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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Partial removal of a finger bone

CPT 26235the billing code this page is about

Surgery to shave, hollow out, or remove part of the shaft of the first or middle bone of a finger, often done for bone infection.

Hospitals typically charge $1,771 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 520 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,877. Most fall between $894 and $3,525 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
520
States
44
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 520 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
$707$954$1,771$2,852$5,419

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($707 vs $5,419).

How the prices are spread

$519 – $664: 29 hospitals$519$664 – $851: 38 hospitals$851 – $1,089: 65 hospitals$851$1,089 – $1,394: 45 hospitals$1,394 – $1,785: 66 hospitals$1,394$1,785 – $2,285: 65 hospitals$2,285 – $2,925: 65 hospitals$2,285$2,925 – $3,745: 33 hospitals$3,745 – $4,794: 34 hospitals$3,745$4,794 – $6,138: 35 hospitals$4,794median $1,771price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (475 of 520 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$519$66429
$664$85138
$851$1,08965
$1,089$1,39445
$1,394$1,78566
$1,785$2,28565
$2,285$2,92565
$2,925$3,74533
$3,745$4,79434
$4,794$6,13835

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,771
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

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 $1,771.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 8 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 $2,872 across 23 hospitalsWA$2,872Idaho: median $2,205 across 10 hospitalsID$2,205Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,127 across 20 hospitalsMN$2,127Illinois: median $1,196 across 19 hospitalsIL$1,196Wisconsin: median $2,490 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,490Michigan: median $954 across 30 hospitalsMI$954New York: median $1,894 across 29 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,653 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,653Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,214 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,214Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,646 across 19 hospitalsOH$1,646Pennsylvania: median $891 across 23 hospitalsPA$891New Jersey: median $1,885 across 28 hospitalsNJ$1,885Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,631 across 51 hospitalsCA$2,631Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $830 across 13 hospitalsWV$830Virginia: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $819 across 13 hospitalsOK$819Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 8 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 $2,542 across 26 hospitalsTX$2,542Florida: median $2,282 across 17 hospitalsFL$2,282
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,771. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Washington WA23$2,872+62%$1,467 – $3,764
California CA51$2,631+49%$1,346 – $6,138
Texas TX26$2,542+44%$1,707 – $2,852
Wisconsin WI30$2,490+41%$1,566 – $4,373
Florida FL17$2,282+29%$1,646 – $3,525
Idaho ID10$2,205+24%$1,639 – $3,644
Minnesota MN20$2,127+20%$1,079 – $2,793
New York NY29$1,894+7%$892 – $2,007
New Jersey NJ28$1,885+6%$1,749 – $5,339
Oregon OR19$1,653−7%$927 – $4,274
Ohio OH19$1,646−7%$860 – $5,313
Iowa IA22$1,214−31%$1,214 – $1,357
Illinois IL19$1,196−33%$550 – $2,527
Michigan MI30$954−46%$938 – $2,211
Pennsylvania PA23$891−50%$324 – $2,706
West Virginia WV13$830−53%$519 – $4,166
Oklahoma OK13$819−54%$819 – $3,263
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $1,771.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care397$1,857$927 – $3,764
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access109$1,547$754 – $2,793
Ownership
For-profit47$2,282$819 – $4,436
Government73$1,455$995 – $2,401
Non-profit399$1,799$892 – $3,765
System affiliation
Part of a system424$1,885$927 – $3,644
Independent96$1,439$864 – $2,320

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,475
Median cash price$1,771
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

320 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,950 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,983; most fall between $892 and $3,560.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 320 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
$707$970$1,950$3,016$5,313

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($707 vs $5,313).

Of the 349 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 320 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

520 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 574 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted520
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code574

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 Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Partial Excision Proximal/Middle Phalanx Finger.

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, “Partial removal of a finger bone (CPT 26235) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26235-partial-removal-of-a-finger-bone