$832−67%$462 – $13,028
Kansas KS13$750−70%$506 – $1,206
New Hampshire NH11$625−75%$320 – $996
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,498.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care678$3,138$1,137 – $5,434
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access211$1,546$772 – $2,949
Ownership
For-profit72$2,615$1,032 – $7,998
Government151$1,676$915 – $3,840
Non-profit679$2,805$983 – $5,272
System affiliation
Part of a system721$2,949$1,045 – $5,278
Independent183$1,537$816 – $3,640

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,731
Median cash price$2,498
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

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

581 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,700 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,914; most fall between $1,009 and $5,579.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 581 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
$706$1,221$2,700$5,130$7,694

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($706 vs $7,694).

Of the 626 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 581 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

904 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 983 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted904
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code983

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 September 4, 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 Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Drainage Tendon Sheath Digit&/Palm Each.

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, “Drainage of an infected tendon sheath in a finger or palm (CPT 26020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26020-drainage-of-an-infected-tendon-sheath-in-a-finger-or-palm