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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Partial removal of bone in fingertip

CPT 26236the billing code this page is about

Surgery to shave away or remove part of the bone in the end segment of a finger, often to treat infection or a bone lesion.

Hospitals typically charge $1,946 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,134 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,985. Most fall between $910 and $3,532 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,134
States
49
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 1,134 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
$680$1,054$1,946$3,235$5,201

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($680 vs $5,201).

How the prices are spread

$504 – $650: 38 hospitals$504$650 – $839: 103 hospitals$839 – $1,082: 93 hospitals$839$1,082 – $1,396: 106 hospitals$1,396 – $1,801: 117 hospitals$1,396$1,801 – $2,323: 186 hospitals$2,323 – $2,997: 126 hospitals$2,323$2,997 – $3,866: 137 hospitals$3,866 – $4,987: 46 hospitals$3,866$4,987 – $6,434: 72 hospitals$4,987median $1,946price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,024 of 1,134 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$504$65038
$650$839103
$839$1,08293
$1,082$1,396106
$1,396$1,801117
$1,801$2,323186
$2,323$2,997126
$2,997$3,866137
$3,866$4,98746
$4,987$6,43472

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,946
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.18×

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 $1,946.

Alaska: median $2,850 across 10 hospitalsAK$2,850Maine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $635 across 10 hospitalsNH$635Washington: median $2,372 across 42 hospitalsWA$2,372Idaho: median $2,136 across 17 hospitalsID$2,136Montana: median $1,010 across 14 hospitalsMT$1,010North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,803 across 44 hospitalsMN$1,803Illinois: median $1,798 across 35 hospitalsIL$1,798Wisconsin: median $2,344 across 51 hospitalsWI$2,344Michigan: median $2,211 across 55 hospitalsMI$2,211New York: median $1,894 across 54 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: median $2,975 across 13 hospitalsMA$2,975Oregon: median $1,481 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,481Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,086 across 36 hospitalsIA$1,086Indiana: median $555 across 29 hospitalsIN$555Ohio: median $2,693 across 34 hospitalsOH$2,693Pennsylvania: median $2,310 across 48 hospitalsPA$2,310New Jersey: median $2,136 across 35 hospitalsNJ$2,136Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,707 across 82 hospitalsCA$1,707Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,367 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,367Nebraska: median $1,585 across 25 hospitalsNE$1,585Missouri: median $1,516 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,516Kentucky: median $1,185 across 13 hospitalsKY$1,185West Virginia: median $1,868 across 20 hospitalsWV$1,868Virginia: median $1,508 across 41 hospitalsVA$1,508Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,973 across 10 hospitalsAZ$1,973New Mexico: median $1,972 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,972Kansas: median $976 across 24 hospitalsKS$976Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $692 across 25 hospitalsTN$692North Carolina: median $2,134 across 25 hospitalsNC$2,134South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,145 across 23 hospitalsOK$1,145Louisiana: median $1,850 across 19 hospitalsLA$1,850Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,025 across 15 hospitalsAL$2,025Georgia: median $2,109 across 24 hospitalsGA$2,109Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,375 across 67 hospitalsTX$2,375Florida: median $2,282 across 29 hospitalsFL$2,282
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,946. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA13$2,975+53%$1,347 – $7,271
Alaska AK10$2,850+46%$1,343 – $3,358
Ohio OH34$2,693+38%$1,079 – $5,146
Texas TX67$2,375+22%$1,607 – $4,252
Washington WA42$2,372+22%$1,026 – $3,336
Wisconsin WI51$2,344+20%$2,006 – $3,466
Pennsylvania PA48$2,310+19%$654 – $4,325
Florida FL29$2,282+17%$1,420 – $5,175
Michigan MI55$2,211+14%$910 – $3,831
Idaho ID17$2,136+10%$903 – $3,644
New Jersey NJ35$2,136+10%$1,773 – $5,339
North Carolina NC25$2,134+10%$2,043 – $3,167
Georgia GA24$2,109+8%$1,821 – $6,653
Alabama AL15$2,025+4%$1,242 – $5,595
Arizona AZ10$1,973+1%$692 – $6,000
New Mexico NM10$1,972+1%$1,191 – $2,296
New York NY54$1,894−3%$912 – $4,118
West Virginia WV20$1,868−4%$485 – $3,527
Louisiana LA19$1,850−5%$1,060 – $3,017
Minnesota MN44$1,803−7%$946 – $3,155
Illinois IL35$1,798−8%$569 – $3,677
California CA82$1,707−12%$1,277 – $3,297
Nebraska NE25$1,585−19%$1,054 – $2,049
Missouri MO21$1,516−22%$688 – $2,124
Virginia VA41$1,508−23%$715 – $2,215
Oregon OR30$1,481−24%$833 – $4,126
Colorado CO17$1,367−30%$783 – $2,814
Kentucky KY13$1,185−39%$670 – $2,079
Oklahoma OK23$1,145−41%$767 – $2,546
Iowa IA36$1,086−44%$967 – $1,525
Montana MT14$1,010−48%$603 – $1,980
Kansas KS24$976−50%$634 – $2,193
Tennessee TN25$692−64%$679 – $2,881
New Hampshire NH10$635−67%$344 – $950
Indiana IN29$555−71%$189 – $3,120
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,946.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care830$2,030$1,057 – $3,704
Children’s20$2,021$1,079 – $3,600
Critical access283$1,351$733 – $2,932
Ownership
For-profit112$2,373$1,260 – $5,363
Government208$1,569$822 – $2,797
Non-profit813$1,964$910 – $3,487
System affiliation
Part of a system900$2,007$1,010 – $3,536
Independent234$1,476$794 – $3,160

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,541
Median cash price$1,946
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

744 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,107 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,105; most fall between $1,006 and $3,457.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 744 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
$699$1,136$2,107$3,297$4,785

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($699 vs $4,785).

Of the 806 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 744 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,134 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,235 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,134
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code1,235

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 Distal 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 bone in fingertip (CPT 26236) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26236-partial-removal-of-bone-in-fingertip