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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Open partial release of tight palm tissue

CPT 26045the billing code this page is about

Open surgery on the palm to cut part of the thickened tissue band that pulls fingers into a bent position.

Hospitals typically charge $2,260 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 546 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,443. Most fall between $862 and $5,279 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
546
States
47
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 546 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
$660$973$2,260$4,499$7,359

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($660 vs $7,359).

How the prices are spread

$507 – $683: 35 hospitals$507$683 – $920: 68 hospitals$920 – $1,240: 68 hospitals$920$1,240 – $1,670: 53 hospitals$1,670 – $2,250: 21 hospitals$1,670$2,250 – $3,032: 52 hospitals$3,032 – $4,084: 66 hospitals$3,032$4,084 – $5,502: 53 hospitals$5,502 – $7,412: 51 hospitals$5,502$7,412 – $9,985: 37 hospitals$7,412median $2,260price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (504 of 546 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$507$68335
$683$92068
$920$1,24068
$1,240$1,67053
$1,670$2,25021
$2,250$3,03252
$3,032$4,08466
$4,084$5,50253
$5,502$7,41251
$7,412$9,98537

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,260
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $2,260.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,455 across 10 hospitalsWA$1,455Idaho: median $3,524 across 13 hospitalsID$3,524Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,411 across 15 hospitalsMN$1,411Illinois: median $882 across 13 hospitalsIL$882Wisconsin: median $2,506 across 26 hospitalsWI$2,506Michigan: median $1,089 across 30 hospitalsMI$1,089New York: median $3,840 across 30 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,409 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,409Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,155 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,155Indiana: median $566 across 11 hospitalsIN$566Ohio: median $1,490 across 15 hospitalsOH$1,490Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 23 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 46 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,395 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,395Missouri: median $954 across 13 hospitalsMO$954Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,800 across 13 hospitalsWV$3,800Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,185 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,185Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,519 across 12 hospitalsTN$3,519North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $771 across 13 hospitalsOK$771Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $6,653 across 10 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,787 across 26 hospitalsTX$2,787Florida: median $5,986 across 11 hospitalsFL$5,986
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,260. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$6,653+194%$3,224 – $6,653
Florida FL11$5,986+165%$1,490 – $5,986
California CA46$4,914+117%$1,373 – $9,985
New Jersey NJ30$4,330+92%$3,594 – $5,339
New York NY30$3,840+70%$893 – $4,084
West Virginia WV13$3,800+68%$1,272 – $6,204
Idaho ID13$3,524+56%$914 – $8,372
Tennessee TN12$3,519+56%$435 – $6,454
Texas TX26$2,787+23%$1,707 – $3,483
Wisconsin WI26$2,506+11%$2,506 – $5,751
Pennsylvania PA23$2,382+5%$311 – $5,038
Ohio OH15$1,490−34%$861 – $3,553
Washington WA10$1,455−36%$973 – $2,436
Minnesota MN15$1,411−38%$783 – $1,776
Oregon OR17$1,409−38%$892 – $1,587
Nebraska NE12$1,395−38%$1,027 – $2,001
Kansas KS12$1,185−48%$766 – $3,181
Iowa IA30$1,155−49%$814 – $1,307
Michigan MI30$1,089−52%$892 – $2,506
Missouri MO13$954−58%$680 – $2,808
Illinois IL13$882−61%$566 – $2,579
Oklahoma OK13$771−66%$771 – $6,615
Indiana IN11$566−75%$555 – $1,999
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not 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
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,260.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care394$3,046$892 – $5,921
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access145$1,230$800 – $2,506
Ownership
For-profit63$4,353$1,127 – $8,097
Government102$1,300$853 – $3,840
Non-profit381$2,330$849 – $4,914
System affiliation
Part of a system407$2,506$892 – $5,751
Independent139$1,451$841 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,179
Median cash price$2,260
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

289 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,708 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,128; most fall between $771 and $4,914.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 289 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
$566$830$1,708$4,462$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($566 vs $8,372).

Of the 323 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 289 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

546 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 606 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted546
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code606

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 PR Release Palm Contract,Open,Partial.

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, “Open partial release of tight palm tissue (CPT 26045) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26045-open-partial-release-of-tight-palm-tissue