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Removal of inflamed knuckle joint lining, each finger

CPT 26135the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of the diseased lining of a knuckle joint with release of tight tissues and repair of the tendon hood; billed once per finger treated.

Hospitals typically charge $2,382 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 336 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,546. Most fall between $953 and $5,339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
336
States
44
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 336 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
$701$1,043$2,382$4,559$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($701 vs $8,742).

How the prices are spread

$516 – $685: 11 hospitals$516$685 – $909: 26 hospitals$909 – $1,206: 59 hospitals$909$1,206 – $1,601: 33 hospitals$1,601 – $2,124: 21 hospitals$1,601$2,124 – $2,819: 17 hospitals$2,819 – $3,741: 34 hospitals$2,819$3,741 – $4,964: 48 hospitals$4,964 – $6,587: 19 hospitals$4,964$6,587 – $8,742: 38 hospitals$6,587median $2,382price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (306 of 336 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$516$68511
$685$90926
$909$1,20659
$1,206$1,60133
$1,601$2,12421
$2,124$2,81917
$2,819$3,74134
$3,741$4,96448
$4,964$6,58719
$6,587$8,74238

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,382
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.71×

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 $2,382.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,014 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,014Wisconsin: median $2,782 across 13 hospitalsWI$2,782Michigan: median $1,089 across 25 hospitalsMI$1,089New York: median $3,840 across 23 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,362 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,362Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,854 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,854Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,350 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,742 across 27 hospitalsCA$8,742Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 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: 3 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $919 across 13 hospitalsOK$919Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,885 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,885Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,382. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$8,742+267%$1,756 – $8,742
New Jersey NJ30$4,350+83%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY23$3,840+61%$3,343 – $4,084
Texas TX23$2,885+21%$1,841 – $2,885
Wisconsin WI13$2,782+17%$2,782 – $4,923
Pennsylvania PA19$2,3820%$298 – $5,486
Ohio OH13$1,854−22%$1,124 – $3,553
Iowa IA17$1,362−43%$1,362 – $1,564
Michigan MI25$1,089−54%$1,089 – $1,422
Illinois IL12$1,014−57%$701 – $1,521
Oklahoma OK13$919−61%$919 – $6,615
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,382.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care279$2,794$961 – $5,664
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$1,659$976 – $4,923
Ownership
For-profit43$3,181$920 – $8,372
Government47$1,422$1,004 – $3,840
Non-profit245$2,704$953 – $5,339
System affiliation
Part of a system271$2,782$953 – $5,741
Independent65$1,525$966 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,172
Median cash price$2,382
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,362 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,032; most fall between $858 and $6,987.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 187 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
$619$919$1,362$4,545$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($619 vs $8,742).

Of the 206 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 187 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

336 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 372 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted336
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code372

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

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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 inflamed knuckle joint lining, each finger (CPT 26135) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26135-removal-of-inflamed-knuckle-joint-lining-each-finger