HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of small deep soft tissue growth in hand or finger

CPT 26116the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a soft tissue tumor or vascular malformation lying beneath the fascia in the hand or a finger, measuring less than 1.5 cm.

Hospitals typically charge $1,810 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 723 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,003. Most fall between $877 and $4,085 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
723
States
48
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 723 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
$708$987$1,810$3,515$5,110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($708 vs $5,110).

How the prices are spread

$554 – $713: 37 hospitals$554$713 – $917: 82 hospitals$917 – $1,179: 79 hospitals$917$1,179 – $1,517: 67 hospitals$1,517 – $1,952: 93 hospitals$1,517$1,952 – $2,510: 69 hospitals$2,510 – $3,229: 71 hospitals$2,510$3,229 – $4,154: 65 hospitals$4,154 – $5,343: 54 hospitals$4,154$5,343 – $6,873: 34 hospitals$5,343median $1,810price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (651 of 723 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$554$71337
$713$91782
$917$1,17979
$1,179$1,51767
$1,517$1,95293
$1,952$2,51069
$2,510$3,22971
$3,229$4,15465
$4,154$5,34354
$5,343$6,87334

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,810
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $1,810.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 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 $706 across 10 hospitalsNH$706Washington: median $1,973 across 20 hospitalsWA$1,973Idaho: median $2,575 across 14 hospitalsID$2,575Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,851 across 26 hospitalsMN$1,851Illinois: median $1,625 across 26 hospitalsIL$1,625Wisconsin: median $2,991 across 33 hospitalsWI$2,991Michigan: median $1,014 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,014New York: median $1,687 across 39 hospitalsNY$1,687Massachusetts: median $3,509 across 13 hospitalsMA$3,509Oregon: median $1,123 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,123Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,294 across 28 hospitalsIA$1,294Indiana: median $607 across 12 hospitalsIN$607Ohio: median $1,956 across 28 hospitalsOH$1,956Pennsylvania: median $1,409 across 27 hospitalsPA$1,409New Jersey: median $1,908 across 32 hospitalsNJ$1,908Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,718 across 59 hospitalsCA$1,718Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,732 across 18 hospitalsCO$2,732Nebraska: median $1,140 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,140Missouri: median $1,646 across 18 hospitalsMO$1,646Kentucky: median $1,034 across 13 hospitalsKY$1,034West Virginia: median $1,969 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,969Virginia: median $3,000 across 24 hospitalsVA$3,000Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,028 across 11 hospitalsKS$1,028Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $587 across 10 hospitalsTN$587North Carolina: median $1,954 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,954South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,105 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,105Louisiana: median $1,632 across 12 hospitalsLA$1,632Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $1,583 across 11 hospitalsAL$1,583Georgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,890 across 32 hospitalsTX$2,890Florida: median $2,305 across 23 hospitalsFL$2,305
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,810. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA13$3,509+94%$1,430 – $4,198
Virginia VA24$3,000+66%$837 – $4,358
Wisconsin WI33$2,991+65%$2,281 – $4,293
Texas TX32$2,890+60%$1,745 – $4,686
Colorado CO18$2,732+51%$1,103 – $4,371
Idaho ID14$2,575+42%$975 – $3,570
Florida FL23$2,305+27%$1,752 – $5,550
Washington WA20$1,973+9%$1,007 – $3,078
West Virginia WV11$1,969+9%$1,429 – $4,119
Ohio OH28$1,956+8%$699 – $6,137
North Carolina NC10$1,954+8%$1,133 – $3,892
New Jersey NJ32$1,908+5%$1,771 – $5,339
Minnesota MN26$1,851+2%$1,161 – $2,490
California CA59$1,718−5%$832 – $4,110
New York NY39$1,687−7%$857 – $1,960
Missouri MO18$1,646−9%$818 – $4,979
Louisiana LA12$1,632−10%$830 – $3,100
Illinois IL26$1,625−10%$690 – $2,910
Alabama AL11$1,583−13%$1,474 – $3,793
Pennsylvania PA27$1,409−22%$325 – $2,739
Iowa IA28$1,294−29%$1,056 – $1,476
Nebraska NE14$1,140−37%$786 – $2,580
Oregon OR16$1,123−38%$987 – $1,759
Oklahoma OK14$1,105−39%$1,105 – $3,303
Kentucky KY13$1,034−43%$607 – $1,168
Kansas KS11$1,028−43%$878 – $1,453
Michigan MI33$1,014−44%$839 – $2,271
New Hampshire NH10$706−61%$425 – $1,240
Indiana IN12$607−66%$581 – $1,375
Tennessee TN10$587−68%$492 – $2,955
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,810.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care543$1,917$916 – $4,157
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access169$1,383$839 – $2,991
Ownership
For-profit71$2,575$1,165 – $4,894
Government131$1,484$905 – $2,513
Non-profit520$1,899$865 – $4,110
System affiliation
Part of a system554$1,960$905 – $4,110
Independent169$1,453$855 – $2,595

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,696
Median cash price$1,810
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

397 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,575 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,829; most fall between $811 and $3,700.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 397 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
$607$856$1,575$2,992$4,358

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($607 vs $4,358).

Of the 436 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 397 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 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

723 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 796 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted723
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code796

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 Exc Tum/Vas Mal Sft Tis Hand/Fngr Subfasc<1.5cm.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Removal of small deep soft tissue growth in hand or finger (CPT 26116) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26116-removal-of-small-deep-soft-tissue-growth-in-hand-or-finger