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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Removal of an implant from the hand or finger

CPT 26320the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out hardware or a device, such as a pin, plate, or joint implant, previously placed in the hand or a finger.

Hospitals typically charge $1,712 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 664 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,801. Most fall between $660 and $3,896 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
664
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 664 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
$434$733$1,712$3,378$5,568

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($434 vs $5,568).

How the prices are spread

$340 – $455: 35 hospitals$340$455 – $608: 44 hospitals$608 – $813: 64 hospitals$608$813 – $1,088: 89 hospitals$1,088 – $1,455: 33 hospitals$1,088$1,455 – $1,946: 93 hospitals$1,946 – $2,603: 54 hospitals$1,946$2,603 – $3,481: 61 hospitals$3,481 – $4,656: 49 hospitals$3,481$4,656 – $6,228: 76 hospitals$4,656median $1,712price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (598 of 664 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$340$45535
$455$60844
$608$81364
$813$1,08889
$1,088$1,45533
$1,455$1,94693
$1,946$2,60354
$2,603$3,48161
$3,481$4,65649
$4,656$6,22876

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,712
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.01×

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 $1,712.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 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 $1,576 across 27 hospitalsWA$1,576Idaho: median $2,575 across 15 hospitalsID$2,575Montana: 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 $1,972 across 19 hospitalsMN$1,972Illinois: median $1,072 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,072Wisconsin: median $1,712 across 40 hospitalsWI$1,712Michigan: median $1,864 across 25 hospitalsMI$1,864New York: median $1,917 across 35 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: median $5,031 across 14 hospitalsMA$5,031Oregon: median $1,178 across 20 hospitalsOR$1,178Nevada: 5 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 $857 across 31 hospitalsIA$857Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,610 across 27 hospitalsOH$4,610Pennsylvania: median $1,681 across 23 hospitalsPA$1,681New Jersey: median $1,908 across 31 hospitalsNJ$1,908Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,553 across 78 hospitalsCA$2,553Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,826 across 11 hospitalsMO$1,826Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $924 across 16 hospitalsWV$924Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $571 across 18 hospitalsOK$571Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,048 across 31 hospitalsTX$3,048Florida: median $1,066 across 16 hospitalsFL$1,066
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,712. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA14$5,031+194%$1,430 – $5,031
Ohio OH27$4,610+169%$709 – $4,844
Texas TX31$3,048+78%$1,650 – $3,294
Idaho ID15$2,575+50%$805 – $4,347
California CA78$2,553+49%$733 – $5,790
Minnesota MN19$1,972+15%$604 – $2,314
New York NY35$1,917+12%$685 – $2,062
New Jersey NJ31$1,908+11%$600 – $5,339
Michigan MI25$1,864+9%$669 – $2,862
Missouri MO11$1,826+7%$574 – $6,268
Wisconsin WI40$1,7120%$938 – $1,864
Pennsylvania PA23$1,681−2%$230 – $3,053
Washington WA27$1,576−8%$816 – $3,588
Oregon OR20$1,178−31%$660 – $4,469
Illinois IL21$1,072−37%$522 – $1,874
Florida FL16$1,066−38%$945 – $5,147
West Virginia WV16$924−46%$373 – $1,969
Iowa IA31$857−50%$682 – $1,078
Oklahoma OK18$571−67%$571 – $1,511
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $1,712.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care499$1,900$685 – $4,723
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access148$1,063$620 – $2,244
Ownership
For-profit63$2,403$741 – $5,288
Government110$1,063$649 – $2,924
Non-profit491$1,795$660 – $3,986
System affiliation
Part of a system525$1,864$685 – $4,453
Independent139$1,161$632 – $2,661

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,411
Median cash price$1,712
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

400 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,511 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,773; most fall between $660 and $3,758.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 400 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
$433$733$1,511$3,378$5,031

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($433 vs $5,031).

Of the 434 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 400 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

664 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 724 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted664
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code724

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Implant From Finger/Hand.

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 an implant from the hand or finger (CPT 26320) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26320-removal-of-an-implant-from-the-hand-or-finger