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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Opening a finger joint to drain or remove a loose body

CPT 26080the billing code this page is about

Surgical opening of one interphalangeal joint of a finger to explore it, drain fluid, or remove loose or foreign material; billed per joint.

Hospitals typically charge $1,749 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 938 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,799. Most fall between $770 and $3,343 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
938
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 938 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
$586$886$1,749$3,035$4,785

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $4,785).

How the prices are spread

$424 – $556: 41 hospitals$424$556 – $728: 70 hospitals$728 – $954: 97 hospitals$728$954 – $1,249: 89 hospitals$1,249 – $1,636: 109 hospitals$1,249$1,636 – $2,143: 141 hospitals$2,143 – $2,808: 101 hospitals$2,143$2,808 – $3,678: 86 hospitals$3,678 – $4,818: 76 hospitals$3,678$4,818 – $6,311: 39 hospitals$4,818median $1,749price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (849 of 938 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$424$55641
$556$72870
$728$95497
$954$1,24989
$1,249$1,636109
$1,636$2,143141
$2,143$2,808101
$2,808$3,67886
$3,678$4,81876
$4,818$6,31139

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,749
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $1,749.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,170 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,170New Hampshire: median $863 across 11 hospitalsNH$863Washington: median $2,270 across 34 hospitalsWA$2,270Idaho: median $1,765 across 15 hospitalsID$1,765Montana: median $1,169 across 15 hospitalsMT$1,169North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,297 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,297Illinois: median $1,121 across 28 hospitalsIL$1,121Wisconsin: median $2,124 across 35 hospitalsWI$2,124Michigan: median $770 across 36 hospitalsMI$770New York: median $1,894 across 46 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $3,323 across 12 hospitalsMA$3,323Oregon: median $1,344 across 33 hospitalsOR$1,344Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $968 across 27 hospitalsIA$968Indiana: median $741 across 16 hospitalsIN$741Ohio: median $4,785 across 34 hospitalsOH$4,785Pennsylvania: median $1,750 across 45 hospitalsPA$1,750New Jersey: median $2,080 across 34 hospitalsNJ$2,080Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,543 across 74 hospitalsCA$1,543Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,043 across 13 hospitalsCO$1,043Nebraska: median $1,327 across 18 hospitalsNE$1,327Missouri: median $1,343 across 23 hospitalsMO$1,343Kentucky: median $619 across 13 hospitalsKY$619West Virginia: median $426 across 14 hospitalsWV$426Virginia: median $1,508 across 35 hospitalsVA$1,508Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,973 across 10 hospitalsAZ$1,973New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $777 across 26 hospitalsKS$777Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $723 across 13 hospitalsTN$723North Carolina: median $2,782 across 18 hospitalsNC$2,782South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $838 across 15 hospitalsOK$838Louisiana: median $1,528 across 12 hospitalsLA$1,528Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $1,564 across 13 hospitalsAL$1,564Georgia: median $8,241 across 13 hospitalsGA$8,241Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,948 across 52 hospitalsTX$1,948Florida: median $5,376 across 22 hospitalsFL$5,376
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,749. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA13$8,241+371%$2,785 – $8,241
Florida FL22$5,376+207%$2,175 – $5,571
Ohio OH34$4,785+174%$1,162 – $5,563
Massachusetts MA12$3,323+90%$1,754 – $6,709
North Carolina NC18$2,782+59%$2,152 – $2,954
Washington WA34$2,270+30%$803 – $3,560
Wisconsin WI35$2,124+21%$1,592 – $3,341
New Jersey NJ34$2,080+19%$1,749 – $5,383
Arizona AZ10$1,973+13%$626 – $7,895
Texas TX52$1,948+11%$1,423 – $2,706
New York NY46$1,894+8%$1,405 – $3,463
Idaho ID15$1,765+1%$745 – $4,436
Pennsylvania PA45$1,7500%$309 – $3,274
Alabama AL13$1,564−11%$938 – $6,125
California CA74$1,543−12%$1,200 – $3,073
Louisiana LA12$1,528−13%$658 – $2,521
Virginia VA35$1,508−14%$723 – $4,138
Oregon OR33$1,344−23%$766 – $4,035
Missouri MO23$1,343−23%$596 – $2,615
Nebraska NE18$1,327−24%$818 – $2,045
Minnesota MN37$1,297−26%$878 – $2,140
Vermont VT10$1,170−33%$681 – $2,449
Montana MT15$1,169−33%$591 – $1,827
Illinois IL28$1,121−36%$716 – $3,456
Colorado CO13$1,043−40%$715 – $2,741
Iowa IA27$968−45%$743 – $968
New Hampshire NH11$863−51%$282 – $1,337
Oklahoma OK15$838−52%$838 – $1,876
Kansas KS26$777−56%$550 – $1,643
Michigan MI36$770−56%$763 – $2,228
Indiana IN16$741−58%$424 – $2,241
Tennessee TN13$723−59%$360 – $964
Kentucky KY13$619−65%$424 – $1,979
West Virginia WV14$426−76%$420 – $4,002
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,749.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care691$1,909$854 – $3,868
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access233$1,174$657 – $2,241
Ownership
For-profit88$2,011$860 – $5,131
Government176$1,388$716 – $2,782
Non-profit673$1,761$818 – $3,456
System affiliation
Part of a system730$1,894$838 – $3,536
Independent208$1,314$711 – $2,401

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,843
Median cash price$1,749
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

603 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,948 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,955; most fall between $838 and $3,343.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 603 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
$586$968$1,948$3,073$4,424

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($586 vs $4,424).

Of the 655 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 603 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

938 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,035 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted938
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,035

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrt Expl Drg/Rmvl Loose/FB Iphal Jt Ea.

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, “Opening a finger joint to drain or remove a loose body (CPT 26080) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26080-opening-a-finger-joint-to-drain-or-remove-a-loose-body