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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Surgery to relieve pressure in a crushed hand

CPT 26035the billing code this page is about

Open surgery on the hand or fingers to release tight tissue and restore blood flow after a crush injury.

Hospitals typically charge $2,714 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 346 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,753. Most fall between $1,195 and $4,499 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
346
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 346 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
$958$1,382$2,714$4,084$6,412

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($958 vs $6,412).

How the prices are spread

$656 – $829: 11 hospitals$656$829 – $1,049: 11 hospitals$1,049 – $1,327: 40 hospitals$1,049$1,327 – $1,679: 37 hospitals$1,679 – $2,123: 28 hospitals$1,679$2,123 – $2,686: 28 hospitals$2,686 – $3,398: 30 hospitals$2,686$3,398 – $4,298: 69 hospitals$4,298 – $5,437: 18 hospitals$4,298$5,437 – $6,877: 40 hospitals$5,437median $2,714price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (312 of 346 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$656$82911
$829$1,04911
$1,049$1,32740
$1,327$1,67937
$1,679$2,12328
$2,123$2,68628
$2,686$3,39830
$3,398$4,29869
$4,298$5,43718
$5,437$6,87740

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,714
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.81×

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 $2,714.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,439 across 13 hospitalsWA$1,439Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,376 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,376Wisconsin: median $4,272 across 12 hospitalsWI$4,272Michigan: median $1,802 across 14 hospitalsMI$1,802New York: median $3,840 across 21 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,862 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,862Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,107 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,107Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,956 across 14 hospitalsOH$2,956Pennsylvania: median $660 across 18 hospitalsPA$660New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,412 across 36 hospitalsCA$6,412Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,173 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,173Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,444 across 20 hospitalsTX$2,444Florida: median $3,871 across 19 hospitalsFL$3,871
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,714. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA36$6,412+136%$3,910 – $6,412
Wisconsin WI12$4,272+57%$4,272 – $7,151
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+47%$3,591 – $5,419
Florida FL19$3,871+43%$3,871 – $5,571
New York NY21$3,840+41%$3,840 – $4,084
Ohio OH14$2,956+9%$1,374 – $3,553
Oregon OR11$2,862+5%$1,606 – $2,862
Texas TX20$2,444−10%$2,444 – $2,444
Iowa IA17$2,107−22%$2,107 – $2,410
Michigan MI14$1,802−34%$1,168 – $4,499
Washington WA13$1,439−47%$1,187 – $1,802
Illinois IL11$1,376−49%$1,122 – $2,107
Oklahoma OK14$1,173−57%$1,173 – $6,615
Pennsylvania PA18$660−76%$538 – $5,486
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,714.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care275$2,956$1,215 – $4,675
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$1,802$1,122 – $4,272
Ownership
For-profit37$2,205$1,122 – $3,871
Government56$1,788$1,233 – $3,840
Non-profit253$2,956$1,232 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system285$2,913$1,187 – $4,881
Independent61$1,804$1,215 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,207
Median cash price$2,714
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,209 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,433; most fall between $1,173 and $5,331.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 214 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
$1,003$1,232$2,209$3,910$6,412

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,003 vs $6,412).

Of the 234 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 214 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

346 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 383 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted346
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code383

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 PR Decompress Fingers/Hand,Inject Inj.

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, “Surgery to relieve pressure in a crushed hand (CPT 26035) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26035-surgery-to-relieve-pressure-in-a-crushed-hand