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Removal of inflamed middle finger joint lining, each joint

CPT 26140the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of the diseased lining of the middle joint of a finger, including repair of the extensor tendon; billed once per joint treated.

Hospitals typically charge $1,829 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 378 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,907. Most fall between $956 and $3,649 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
378
States
43
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 378 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
$642$1,021$1,829$3,263$5,594

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($642 vs $5,594).

How the prices are spread

$510 – $650: 20 hospitals$510$650 – $828: 10 hospitals$828 – $1,055: 52 hospitals$828$1,055 – $1,344: 33 hospitals$1,344 – $1,712: 42 hospitals$1,344$1,712 – $2,181: 59 hospitals$2,181 – $2,778: 39 hospitals$2,181$2,778 – $3,538: 23 hospitals$3,538 – $4,507: 37 hospitals$3,538$4,507 – $5,741: 27 hospitals$4,507median $1,829price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (342 of 378 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$510$65020
$650$82810
$828$1,05552
$1,055$1,34433
$1,344$1,71242
$1,712$2,18159
$2,181$2,77839
$2,778$3,53823
$3,538$4,50737
$4,507$5,74127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,829
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $1,829.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,510 across 12 hospitalsWA$2,510Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $1,566 across 13 hospitalsWI$1,566Michigan: median $1,001 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,001New York: median $1,894 across 23 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,706 across 23 hospitalsOR$1,706Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,246 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,246Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,648 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,648Pennsylvania: median $348 across 14 hospitalsPA$348New Jersey: median $2,136 across 28 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,594 across 43 hospitalsCA$5,594Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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 $844 across 13 hospitalsOK$844Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,457 across 26 hospitalsTX$2,457Florida: median $2,282 across 14 hospitalsFL$2,282
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,829. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA43$5,594+206%$1,503 – $5,594
Washington WA12$2,510+37%$1,890 – $3,314
Texas TX26$2,457+34%$1,908 – $2,457
Florida FL14$2,282+25%$1,648 – $3,649
New Jersey NJ28$2,136+17%$1,773 – $5,339
New York NY23$1,894+4%$1,643 – $2,007
Oregon OR23$1,706−7%$956 – $4,274
Ohio OH13$1,648−10%$1,022 – $2,303
Wisconsin WI13$1,566−14%$1,566 – $4,482
Iowa IA17$1,246−32%$1,246 – $3,292
Michigan MI26$1,001−45%$1,001 – $2,211
Oklahoma OK13$844−54%$844 – $3,263
Pennsylvania PA14$348−81%$319 – $1,876
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $1,829.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care307$1,876$956 – $3,649
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$1,706$1,001 – $4,081
Ownership
For-profit39$1,593$656 – $3,536
Government44$1,894$1,003 – $2,797
Non-profit295$1,773$956 – $3,800
System affiliation
Part of a system317$1,885$1,001 – $3,786
Independent61$1,456$897 – $2,371

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,362
Median cash price$1,829
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

221 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,543 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,779; most fall between $879 and $3,376.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 221 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
$624$956$1,543$2,904$4,436

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($624 vs $4,436).

Of the 244 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 221 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

378 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 419 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted378
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code419

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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Synvct Prox Iphal Jt W/Xtnsr Rcnstj Ea Iphal Jt.

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 middle finger joint lining, each joint (CPT 26140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26140-removal-of-inflamed-middle-finger-joint-lining-each-joint