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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of tight palm tissue, palm only

CPT 26121the billing code this page is about

Surgery to cut out thickened fascia in the palm, as in Dupuytren contracture, limited to the palm, and may include skin rearrangement or a skin graft.

Hospitals typically charge $2,488 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 644 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,768. Most fall between $1,170 and $5,585 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
644
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 644 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
$919$1,371$2,488$4,501$8,496

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($919 vs $8,496).

How the prices are spread

$665 – $874: 24 hospitals$665$874 – $1,148: 69 hospitals$1,148 – $1,509: 81 hospitals$1,148$1,509 – $1,984: 68 hospitals$1,984 – $2,608: 53 hospitals$1,984$2,608 – $3,428: 60 hospitals$3,428 – $4,505: 96 hospitals$3,428$4,505 – $5,922: 43 hospitals$5,922 – $7,783: 40 hospitals$5,922$7,783 – $10,230: 46 hospitals$7,783median $2,488price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (580 of 644 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$665$87424
$874$1,14869
$1,148$1,50981
$1,509$1,98468
$1,984$2,60853
$2,608$3,42860
$3,428$4,50596
$4,505$5,92243
$5,922$7,78340
$7,783$10,23046

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,488
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.74×

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 $2,488.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,193 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,193New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,633 across 12 hospitalsWA$1,633Idaho: median $3,399 across 14 hospitalsID$3,399Montana: 8 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 $2,497 across 32 hospitalsMN$2,497Illinois: median $1,485 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,485Wisconsin: median $3,173 across 34 hospitalsWI$3,173Michigan: median $1,664 across 34 hospitalsMI$1,664New York: median $3,840 across 35 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,009 across 16 hospitalsOR$2,009Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $1,474 across 33 hospitalsIA$1,474Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,010 across 17 hospitalsOH$2,010Pennsylvania: median $1,575 across 19 hospitalsPA$1,575New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,286 across 52 hospitalsCA$2,286Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,901 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,901Missouri: median $3,494 across 16 hospitalsMO$3,494Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,779 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,779Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,616 across 15 hospitalsKS$1,616Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $994 across 14 hospitalsOK$994Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 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 $4,044 across 32 hospitalsTX$4,044Florida: median $4,177 across 16 hospitalsFL$4,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,488. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+74%$3,594 – $5,419
Florida FL16$4,177+68%$3,257 – $5,458
Texas TX32$4,044+63%$1,988 – $4,524
New York NY35$3,840+54%$1,414 – $3,884
Missouri MO16$3,494+40%$1,088 – $11,414
Idaho ID14$3,399+37%$1,220 – $8,372
Wisconsin WI34$3,173+28%$2,758 – $6,278
Minnesota MN32$2,4970%$1,660 – $4,486
California CA52$2,286−8%$1,472 – $9,789
Ohio OH17$2,010−19%$1,461 – $12,382
Oregon OR16$2,009−19%$1,126 – $2,293
Nebraska NE15$1,901−24%$1,301 – $4,501
West Virginia WV17$1,779−29%$628 – $3,800
Michigan MI34$1,664−33%$1,157 – $3,173
Washington WA12$1,633−34%$1,138 – $6,793
Kansas KS15$1,616−35%$936 – $3,181
Pennsylvania PA19$1,575−37%$308 – $5,486
Illinois IL21$1,485−40%$953 – $4,871
Iowa IA33$1,474−41%$1,265 – $1,687
Vermont VT10$1,193−52%$832 – $1,567
Oklahoma OK14$994−60%$994 – $5,822
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $2,488.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care470$3,139$1,304 – $6,114
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access166$1,688$1,012 – $3,758
Ownership
For-profit77$3,884$1,894 – $7,587
Government116$1,743$1,170 – $3,840
Non-profit451$2,575$1,131 – $5,626
System affiliation
Part of a system504$2,884$1,198 – $5,793
Independent140$1,988$1,092 – $4,523

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,082
Median cash price$2,488
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

335 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,946 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,358; most fall between $994 and $5,038.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 335 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
$812$1,092$1,946$4,486$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($812 vs $8,372).

Of the 367 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 335 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

644 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 705 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted644
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code705

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 Fasct Palm W/WO Z-Plasty Tissue Reargmt/Skn Grft.

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, “Removal of tight palm tissue, palm only (CPT 26121) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26121-removal-of-tight-palm-tissue-palm-only